Language Award Finalists from CT Forum

[Gravy]

For newcomers, when you click on the "nominate" button, it's to nominate a post for The Language Award, which is administered in the Community subforum.

These are the finalists who posted about conspiracy theories. I checked the finals back to January, 2006. A couple of these aren't about 9/11. Let's doff our caps to Myriad, who made the finals seven times (and won once), to gumboot, who made it four times, and to the 23 others who took the time to shed light on these important subjects with such passion, intelligence, ingenuity, and wit.

Essential reading for anyone interested in these issues.

2006

delphi_ote: Remember things as they were

cloudshipsrule: Connecting the dots with Feng Shui

Manny: No evidence of explosives

delphi_ote: The truthers' faceless enemy

Gravy: Evidence trumps belief, Killtown

Gravy (winner): Why I fight

Marquis de Carabas: A phrase is coined: JAQing off

CptColumbo: 9/11 analogy: a slam dunk case

uk_dave: The ever-expanding conspiracy

Triterope: The troofer dist...ditch...dictionary

negativ: No pizzazz, these CTs

2007

stateofgrace: 11 questions about Flight 77 for CIT

Mercutio: Towers, elves, and Wood (poem)

Tirdun: A Titanic conspiracy

Myriad: I forgot what forum this is!

conspiraider: An Unconnected Twoof (pyramid)

Loss Leader: Burden of proof & reasonable doubt

R.Mackey: Discussing motive, not method

Redtail: Truther commitment vs. real commitment

Myriad (winner): How Superman works (towers)

Stellafane (winner): The "Doink...doink...doink" theory

Redtail: Rage against truther cowards

Mobyseven: William: you were a hero once.

Foolmewunz: The official story?

gumboot: Any country could become nazi Germany

Hal Bidlack: Please stop, William Rodriguez

Stellafane: Kevin Barrett wants me dead

Tirdun: On Edna Cintron

Myriad: Summing up the truth movement

Diagoras: I was a 9/11 conspiracy theorist

gumboot: Why the military couldn't stop 9/11

Myriad: The Hiroshima Hoax

2008

gumboot: I base my opinion on...nothing

pomeroo: Their hearts are no longer in it

Foolmewunz: I got cred: you don't

Myriad: Today's real secret mojo

gumboot: That Day in Fall (poem)

Myriad: Teleology vs. science

Mercutio: I am Mark Roberts

ElMondoHummus: Real criticism illuminates

Myriad: Critical thinking and skepticism are the answer

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[Gravy]

bomp

 

[RedIbis]

I'm shocked my insightful articulation never made the cut.

 

[Hokulele]

Ha! Now I know who to blame for the phrase JAQ'ing off.

 

[A W Smith]

This topic "bares" bumping

 

[Porkpie Hat]

Can I re-nominate Stellafane for the "Doink...Doink...Doink" theory?

Of all the time to not be wearing a diaper!

 

[Stellafane]

Can I re-nominate Stellafane for the "Doink...Doink...Doink" theory?

Of all the time to not be wearing a diaper!

Be my guest. It's against the rules and therefore won't get in, but it'll make me feel great!

 

[TexasJack]

Be my guest. It's against the rules and therefore won't get in, but it'll make me feel great!

Now I'm intrigued, is there a link for this?

 

[Porkpie Hat]

Be my guest. It's against the rules and therefore won't get in, but it'll make me feel great!

Rules!?

Forget it I don't got no time for no stinking rules!

(It was a great post and now my wife's wondering why I'm walking around the house going "doink,doink,doink")

 

[Gravy]

Now I'm intrigued, is there a link for this?

It's above, in 2007.
Stellafane (winner): The "Doink...doink...doink" theory

 

[Gravy]

Oh, and thanks to Hokulele for suggesting this idea. These will be included in the "Best of" index, as a separate category.

 

[pomeroo]

I'm shocked my insightful articulation never made the cut.

"Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin' if you wanna be with me
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin' if you wanna be with me

I'm not tryin' to be your hero
'Cause that zero is too cold for me, Brrr
I'm not tryin' to be your highness
'Cause that minus is too low to see, yeah..."

--Billy Preston, 1974

 

[Minadin]

How many Pith award finalists were there, I wonder?

 

[Gravy]

How many Pith award finalists were there, I wonder?

Few.

 

[Jonnyclueless]

I thought it was an award for using the most bad words.

 

[Brainache]

I remember a post from some bogus Air Force whistleblower who claimed that the US was missing a Tomahawk, to which I replied : "Have you checked the back of Custer's head?"

I'm sure that would have been nominated as a piece of pith if the Pith stakes had been running then. Pity, it was pretty pithy.

 

[Stellafane]

Oh, and thanks to Hokulele for suggesting this idea. These will be included in the "Best of" index, as a separate category.

It is a stupendous idea. This whole 9/11 CT forum was kind of like the history of alchemy. We spent a lot of time trying to transmute leaden intellects to see the golden light of reality. For the most part we failed, but we uncovered a lot of shiny new ideas along the way.

 

[Calcas]

Thanks for this Mark. The OP is chock full of good reading.

I'm starting to tire of the whole topic as well. Pretty much everything that can be "alleged" by the twoofers has been debunked ad nauseam. Now, all that we see are the same old tired cliches and baseless claims ala Groundhog Day.

It's like Deja Vu all over again...

 

[Minadin]

Few.

I know it sucked and I didn't get many votes . . .

Maybe I should do the leg-work myself and see how many pithy people we've had make the finals. I suspect it's a fair number.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Brilliant idea for a thread, Gravy.
Bookmarked.

There are some old favourites in there, and some I don't recall. Good reading!

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