*****ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN IMPENDING ANNOUCEMENT BY franksolich*****
Three weeks from this very day, nay this very hour, nominations for the Top DUmmies of 2015 will begin; about suppertime central time Thanksgiving Eve.
Nominations usually go on for ten days, and then there’s ten days for voting, and then about ten days after the voting’s closed, the awards are given out; generally, the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, with the top DUmmie being awarded New Year’s Eve in time for appropriate celebration.
Due to, uh, circumstances, franksolich will not be involved with the contests and awards this year, other than as a spectator, nominator, and voter. Those charged with running things this year might, or might not, be identified about the time nominations get underway; it all depends upon what they want to do.
I have no idea what’s to happen with the special awards given out in past years; my recommendation to my replacements was that they ditch all of them, excepting the annual William Rivers Pitt award, for the all-time best exemplar of primitivity. They might, or might not, take my suggestion, but I hope they do, because it’s a lot of work, these special awards, for only negligible entertainment value.
At the least, one may expect to see the Top Ten DUmmies…..and the
franksolich for the primitive that I personally think got overlooked in this year’s voting.
All information—the rules and whatnot--will be posted on Sunday, November 22, but that thread will be locked until nominations open up Thanksgiving Eve. And as with past years, there will be a second nominating thread and a second voting thread in the Sandhills forum too, for those who wish to keep their sentiments about the primitives on Skins’s island more, uh, private.
