The contest is over for me. Barring a late minute run by some other cretin over there, this zipperhead wins for this year, hands down.
It's a little early yet--we've still got 59 more days until nominations for the Top DUmmies of 2013 open on Thanksgiving Eve, and anything can happen--but I'm leaning this way myself.
Of course, much depends upon what the brain-damaged primitive does the next 59 days--if he remains sulking and cowering in the darkness, yeah, he's my number one choice. If he grows some balls and shows up on Skins's island to explain things, and apologize to his fellow primitives (especially the ones he has on "ignore") for being such a rectal aperture, I
might knock him down to only my second or third choice.
For the longest time, it looked as if cousin nadin had a "lock" on the top award, but then the locust primitive looked as if he was gaining ground, and so I was watching him.....and so was caught totally unawares by the sudden emergence of both the brain-damaged primitive and the convenience store primitive as contenders for the top spot, along with the possible recrudescence of the big guy from Omaha, who'd been dormant most of this year.
A mere month ago, I had not the slightest idea they'd come up.
One can always count on the Taverner primitive to show rather highly, but like the sparkling old dude of yore, he's most likely to be the perennial second-, third-, or fourth-placed winner, never the top winner.
Earlier this year, I'd had high hopes for
and for Big Bertha, but they're fading in the stretch; they'll probably both end up in the top ten, but nowhere near the top.
At the moment, I'm personally inclined to nominate Skippy from New York City--the "NYC_SKP" primitive--and the whole entire cooking and baking forum (yes, one may nominate a group of primitives, as well as individual primitives). I suspect the cooking and baking primitives can make it to the bottom rung of the top ten, but Skippy's prospects remain utterly a mystery to me. Maybe he has it in him, maybe he doesn't. We'll see.
I have no idea why cousin nadin's faded away, but as for other old-timers, it appears the subway cat's loving, caring sisters now have her permanently sequestered where she can't hurt herself any more, and the sparkling old dude appears to be too busy coping with marital problems, to spend any time campaigning.
I'm really looking forward to writing the awards this year. It's going to be fun, a labor of love.