Archive for the 'Awards' Category

News: Doody Family Crowned Faggot Family

April 13th, 2007

“The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.”
From The BBC:
Family of faggot fans fly the flag
A West Midlands family is playing a central role in the quest to raise the profile of a forgotten British dish - faggots.
The Doody family from Wolverhampton has been […]

News: Prestigious “Bad Sex” Award Winners Announced in London

November 30th, 2006

From YahooNews: 
Writers put brave face on bad sex awards
LONDON (Reuters) - There cannot be much good in bad sex, unless maybe it wins you a prize.
Two authors put on a brave face at being recognised for one of literatures most dubious accolades — the Bad Sex in Fiction Award — in a ceremony at In […]

News: Milwaukee Wins Coveted “Drunkest City” Award

August 24th, 2006

From YahooNews: 
Milwaukee is named ‘Drunkest City’
MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee has been ranked by Forbes.com as “America’s Drunkest City” on a list of 35 major metropolitan areas ranked for their drinking habits.
Forbes said Tuesday it used numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rank cities in five areas: state laws, number of drinkers, […]

News: Peabody Learns to Respect South Parks Authoratay

June 5th, 2006

 
From MSNBC.COM: 
South Park’ wins coveted Peabody award
Jon Stewart hosted awards honoring ‘distinguished achievement’ in media
By Alex Woodson
NEW YORK - With Jon Stewart hosting and “South Park” as one of the honorees, the 65th annual Peabody Awards ceremony Monday had a comedic bent.
But with four awards recognizing the challenges of covering Hurricane Katrina, the humor […]

News: Worlds Longest Eyebrow Hair Record Shattered!

May 31st, 2006

 
From The PT Leader:
PT man’s eyebrow is world-record length 
At first, Leonard Traenkenschuh thought seeking a world record for having the longest strand of eyebrow hair was a “hair”-brained idea.
But the more he thought about it, the more the notion grew on him.
So, last week, the Port Townsend man completed the documentation necessary to meet the Guinness […]

News: Gilbert Gottfried Wins Top Honors as “Worlds Unsexiest Man”

April 19th, 2006

                    
   Gootfriend Won           Cooter Lost           Cheney Lost Too
From CNN.COM:
‘World’s unsexiest man’ named
Gilbert Gottfried, Randy Johnson, Roger Ebert top list
BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) — Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, the voice of the Aflac duck in television commercials for the insurer, was crowned “unsexiest man in the world” by an alternative newspaper Tuesday.
“The parrot-voiced, pickle-faced […]