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Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011 (closed)
« on: December 04, 2011, 09:26:28 AM »
Welcome to the Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011!

Voting begins now, Sunday December 4, and ends at 11:59 p.m. central time Wednesday December 14.

Mr. Wiggum counts the votes and franksolich writes the awards; there is an ironclad wall between the two of us involving these functions, neither knowing exactly what’s going to happen until it happens.  Mr. Wiggum and I like some excitement too, and if we both knew all, there’d be no excitement for us.

One may publicly vote on this thread, or on the Official Voting Thread at the brother site, or one may vote privately via e-mail to Mr. Wiggum at cu_ralphwiggum@yahoo.com.  The voting is open to all members of conservativeunderground and conservativecave, and to all regular commenters on P-J Comix’s most-excellent DUmmie Funnies, although in the third instance, one can only vote via e-mail.

The votes are counted by Mr. Wiggum between December 14, and December 24, and the awards are written and given out by franksolich between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, generally two of them per day.  It all makes for a very festive Christmas season.

After one has voted, but it’s still before the deadline of December 14, and one wishes to change one’s votes, one is free to do so.  However, one must explicitly state that it is a change, an alteration, from how one has voted before, so as to ameliorate any problems with the counting.

If you change your votes, make it clear you’re changing your votes.

Tentatively, the schedule is this:

24 December—top Dummies #11-20 (one thread)
25 December—the Willie
25 December—the newbie
25 December—the broken elbow
25 December—the golden bong
26 December—top DUmmie #10
26 December—top DUmmie #09
27 December—top DUmmie #08
27 December—top DUmmie #07
28 December—top DUmmie #06
28 December—top DUmmie #05
29 December—top DUmmie #04
29 December—top DUmmie #03
30 December—top DUmmie #02
31 December—top DUmmie of 2011
« Last Edit: December 15, 2011, 12:01:00 AM by franksolich »
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2011, 09:29:26 AM »
It is with some regret that franksolich had to exercise his own judgement and disqualify some nominees for the special awards (but NOT nominees for the top Dummies) because they didn’t meet the criteria for the award.

The most-common deletions were for the newbie award, in which DUmmies who had in fact been recognized in past years were eliminated—the award is for DUmmies never heard of, or never paid attention to, prior to this past year; new names.

cali was nominated a few times for the golden bong award, but deleted because what cali did, all cali did, during the past year, she was utterly credible; there was no instance of her making something up, and the award is for DUmmies indulging in creative story-telling—in other words, lying or stretching the truth, usually so as to make the individual DUmmie look good.

cali is remembered for having gotten herself fired from her occasional part-time job—and because of a DUmmie, no less—but that was no bouncy, no made-up tale.  That was cali sticking her foot into her mouth, with less-than-desirable consequences to herself.  Perhaps next year there can be a foot-in-the-mouth award, but this year there isn’t.

Tavener was more of a grey area, for the broken elbow award, which is given the DUmmie who drove one nuts the most with his or her whining and complaining the past year; a DUmmie who really got on one’s nerves, all the bitching and moaning he or she did.

The drug-addled freeloading Taverner has been many things this past year, but one is hard-pressed to describe him as a “whiner,” he’s just overwhelmingly a drug-addled freeloading DUmmie.  He doesn’t even come near to the bawling and griping of the other DUmmies nominated for this award.

As unqualified DUmmies could dilute votes for qualified DUmmies, franksolich on his own did this; if anyone has any complaints, bring down the wrath upon franksolich’s, and only franksolich’s, shoulders.
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2011, 09:30:39 AM »
For the Willie, the award given the DUmmie who’s done the most, throughout this year and past years, to enhance the reputation and good name of democraticunderground (i.e., a primitive who made Skins’s island look good, real good):

VOTE FOR ONE:

911 forum
Alan Grayson
Andy Stephenson
atheist forum
cali
CaliforniaPeggy
Eferrari
hippywife
Israel/Palestinian forum
lonestarnot
nadinbrzezinski
Omaha Steve
ProudDad
Raven
Redstone
sabrina 1
Skinner, EarlG, Elad
spooked911
Stinky the Clown
Sub Atomic
Taverner
underground panther
warpy
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2011, 09:31:42 AM »
For the newbie, the award given a DUmmie who hasn’t ever heretofore been noticed by decent and civilized people; a new face, or at least a mug that’s been around for a while, but hasn’t ever been in any of the Top DUmmie awards past years:

VOTE FOR ONE:

coalition_unwilling
farleftfist
fire_walk_with_me
iverglas
malaise
MiddleFingerMom
snoutport
socialist_in_TN
Sub Atomic
white_wolf
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2011, 09:32:55 AM »
For the broken elbow, the award given the DUmmie who’s most grated on one, gotten on one’s nerves, by his or her constant whining, complaining, moaning, bitching, carrying on:

VOTE FOR ONE:

bobbolink
Cyrano
demtenjeep
Firebrand Gary
Horse With no Name
mopinko
nadinbrzezinski
Omaha Steve
PCIntern
snoutport
Stinky the Clown
Sub Atomic
Systematic Chaos
The Straight Story
ThomWV
WCGreen
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2011, 09:34:05 AM »
For the golden bouncy, the award given the DUmmie who wrote the most entertaining, the least credible bouncy, or bouncies, during this past year, 2011:

VOTE FOR ONE:

11bravo
Dreamer Tatum
Horse With no Name
nadinbrzezinski
PCIntern
rsmith6621
Sarah Ibarruri
snoutport
Sub Atomic
Twix Voy
underground panther
wiley50
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2011, 09:35:49 AM »
And finally, for the Top DUmmies of 2011; there’s two standards one can use when voting—(a) a primitive who especially impressed one, for any reason or reasons, during 2011 or (b) a primitive who’s usually been pretty reticent in past years, but it’s about time the primitive got recognized and rewarded for his or her yeoman’s work:

VOTE FOR TEN:

note: incumbents in bold

Atman
bobbolink (#04 top DUmmie)
cali
cbayer
Chan790
Cyrano (#18 top DUmmie)
DainBramaged (#07 top DUmmie)
DemoTex
Eferrari (#03 top DUmmie)
grasswire
Horse With no Name
iverglas
Judi Lynn
kentuck (#13 top DUmmie)
kpete
Larry R. Burks
mike_c
Mineral Man (#19 top DUmmie)
nadinbrzezinski (#17 top DUmmie)
NNN0LHI
Omaha Steve
progressiveinaction
Proud2BlibKansan (top DUmmie)
Raven
Sarah Ibarruri
SidDithers
Skinner, EarlG, Elad
Stinky the Clown (#02 top DUmmie)
Sub Atomic
Tavener (#14 top DUmmie)
The Straight Story
ThomWV
underground panther (#09 top DUmmie)
W8liftinglady
William Pitt
« Last Edit: December 04, 2011, 09:46:36 AM by franksolich »
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2011, 10:09:41 AM »
Asking for a clarification Frank and if this was explained earlier and I missed it my apologies.

Is the voting going to be counted as a total or are we to vote for individual slots?
My thinking is that while I would consider the dude worthy of a position I don`t think he should be DUmmy of the year but if he gets the most mentions he will be unless the votes are specified for a distinct position.

No matter regardless but will affect how many votes a person may decide to cast.

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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2011, 10:13:52 AM »
Asking for a clarification Frank and if this was explained earlier and I missed it my apologies.

Is the voting going to be counted as a total or are we to vote for individual slots?
My thinking is that while I would consider the dude worthy of a position I don`t think he should be DUmmy of the year but if he gets the most mentions he will be unless the votes are specified for a distinct position.

No matter regardless but will affect how many votes a person may decide to cast.

You didn't miss anything, sir.

One votes for one each in the special awards.

One votes for ten in the Top DUmmies.

Votes for the Top DUmmies are simply totalled, nothing more.

One doesn't "rank" DUmmies when voting for them; one just votes for ten, and leaves it go at that.

A DUmmie's rank in the top ten depends upon its total votes overall.

This is the way it's aways been done; there's been talk before of having voters "rank" DUmmies, but that's a great deal of time and trouble in counting.
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2011, 10:25:16 AM »

I'll open the voting, sir, as an example.

These are my votes for the Top DUmmies; I'll cast votes for the special awards later:

Cyrano
DainBramaged
Horse With no Name
iverglas
mike_c
NNN0LHI
Omaha Steve
Proud2BLibKansan
Stinky the Clown
Taverner

Notice, please, I didn't rank them; this is just a list of primitives I found especially remarkable during 2011.

And notice also there's a "strategy" here; I of course think Doug's stupid ex-wife and the yenta were remarkable in 2011, but I'm not voting for them as top primitives; I'll be voting for them for one of the special awards.
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2011, 10:46:14 AM »
After partaking of a biscuit/pancake and sausage breakfast at the local American Legion hall with several of my brothers and some of their families, I find that the election is in full swing. As this is my first ever DUmmy Awards referendum I am exercising my right to vote, as qauranteed by franchise, the mere fact that I have joined the CC.

For the Willie, my choice (and I pray to the heavens above it's her only award):

nadinbrzezinski

Who has kept us so wonderfully informed of any and all disasters right up the the most vile and DUmmy humiliating, the Occupy movement. Too bad that nads couldn't actually stay at the OSD encampment for any overnights. But she kept in touch by twitter and was able to propagate several rumors that fizzled before her (and our) very eyes.

For the newbie

fire_walk_with_me

Could this n00b be nads' twin? Maybe a deep cover sockpuppet of nads? Who knows, she seemed to be in an almost mechanical lockstep with nads on a lot of nads' disaster OPs.

For the broken elbow

Omaha Steve

To me, there is only one choice. Plus it may be possible for the Weeping Husker to garner a repeat next year as he whines like a electric motor with a bad bearing following his sure to be third place finish in a two man race in Bellvue NE city council elections next Fall.

For the golden bouncy

Sarah Ibarruri

What can one say. Put off as I am that she never successfully concluded her tale of woe, touched with a bit of sexual one upmanship, about her Rethug Boyfriend that was so good to her and a regular stud in bed, I cast my vote for Sarah because when the Rethug Boyfriend saga stopped, we saw her cheerleading the NAGs.

for the Top DUmmies of 2011 (In no particular order of distaste.)

cali For wallduding herself after bragging about the Foo-Foo Teahouse, then dragging her butt down a sodden lane when she broke her leg in an obvious drunken adventure at home.

cbayer No. 1 thread killer. Nobody can kill a thread like cbayer, the thread slayer.

DainBramaged An idiot, extraordinaire. What more can I say.

grasswire Exactly how many coats can one woman wear while shuffling down the streets of Milwaukie pulling a little red wagon? Hey, grasswire! How's the Pie Shop coming along?

Horse With no Name Did your idiot kid get a job yet? When can I get an appointment to have someone's dick inspected at the trailer? I got to avenge some things.

mike_c No Comment.

Omaha Steve Whiny b*stard. Make sure you brag about this award in your campaign pamphlet.

Raven Only because your drolling, slacked jawed kid could barely get himself a sympathy nomination. Hey! Get a new job yet?

W8liftinglady You only get my vote because some unterprimitivem mentioned me in your weak-assed shoutout thread at the DUmp. And you were another of the nads appreciation gang, what I call the NAGS. So, how did the trial go with you vandalizing daughter?

The Straight Story Not just another slobbering milquetoast, but a slobbering milquetoast with no talent!

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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2011, 10:49:07 AM »
I am exercising my right to vote, as qauranteed by franchise, the mere fact that I have joined the CC.
Voting is open to guests and non-members as well. :tongue:

one may vote privately via e-mail to Mr. Wiggum at cu_ralphwiggum@yahoo.com. 





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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2011, 10:56:47 AM »
Voting is open to guests and non-members as well. :tongue:






TY chris_, I agree.

I was explaining my participation, others may do as they please.

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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2011, 11:46:39 AM »
And as always Diebold will be counting the votes.
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2011, 12:28:36 PM »
And as always Diebold will be counting the votes.

Now, Mr. Wiggum makes Abe Lincoln look dishonest.
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #15 on: December 04, 2011, 12:34:27 PM »

Now that, sir, is a most excellent presentation of votes.  Congratulations!

By the way, as with the nomination thread, campaigning for a certain primitive for a certain award is eminently allowable, although by the time we reach this point, it's pretty late in the day.  It's okay though.

But remember to clearly delineate one's votes from other comments. 

Neither Mr. Wiggum nor franksolich like hanging chads; we like the votes to be plainly obvious.
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #16 on: December 04, 2011, 12:42:15 PM »
I think it's very fishy that nadin is absent from the DUmp this weekend.

Knowing full well when the polls open, and knowing that decent and civilized people will vote early and often, she's trying to skew
vote totals away from her candidacy, despite being clearly the most contemptible DUmpmonkey since TiT's heyday.

She's decided the embarrassment of winning Top DUmmy outweighs the attention it will command.

It's understandable. Would you want to be mentioned in the same breath with Ann Pritchett, Pam Dawson, and TiT?

Vote nadin. Trust me, I know.

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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #17 on: December 04, 2011, 01:07:54 PM »
Is campaigning so close to the polls allowed?  :lmao:

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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2011, 01:09:22 PM »
Is campaigning so close to the polls allowed?  :lmao:

Until 11:59 p.m. central time, Wednesday, December 14, it is.

But it's kind of late in the day.

Usually the "campaigning"'s done on the nomination thread, but it's okay here too--but remember when voting, to clearly state one's voting, not just commenting.
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #19 on: December 04, 2011, 02:44:59 PM »
I'm going to do a little last-minute campaigning on behalf of one of my pet favorites this year:

NNN0LHI--Don, the grouchy old primitive, from Chicago.

Don, who's 58, almost 59, years old, is a former autoworker who retired at the age of 48 years, having spent the requisite 30 years working the assembly lines.  That's a little early to retire, and most don't have that luxury, but no need to begrudge Don; he followed the rules, kept his nose clean.

Don had anticipated 30, 40, years of living in retired luxury; after all, his pension was good.

But ten years after retirement, Don's finding his modest house in Chicago is costing him more in local property taxes per month, than what his whole mortgage ever amounted to.  It's very possible if property taxes in Chicago keep increasing at the same pace, by the time Don's 68, a mere twenty years after he retired with a good pension, he'll either be homeless or have to take a job greeting customers at Wal-Mart, to pay those taxes.

And that's just Don's taxes regarding his real-estate; other local, county, and state taxes in Illinois continue skyrocketing, and Don's pretty much giving the machine as much money as he's keeping himself.

But it's Don's own fault.

Ever since he got to vote about forty years ago, Don's been a hearty and stalwart supporter of the machine; he figured if he'd take care of the machine, the machine'd take care of him.

Oooops.  The machine's not taking care of Don in his approaching old age.

One wonders what's up with that.

There is however an element of humor in Don's predicament.  Actually two.  For one, Don persists in blaming the Republicans of Chicago and Cook County and Illinois for his problems, as if the Republicans there had any say in how things are run.

The other is that Don, in his approaching old age with its flawed nostalgia, constantly confuses the hard times of the 1970s with Ronald Reagan and the Republicans, and the good times of the 1980s with Jimmy Carter and the Democrats.

So this is my plea to other voters to help me in electing grouchy old Don one of the top primitives of 2011; he's long overdue for the honor.
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #20 on: December 04, 2011, 05:17:20 PM »
No use delaying.

I'll get the vote out there and maybe influence a vote or two with my nominee's.

Willie- Redstone, posthumously.

newbie- MiddleFingerMom- Male living in AZ. This guy is truly certifiable.

broken elbow
- Systematic Chaos- Changing my vote here. He hasn't mentioned Jeanette in a while now.

golden bouncy- snoutport- His bird on a stretcher is the best in years. it should be in the DUmbass hall of fame.

Top DUmmies of 2011
- I'm going to limit it to the top 5. The also rans can fight it out amongst themselves.

5-DainBramaged

4- Taverner

3- Stinkythe Clown (He needs to pick it up next year)

2- Horse with no brain (If her offspring would register, she would be a hands down winner of the newbie)

1- Omaha Ed Norton- He began his campaign for this award before last years college Bowl games were played.

(later, on edit)

I have reconsidered and have decided to add the following 5 DUmmies to my DOTY selection.

6- Sarah Ibarruri- Conservative play toy.

7- snoutport

8- Iverglas- Disbarred canadian lawyer and gun grabber.

9- SidDithers

10- Beth
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #21 on: December 04, 2011, 06:04:35 PM »
Could someone please refresh my feeble memory on which DUmmy it was a few months back that was revealed to have claimed membership in almost every conceivable religion that there is over a period of just a few short years?
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #22 on: December 04, 2011, 06:34:10 PM »
Willie- Redstone, posthumously.

You know, Tucker, sir, next year, in the manner of corporations that attach their names to football bowl games, this annual contest will be the "Redstone Memorial Top DUmmies of 2012," and for every year thereafter, in commemoration of the Great Primitive Ever, to habituate Skins's island.

The late Chief S itting Bull is truly worthy of the Willie, but one is compelled to think things over.

Now, the Bostonian Drunkard, bobbolink, and TomInTit aren't eligible for the Willie, having won it in past years.

The list of candidates for this year's Willie is outstanding, but one name stands above them all.

And thus I'm compelled to cast my vote for EFerrari for the Willie.

As most here know, Doug's stupid ex-wife and franksolich go back a long way, and so intimately. 

The purpose of the Willie is to reward a primitive who's done a great deal--not only this year, but in all past years--to enhance the reputation and good name of Skins's island.

EFerrari, first as sfexpat2000 and then as EFerrari, has thus far garnered circa half a million comments on Skins's island, despite that she joined late, in November 2004, after the presidential election of that year.  Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe she's the all-time champion poster there.

And it was remarkable how she, in just a few short months, had Skins, EarlG, and Elad wrapped around her little finger; they did everything she wanted them to do, and she wanted them to do a lot of things.  It was as if she had some sort of "power" over them, a power no primitive, other than collectively the unhappy gay primitives, has ever had.  EFerrari can get away with anything on Skins's island.

There was the Scamdal of May, June, July 2005, her ill-fated and much-publicized attempt to get some bucks to rescue her mother's real-estate from its mire of debt, and perhaps probably to pay some of the expenses involved with her then-husband, and the subsequent divorce.  The illness of the late red round one was the superficial excuse, but really, the scam was for this other thing.

Even though she came out of that looking like an idiot, EFerrari has since then gone on with no shame, no embarrassment, at all, as if the Scamdal hadn't happened.  Her activities on Skins's island still persist, covering a wider range of terrain than before.

But there's something else here; a personal plea.  To me, it seems important that EFerrari get the Willie this year, because the cerebral deterioration in her--she chomps down handfuls of mood-altering pharmaceuticals like most people dine on popcorn--has been showing for quite some time. 

If she has to wait until next year to win the Willie, it might be too late, all of her cerebral veins permanently petrified and fossilized.  I think it would be good for EFerrari to get the award while she's still at least slightly compos mentis, so she can understand she's won an award, and the prestige and honor connected with it.

Giving an award to a person on the other side of senility seems a little bit cold.
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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #23 on: December 04, 2011, 07:20:06 PM »
I'm unsure about any rumors as to a suicide or not. It really doesn't matter. Redstone was a powder keg waiting to explode. There was an aneurysm with his name all over it. He was dead before the body knew when to lay down.

Beth's stupidity isn't going anywhere. She will be in the running for years to come.

Besides, it's not nice to pick on the mentally challenged.
Come to think of it, unions do create jobs. Companies have to hire two workers to do the work of one.

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Re: Official Voting Thread for the Top DUmmies of 2011
« Reply #24 on: December 04, 2011, 07:25:35 PM »
Beth's stupidity isn't going anywhere. She will be in the running for years to come.

Besides, it's not nice to pick on the mentally challenged.

By the way, I'm not trying to get you to change your vote; as I said, it's a good vote, a great vote, and the late Chief S itting Bull's a stellar candidate for the Willie.

But given your comment, I thought it would be good for me, on my side, to argue the "humanitarian" angle of voting for my candidate, to tug at heart-strings reminding other voters that next year might be too late for Beth, that by next year she'll probably be totally gaga and unable to appreciate the award.
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