It's still some months before we start taking votes on the Top 10 Primitives (DUmmies) of 2010, but throughout the whole year, one should always keep in mind primitives especially remarkable for their stupidity, depravity, paranoia, and gross ignorance.
What's happened in the past, ever since our esteemed colleague Mr. Wiggum started the Top 10 some years ago, is that winners have tended to be those who made their biggest "splashes" near the end of the year, whereas in fact other primitives had made even bigger splashes earlier in the year.
I guess I would call it a chronological bias; one remembers only the most recent.
The Bostonian Drunkard, long a prominent primitive on Skins's island, for example, got tossed off the island earlier this year; that was surely one of the most explosive events emanating from the sewer, ever, but who's going to remember it, come late November, when votes are being taken?
Or the exit of the greenbriar primitive, also occurring earlier this year.
One handy trick to keeping in mind primitives remarkable for their stupidity, depravity, paranoia, and gross ignorance is to post a primitive comment one finds especially ludicrous in the "Posts that stand alone" thread in the DUmping Ground (separate from the DUmpster, remember) throughout the entire year, and then before voting on the final Top 10, consulting that thread so as to jog the memory about long-forgotten primitives.
