A most happy and wonderful Thanksgiving to all, when one gives thanks to God for all that one has!
This is the sixth year of the TOP DUmmies OF xxxx, and most already know the way it goes here.
The ballot, and the rules for voting, will be on the "official voting thread for the TOP DUmmies OF 2010" which quite reasonably is posted after the nominations have closed.
This thread is about nominations only, and will remain open until 11:00 p.m. central time, 10:00 p.m. mountain time, Saturday, December 4, 2010, after which it is locked to further nominations and comments.
The official voting thread will then be launched some time on Sunday, December 5, 2010.
One may make as many nominations as one wishes to make.
It goes without saying that if one explains or describes or analyzes or justifies his nominations--rather than just listing them (which is okay)--the better the chances are that one's primitives are going to pick up votes.
One does not have to make all nominations in only one comment; as this thread runs for ten days, one has a prime opportunity to add, amend, or delete his own nominations at whim.
All nominations must be public nominations, made out in the open for all to see; it is only in the voting that one has a choice between a publicly-seen ballot and a secret ballot.
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Last year, giving into widespread raucous public clamor, we added a new category, the "Lifetime Achievement Award", naming a DUmmie who has done yeoman's work for the good reputation of DUmmieland since its foundation in January 2001.
Since "Lifetime Achievement Award" does considerable wear-and-tear to the keys on the keyboard, this award has now been shortened to the "Willie Award," or simply, the "Willie."
Our esteemed colleague Mr. Wiggum and franksolich chose last year's winner (not because of any anti-democratic motives, but simply because of the constraints of time), the lying tits primitive, the long-mausoleumed "TomInTib" primitive, which proved not a universally-popular decision, as it seems most had preferred the Bostonian Drunkard instead.
The problem was, the Bostonian Drunkard was not even nominated for a Top Primitive of 2009, which was certainly the first time he was ever overlooked in any compilation of the TOP DUmmies.
This year, besides everyone and anyone voting for the TOP DUmmies OF 2010, everyone and anyone will be allowed to nominate and vote for the recipient of the Willie.
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There is a new award this year, too, the "DUmmie Most Likely to Succeed," a take-off on high-school politics--which DUmmie is most likely to succeed at being a DUmmie?
This category will take some rather contorted mental gymnastics, some violent flip-flopping.
Usually, to succeed at something, if for something good, is praiseworthy. That is the way it is in the real world.
However, in the kuckenkuckensheim world of the DUmmies, "success" is what passes for "failure" in the real world.
While DUmmies call such of their own "winners," decent and civilized people call them "losers."
And so which DUmmie is most likely to succeed.....in being one of life's losers, because of his irredeemable intolerance, bigotry, Hate, anger, rage, bitterness, wilful ignorance?
As with the Willie, since the "DUmmie Most Likely to Succeed (at being a DUmmie)" wears the ink off the keys on the keyboard, this award is shortened to the "Annie Award," or simply, the Annie.
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If a particular DUmmie wins both a place in the TOP DUmmies OF 2010, and one, or both, of these special awards. launching of the latter for public consumption will be in the order one has been chosen a TOP DUmmie OF 2010.
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As most know, man proposes, God disposes, but anyway, this is the hoped-for schedule:
nominations: Thanksgiving Eve through December 4
voting: December 5 through December 14
Top DUmmies 20-11 launched sometime on Christmas Eve (one thread)
"Mrs. Alfred Packer does Christmas" launched on Christmas Day
the Willie (if not also a TOP DUmmie OF 2010) launched on Christmas Day
the Annie (if not also a TOP DUmmie of 2010) launched on Christmas Day
Top DUmmies 10-2 launched beginning December 26 (separate threads for each) through December 30
The TOP DUmmie OF 2010 launched the afternoon of New Year's Eve
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Now that one's read the long version of the rules, the Reader's Digest condensed version:
(a) nominate primitives for the TOP DUmmies OF 2010
(b) nominate primitives for the Willie and the Annie
