First I present to you the specialist categories:
Best Photo blog (sponsored by Barefoot)
The nominations:
Alefiya Akbarally
Dominic Sansoni
Sebastian Posingis
My halflife: on photography and also cooking
The winner:
Dominic Sansoni
The Judge said: Stunning photography and a mixture of people, places and regular updates makes this colourful photoblog this year's runaway winner.
Best Newcomer
The nominees:
Ephemeral Ruminations
Married with kids
The winner is:
Married with kids.
The judge, jury and hangman said: Indyana only arrived on the scene a few months ago and has made us smile and laugh with her anecdotes on everyday life that every parent can relate to. We like.
Shortest living blog with the longest title
There could only be one candidate for this prestigious award:
Dutch Sri Lankan entrepreneur living in Melbourne whose soul remains in Colombo
I say: It all started so promisingly then, after three nicely written posts, just died. I hope he didn't.
Funniest Post
One nominee, one winner:
The one and only 1truecoolguy with this beauty. Well it cracked me up anyway, the one called "scaring pedestrians".
Best overseas blog
Of course, this is overseas if you live in Sri Lanka. You know, blogs written by people who live outside Sri Lanka. It would have been silly any other way really.
The esteemed and worthy nominees are:
The Life and Times of Mr Selvarajah
Tiny Little Fractures
Lady Luck Speaks
The Darwin Awards
The winner is:
Tiny Little Fractures
I say: A nicely written blog that has a mix of photographic treasures and good words. The only big negative is Cof25's liking for Snow Patrol. Actually I couldn't decide between them but Cof25, who is probably more like Manof38 by now, was one of my very first readers as well as the first person to link to my blog from his. And he's got rid of his beard now too. Unlike Lady Luck and Darwin.
Best regular commenter who doesn't have their own blog
The nominees:
Savi3
Mala
T
The winner:
Mala - Because she's nice. So are the other two actually. Her comments are always carefully thought out and elegantly worded. Get well soon T.
The "Nice blog but I wish you'd write it in proper English" award
Nominees:
Chathuranga
Mr Evil
The winner:
Chathuranga
Guest judge Sylvester Stallone said: "Frankly Mr Evil was just making up the numbers in this category. He uses too many real words and constructs too many proper sentences to be a real contender. I like his blog though, me and my Mum often read it."
Chathuranga can't be with us tonight, as he is on location in a place called "Txtspk" He asked to pass on these words:
"dats wikd guys. wtf did i do 2 win da dam ting? ma bad ass is plsd wid dis. tks n respek ma bitchin frnds"
Best written blog
One of the highly coveted awards, previous winners include George Bernard Shaw, Kylie Mynogue and Borat Sagdiyev. The nominees are:
Cynically yours
Ephemeral Ruminations
The Darwin Awards
Lady Luck Speaks
Indi.ca
Portrait
One One Things
The joint winners are:
Lady Luck Speaks
Portrait
Guest judge Princess Stephanie of Monaco said: "In an unprecedented move we decided to award the title to two blogs this year. They are both eloquently written with nice long sentences and lots of interesting words and concepts. They should both be very proud. Ephemeral Ruminations deserves special mention just for the great title."
The Shitloads of comments whenever they post award
The Nominees:
The winner is:
There was only ever going to be one winner here. The Queen of the Sri Lankan blogosphere, she can write a seemingly innocent post and get over 50 comments. Statistics have shown that Naz's average comment per post ratio is currently running at 48.63, a commendable figure indeed. On one occasion earlier in July she posted one word by accident and got 81 comments. Indi and Electra are catching up fast but they're just not there yet.
We should also give a thought to Hot Chocolate. It appears to be suffering a terminal illness. There was a brief respite during November but it looks to have relapsed. We hope it can pull through and return to its former glories.
The Big One
Blog of the Year 2006
This is the one that you have all been waiting for. Previous winners include Ranil Wickremasinghe, Gunther from Friends and Dave Grohl. This is the best overall blog and is judged on a combination of literary content, humour, use of images and use of rude words, only in the right fucking context though.
The nominees are:
Lady Luck Speaks
The Darwin Awards
Portrait
Indi.ca
One One Things
The Life and Times of Mr Selvarajah
Nazreen Sansoni
The winner is:
Our guest judge Professor Stephen Hawkins said:
"A few of the nominees fell at the first hurdle because of little, or even no, bad language. Darwin has impressed this year with her humour, her vocabulary and her liberal, though never gratuitous, use of swear words. I was particularly impressed with her post on Britney Spears' vajayjay and now try to use the word whenever possible. She can swear, she can be imaginative and she can be intelligent and write about God and machinery and stuff. I liked her one about cockpunching too."
That concludes this year's awards brought to you from London. If you're one of the winners then an acceptance speech would be nice, just a few paragraphs, preferably with some tears.A very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone who has read my blog this year. And to everyone else too!
RD
16 comments:
wow!
lol :) Thank you for the nomination.. I think!?! :) Like sly told me the other day.. "Most brains are under utilised, they're unable to comprehend full sentences unless they eat enough bananas"
Cool! Thanks for the effort!
Whoa! Best Blog of 2006?! *Thanks!!* AND you got Hawkins to say nice things about me too!
(wiping tears) thanks :)
mala
Naz - I was hoping for a slightly longer acceptance speech but, considering the Chikengunya, that'll do.
Mr Evil - A pleasure. Sly goes on a bit doesn't he!
Charith - Thank you
Darwin - He's a bit fake, that American accent is phoney.
Mala - No worries;)
Two nominashuns an a 'special mention' - sheet! An to tink we jus be trippin! Tanks maan.
Oh hell yes he does tend to! lol! How's it going up there? Not coming down in for dec?
Mr Evil - Not in Dec but I'll be there late Feb for a week.
I smell bias. sniff!sniff!
Anyways, great effort and Very Happy New Year. I would like to nominate London,Lanka & Drums for best new comer.
What can I say mate, I'm honoured!
First and foremeost, I'd like to thank GAAAHHHD, for giving me the strength to believe like the Lord Jesus our saviour, in my talent and good faith. I'd also like to thank my manager, my agent, my parents, Sanctuary Records, Freeze Management, Fiona Apple and my barber for giving me the beard and wit that the lot of you aspire to.
God bless!
x
Now THAT's an acceptance speech. And she knows the name of the woman who invented the iPod too!
Never mess with bearded ladies.
Awwww...I'm honored too! :) Esp. given that I was in a category with no other nominees!! ha ha
Very well written, maybe I'll try to blog more so I can make it in the 2007 list! ;)
Cheers!!
Niroshan - I second that: London, Lanka and Drums for best newcomer!!
Is T who I think it is? If so then thanks I am feeling much better!
I think so! Do you eat a lot of Green Chillies? Glad you're feeling better.
Thank you, and I guess you read my post for the tears and general blubbering...
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