Comments on: Six Awards You Probably Don't Want to Win

By: AJD

AJD — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:14:29 +0000

The Bulwer-Lytton contest isn't "given to the author with the worst opening to his or her novel published that year", and it isn't an award you don't want to win. The prize is for a bad opening to a hypothetical novel. None of them come from actual novels; people write clumsy sentences deliberately to submit to the Bulwer-Lytton and Little Lytton contests.

By: zarathustra

zarathustra — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:54:37 +0000

This blog now as featured on p.14 of PC Format (UK), August 2008.

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:37:15 +0000

Huh. I was kinda expecting both the Darwin Awards and the Golden Razzie.

By: BikerRay

BikerRay — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:03:10 +0000

The refilling soup bowl experiment was quite useful, as it was part of a study on why people overeat.

By: v.dog

v.dog — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:05:25 +0000

Mike Tyson should have got a FIM award for saying "it's a Mayan tattoo from New Zealand", David Tua for "I'll have an O for Awesome" (on Wheel of Fortune), and Jono Gibbs for "nobody in Rugby should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein".

By: Camilla

Camilla — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:06:30 +0000

As a few commenters above, I was completely expecting the last one to be the Darwin Award.

By: S-r-ex

S-r-ex — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:37:12 +0000

Another humiliating award would have to be the Golden Razzie, given to worst movie/actor/actress/etc etc. Halle Berry actually accepted the worst actress award for Catwoman!

The statuette:http://www.filmica.com/hardasmal/archivos/razzie.jpg

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:27:57 +0000

Where is the Darwin Award?

By: Peeves

Peeves — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:03:19 +0000

The winners of the Lowsman trophies will still be earning more than me.

By: Luke R

Luke R — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:15:44 +0000

Highlights in the History of Concrete. Sublime. One can only presume a multi-volume edition.

By: Archbob

Archbob — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:13:16 +0000

I can win a few of those I think

By: Shervin

Shervin — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:41:27 +0000

Actually, I would love to win the ignoble prize. Maybe more so than the Nobel. You make a contribution to science and yet you make a ton of people laugh.

By: vertol

vertol — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:35:07 +0000

The Ernie Awards sound extremely sexist. Even if they award a few to women, the panel is all female.

Also, "The Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, for suggesting the research and development of a “gay bomb,' which would cause enemy troops to become sexually attracted to each other". 30 Rock FTW.

By: brian

brian — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:32:47 +0000

Amazingly... the Darwin award is left off the list!

I am guessing that is the award you least likely want to receive.

By: sammy

sammy — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:39:36 +0000

haha - I worked at Stellar Call Centres as my first office job.. and I'm not surprised they did that. They are complete corporate nazis.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:47:42 +0000

We should give out the Neatorama Award for Stupid Criminals!

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:04:39 +0000

What about the Darwin awards?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:32:14 +0000

Bombproofing your horse is something any horse person is familiar with. It means, figuratively, making your horse so easy-going that a bomb could go off and he would barely flinch. Realistically, it means getting your horse to trust that cars, dogs, firetrucks, drums, paper bags, etc aren't all going to eat him and he doesn't need to freak out over every little thing.

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:29:58 +0000

Until women receive equal pay, I think they have every right to point out sexist comments like those. We cop a LOT more shit than men do. Just have a look at religion! Women still can't be priests in the Catholic church, women must cover themselves up from head to toe in some Islamic denominations (even though the law in the Qur'an that says people must dress modestly is directed at both men and women and makes no mention of being covered completely).

By: E

Thu, 22 May 2008 22:29:42 +0000

Wow, these are really some jewels:
“John, surfing, said to his mother, surfing beside him, ‘How do you like surfing?’”
• “Turning, I mentally digested all of what you, the reader, are about to find out heartbreakingly.”

By: StacyBee

StacyBee — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:26:30 +0000

Actually, they do award them to females! They have a division on the Ernies called the Elaines.

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:19:58 +0000

Ironically, the Ernie Awards are themselves sexist. They're run by feminists and only ever awarded to men. Women who say or do sexist things against men are quite safe from being named.

I nominate the Ernie Awards for an Ernie Award.

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:14:53 +0000

Speaking of the Earnie Awards, I was surprised to learn that it's still acceptable in Australia for companies to stipulate in their dress code for women in office jobs that they must wear high heels.
Before anyone says "but men have to wear suits", heels are bad for your feet/back and SO uncomfortable to wear all day long.
I've never worked at a place like that but because I have flat feet I find heels to cause excruciating pain after only a little while. So ridiculous! There are plenty of nice flats out there.
I can see why models might be required to wear heels, but is it really that important that a woman’s legs look as long, slim, and sexy as possible in the office?

By: bean

bean — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:03:26 +0000

"hairy legged femocrats" I'll have to remember that one. And as for the Donald Rumsfeld quote, it makes perfect sense if you don't have your head up your ass. A known known would be what you know for certain; a known unknown are the things you don't know for certain; unknown unknowns represent the question no one has thought to ask yet.