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Current Events => The DUmpster => The DUmping Ground => Topic started by: franksolich on April 02, 2011, 04:42:44 AM
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A long-time and greatly-esteemed member of conservativecave wrote me, reminding me that the top primitives of any given year tend to be those primitives who made their biggest splashes, their most impressive appearances, in autumn, just before nominations are started for the top primitives of that year.....meaning that other primitives who shone just as brightly earlier in the same year, are overlooked, or discounted.
The "bobbolink" primitive, for example, probably would've ranked higher in the top primitives of 2010, if she had only waited until autumn 2010 to get the Bostonian Drunkard (temporarily) banned from Skins's island, instead of doing the deed in spring 2010, meaning that by the time nominations and voting had started, what had been a 300,000 megaton explosion had faded, in the memories of those nominating and voting, into a mere 20,000 kiloton explosion.
It's human; one remembers more clearly recent events and personages better than one remembers long-ago ones.
It's inevitable that the nadinostradamus primitive, who has kept decent and civilized people rolling on the floor laughing their posteriors off these past few months, late winter 2011, must fade as the year wends on, and it's a strong possibility that by the time nominations and voting are done at the end of the year, few will have recalled her. Surely she will have deserved something within the top five primitives of 2011, but she might not get it, being passe and nearly forgotten by late November this year.
And so the purpose of this "stickied" thread, as proposed by one of our most-beloved members--to be a parking lot where one mentions and describes any particular primitive who's been outstanding, but who also might have diminished in the memory by Thanksgiving 2011.....and then just before nominations get underway, one consults it, to check it for notable but old and stale primitives of the year, whom one might have forgotten.
There are no "rules" for this thread, other than the name of the primitive and, ideally, at least half a paragraph of description of why the particular primitive needs to be remembered come late November.
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Reminder to self: the Horse with no Name primitive, who's been a runner-up, or even in the top ten, a couple of times the past six years, but who never really got the recognition she deserved.
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Note to self, because the end of November's still a long time away, and it'll be forgotten long before nominations are considered for top primitives: the sister-in-law.
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I am going to have to second the vote for the Nadin primitive as well. She has been going pretty strong in the last month or so.
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I am going to have to second the vote for the Nadin primitive as well. She has been going pretty strong in the last month or so.
Same here. Nadin looks to be the winner.
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frank, I can't believe anyone but Nadin would finish 1st this year, although Stinky is trying his best.
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frank, I can't believe anyone but Nadin would finish 1st this year, although Stinky is trying his best.
Stinky is going for quantity not quality. DUmmie nadin is way ahead of him on quality of stooooopid.
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Stinky is going for quantity not quality. DUmmie nadin is way ahead of him on quality of stooooopid.
It would seem that the DOTY will be quantity v. quality, then.
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It would seem that the DOTY will be quantity v. quality, then.
All the DUmmies seem to go for it their own "special" way. :shortbus:
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There is no way Nadin is losing it this year, and I am afraid that the other misfits know this and won't even try anymore.
She really is ruining this for me this year. :bawl:
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And so far, it looks like a consensus. We seem to be of one mind, because I too wish to let it be known: Nadabrain has my vote for Top Primitive of 2011!
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Reminder to self: Nominate "Fire Walk With Me" for the Top 10 list.
He's been climbing the ladder steadly, IMHO.