As most here know, franksolich writes the awards for the DUmmies of the year.
This is only mid-September, and the winners aren't announced until the last week of the year, but sometimes, especially if it's a primitive with whom I'm not intimately acquainted, it takes considerable research; research that's best done far in advance.
We've noticed the absence of a lot of primitives of prominence this year, some of them short-term, others of them apparently permanent, but there's one we've seemed to overlook when discussing absent primitives.
2008: Top DUmmie #04 The Straight Story
2011: Top DUmmie #19 The Straight Story
This primitive's been absent from Skins's island for a while.
Anybody have any idea why?