Member Awards 2014

[Brian37]

I am willing to bribe everyone here for votes, a free year's supply of pocket lint. (Disclaimer, offer does not apply in reality, see store for details, restrictions apply, do not apply directly to the skin, keep out of reach of children.)

[vorlon13]

I match the pocket lint offer, and raise all my old pron

[Brian37]

I match the pocket lint offer, and raise all my old pron

To parody Booger from "Revenge Of The Nerds"

"What the fuck is "old pron"?"

[Jenny A]

"What the fuck is "old pron"?"

Pron that is well thumbed and has perhaps already lead to manual fucking.

[Brian37]

[vorlon13]

I match the pocket lint offer, and raise all my old pron

To parody Booger from "Revenge Of The Nerds"

"What the fuck is "old pron"?"

Thou willst know of it from it's stickiness.

[Jenny A]

I'm having trouble with voting altogether. There are too many good possibilities for categories like best member and best debater and too many amusing possibilities for weirdest and most opinionated.

And then there are categories I like to add, like the best crank, that is the member who is most stuck on a single, odd, conspiracy or other largely fallacious theory. Or, more positively, most informative member.

But I'm not having quite so much trouble with best theist member. I rate theists on their entertainment value in debate, and I don't mean just absurdity; there has to be a little originality and the ability to see and respond to other points of view. That of course eliminates sane placating theists who simply define god to be whatever sounds most acceptable and the merely batshit crazy. It also eliminates the traditional believers who seem unable to see that others might see different things then their own traditional interpretation. It eliminates the faith based believers too, as there's nothing to argue about if you believe without proof.

I'm going with Heywood, because he responds to argument and comes up with original ideas for proving god. They don't work, but they are ingenious in the way a Rube Goldberg machine is ingenious. On a similar and also Rube Goldberg note is the Professor whose secret code interpretations of scripture predicting Jesus or the apocalypse are even more Rube Goldberg, though not so original or thought provoking.

[Exian]

I'm a dumbshit; I could barely remember half the members for each category. There's a lot of quality members here. Still, I'm happy with my votes. I could have really went either way, even if I had remembered the qualified members. "New member" was particularly hard for me to remember who qualified.

[Losty]

I didn't vote for a best new member. I couldn't choose. There are so many members that I really love.

[Jackalope]

There are so many members that I really love.