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NOMINATIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED. VOTING IS OPEN!

Ignore the instructions below, the nominations have now closed and voting is open.

 

The process is described here...

 

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OK Muppets, THIS THREAD IS FOR NOMINATIONS ONLY - NOT FOR VOTING.

 

There is no way I'm going to miss this open goal of an opportunity to become TMS MVP 2014.

 

The Bear's acoustic is gathering dust in the corner whilst he's playing to electric acolytes on the main board.

 

Toke's impending fatherhood, and the news that the RSPA has decided to press charges for the incident on the Common, are keeping him away.

 

Dubai Philip's finally become officially registered "golf-mental".

 

The fawning word bores Halo and Flyd Owl are just playing The Family to my Charles Manson, so they won't get any votes.

 

People won't 'vote pap' because they want to engineer the situation post-vote where pap goes conspiracy-mad, trying to work out how the vote was fixed.

 

Spudgun has Spudgone.

 

Scotty is busy making up jokes on Sickipaedo, or some such forum.

 

Ron Manager has been sacked.

 

PhillipineSaint is helping police with their enquiries.

 

LAST YEAR'S CATEGORIES

 

So, as I'm basically the last 'man' standing, I've got to win this year. Well that and the fact that I'm going to control the voting mechanism!

 

Using the same categories as The Bear did last year, please can I have your nominations for the following categories:

 

Main Board Sense + Knowledge Poster of the Year

Minty

Monk

SmirkingSaint

Window Cleaner

Kraken

ColinJB

 

Lounge Poster of the Year

Rallyboy

Pap

View from the Top

Bridge too Far

Trousers

Verbal

Viking Warrior

 

Muppet of the Year

Scotty

PhillipineSaint

Ron Manager

Tokyo-Saint

Spudders

Pap

Dubai Phil

Bearsy

Bletch

 

Forum Loki of the Year - I think Bear means Forum anti-hero (Ed.)

Turkish

Alpine-Saint

Grey Crab

Barry Sanchez

CB Fry

Glasgow

 

Female Poster of the Year

LadySaint

Wibble

Georgie

Suewhistle

PinkScarf

Bridge Too Far

 

Love Story of the Year

Dubai Phil ♥ ericofarabia

Glasgow ♥ Sarb

MLG ♥ Turkish

David In Sweden ♥ Underline

Bletch ♥ Big Bad Bob

St Charlie ♥ Dig Dig

Norway ♥ Ludwig

Trousers ♥ Emoticons

Bearsy ♥ Tokyos

 

Fallen Comrade Most Missed Poster Of The Year

Dune

Miltonroader

Deppo

Delldays

Dibden Purlieu Saint

They're all ****s

 

Best thing to happen on Saintsweb this year

When Brett from Camden turned out to be neither Brett, nor from Camden

MLG vs Jonas Bros

suewhistle returns to England

Saintsweb Stream Pikeys Ruin Dubai Football Party 4EVA

Southampton Youth 7 - 0 Pompey Yoof

Bearsy Getting Banned

Turkish getting "rinsed" on the Pasty-Gate thread

Kraken calling Miltonroader a "Relentless Megaspastic"

The Ongoing Pompey Takeover Saga

 

MVP Most Valuable Poster

 

LVP Least Valuable Poster

 

New voting categories...

Some suggestions...

Best New Poster?

Best Hilarious Word Pun?

 

NEW VOTING SYSTEM - ANONYMITY AND OPENNESS

 

In what will be the most open and transparent voting system that the TMS Awards has ever seen in the 2 years it has been running, we will use Google Forms this year!

 

This has a number of key advantages over last year's mechanism:

 

  1. It can accept more than 100 votes (you listening, Bear? Then again, I'm not sure we'll be pushing the 100 vote limit this year)
  2. You can only vote once*.
  3. In a move of such transparency that it will make The Bear look more Fanny Batter than Sepp Blatter, once you have voted you will instantly (probably) be able to see the current votes by your Muppet peers!
  4. Your identity is never captured or disclosed - although mine probably will be.

 

You will have to be logged in to a Google account to vote, but none of your personal details is captured in the results.

 

To test out the voting form, you can enter your NOMINATIONS using the form below:

 

http://goo.gl/forms/Z1RT2TMXvI

 

Nominations will close later today (probably), and then I'll start a new thread for the voting after that. Voting will continue for precisely long enough for me to be declared the TMS MVP.

 

*Bear and Toke, if you spend your Xmas creating Google accounts just so you can fix these results, I want you to know that you may well win, but fair play will be the loser.

 

A GRATUITOUSLY LARGE, GRATUITOUS HEADING

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good work beltch! I read through last year's awards thread the other day cos someone asked me bout it and it was +lols and revealing bout what a dispicable weasel tokyos is! http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?48098-Voting-Now-Open-Saintsweb-Awards-2013#.VJldJsgAA

 

Nomination for Best thing to happen on Saintsweb this year:

 

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?49317-BAP!-The-Barry-amp-Pap-Man-Date-Thread-With-Photos!#.VJqszsgAA

 

Goatboy needs adding to muppet list, he is muppet!

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I'm going to add Redslo into Main Board Sense + Knowledge Poster of the Year and also the new category of PR Plant of 2014.

 

I think the religious fervour with which MLG attacks religious fervour is in need of recognition too, probably in the The Best Thing to Happen... category.

 

I do need more help with the The Best Thing to Happen... category, because most of the best things to happen that I can remember, all involved me!

 

BTW and just FYI, Bear, you inadvertently spelled my named as Beltch instead of Bletch.

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I completely intend to Boycott these awards this year. Seeing as there will only be the two of you left to vote anyways.

 

Also, it doesn't have a category for best Golf Moment of the Year.

 

(The Saints Shirt Photobomb of Ian Poulter at the Ryder Cup won that hands down AND was retweeted by the Club)

 

Oh and we can now watch all the Saints games on TV again. In fact since they've been back on we've not watched Saints win, so we all banned ourselves from the Pub on Saturday against Everton and? We won.

 

Don't strain yourselves giving each other one. (Award that is)

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Yeah, well my Norse mythology isn't as polished as it should be. Sorry, Bear.

 

I think BucktoothedTim needs to be added somewhere. He's a sort of peripheral-Muppet, and he can be a complete Loki when he wants to be (especially when he's in loki papentis), but there really is no subject about which he cannot chip in with something of value.

 

He's a sort of Swiss-Army poster - whereas I've always seen myself as a Gurkha's Kukri.

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So, some very interesting suggestion flooding in (that'll be one then) from someone using the form..

 

Best thing... - Barry Sanchez spending a fiver to come back for 5 minutes before being banned again.

Best thing... - MLG going mental over kind comments regarding clarke carlisle

 

The anonymous poster also suggested Coxford Lou in the PILF category.

 

Other category suggestions...

Most boring poster of the year

Best pronounciation* of the year

Worst spelling of the year

 

Ironically pronunciation was misspelt.

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I want to play but I can't remember everyone's names. But it was a cracking year. Can we have a category for most dramatic meltdown, biggest misogynist and most 'I told you so's. Sorry for not using the form Bletch!

 

No problem, Loud for Cox!

 

This is an equal opportunities Award, so I'm willing to patronise you - even if the little lady couldn't worky-worky the little-wittle formy-warmy.

 

I'll try to accommodate your needs.

 

I have to say that looking at the Female Poster of the Year nominations so far, it looks like we're all willing to Fold Our Cox for you.

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Having employed a BIG-DATA team to sift through the incredible number of responses so far, these are the trends that are developing...

 

Main Board Sense + Knowledge Poster of the Year

Redslo, MLG, Windows, Monk, Smirking, Shurlock, Chez, K. Billy's Supersound

 

Lounge Poster of the Year

 

pap, verbal, minty, saintbletch (when he can be arsed), rallyboy, trousers

 

Muppet of the Year

 

Gayboot, Bear, Bear, Bear, Bear, Bletch, Halo

 

Loki / Mischief-maker - whatever

 

GlasgowSaint, I can't believe it's not bitter Jeff/Sarb/DPS, CB Fry, Ludwig, Batman, Windows

 

Female poster of the year

 

Loud for Cox Lou!

 

Love Story of the Year

 

CB Fry and Turkish

MLG lovers Prayers

Whelk's crush on CB Fry

Pap and Barry true love x2

CB Fry and Bletch

Sue Whistle and Turkish

 

Fallen Comrade

 

Toke, Spudder, Ottery x 2, Barry

 

Best Thing

Bletch's debagging of CB Fry

Barry paying a fiver to be re-banned an hour later

MLG going mental over kind comments regarding clarke carlisle

Defector's watch

Barry and Glasgow being banned

The Barry/Pap man date (with pap's Missus playing gooseberry)

Bletch chatting up CB Fry

Summer meltdown turns into autumnal content

 

MVP

 

Bear, Bear, Bear

 

LVP

 

Bear, UnbelievableJeff, Hypo, Windows (at the moment), Barry Sanchez

 

Other voting categories

 

Best new poster

Best and most impressive meltdown

Most boring poster of the year

Best pronounciation(sic) of the year

Wost spelling of the year

The "me too" category, reserved for people who probably should have a **** instead of putting their jizz on here.

The AlpineSaint award for most negative poster

The Dalek award for continually flogging a dead horse

Least knowledgable ITK

Wordmeister of the year

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Having employed a BIG-DATA team to sift through the incredible number of responses so far, these are the trends that are developing...

 

.......

Other voting categories

 

Best new poster

Best and most impressive meltdown

Most boring poster of the year

Best pronounciation(sic) of the year

Wost spelling of the year

......

 

 

LOL

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Having employed a BIG-DATA team to sift through the incredible number of responses so far, these are the trends that are developing...

 

.......

Other voting categories

 

Best new poster

Best and most impressive meltdown

Most boring poster of the year

Best pronounciation(sic) of the year

Wost spelling of the year

......

 

 

LOL

 

There's no need to be like that. Just because Fold Our Cox is going to cream all the other ladies in the Female Poster of the Year Award.

 

But since you brought it to my attention, I've checked the original entry and that spelling error is on me.

 

:blush:

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No problem, Loud for Cox!

 

This is an equal opportunities Award, so I'm willing to patronise you - even if the little lady couldn't worky-worky the little-wittle formy-warmy.

 

I'll try to accommodate your needs.

 

I have to say that looking at the Female Poster of the Year nominations so far, it looks like we're all willing to Fold Our Cox for you.

 

Thanks for the tech support, that's so manly of you Bletch.

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There's no need to be like that. Just because Fold Our Cox is going to cream all the other ladies in the Female Poster of the Year Award.

 

But since you brought it to my attention, I've checked the original entry and that spelling error is on me.

 

:blush:

 

Not sure I get all the Cox jokes, but assuming that's cos it's boy banter. But am I too late to nominate Bridge too Far for female poster??

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The fawning word bores Halo and Flyd Owl are just playing The Family to my Charles Manson, so they won't get any votes.

 

Yep Bletch, I feel like a member of your family - those two rabbits you gave me have done what rabbits do best; I’m now infested with a plague of punning bunnies setting anagrams and word puzzles and correcting me grammar and punctuation, ffs.

 

Not sure I get all the Cox jokes, but assuming that's cos it's boy banter. But am I too late to nominate Bridge too Far for female poster??

 

You're not alone, Lou! Bletch's anagrams are slow burners at the best of times.

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Much as i am likely to be championing Cox Lou, is it such a landslide win that Lady Saint does not even get a mention??

 

I'm not sure what I've done to be worthy apart from call Plastic a loser, which I now regret. Lady Saint seems far more knowledgable, and Bridge Too Far has an aura of elegance and unflappability. Bridge Too Far has edged it for me this year.

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OK lads, observe as His Bletchness interprets hidden female communication for you.

 

Women don't say what they mean, instead they speak in a sort of Enigma code.

 

Luckily my first degree was in Lady Talk so I can interpret it for you*.

 

 

Oh, sh!t. I forgot to mention that complete b!tch BTF. Oh, ********, I better give her a name-check through gritted teeth, but I'll make sure she knows that I forgot all about her first time around.

 

Not sure I get all the Cox jokes, but assuming that's cos it's boy banter. But am I too late to nominate Bridge too Far for female poster??

 

 

 

That complete b!tch. I'm just an afterthought, am I? Right, I'll type this so that it's dripping with sarcasm and p!ss. Better put a smiley so she doesn't think she's managed to upset me!

 

I'm flattered but I think you and LadySaint are far more worthy :)

 

 

 

Good. Another opportunity to talk about me and all the flirting I've done in TMS with the lads, and that handsome Bletch that keeps making me gags with his lengthy Cox jokes**. Now let me see, let me see. Oh yes....'elegance and unflappability'...Lol. That should do it. B!tch! I'll make her realise that she's not as knowledgeable as that other b!tch Lady Saint.

 

I'm not sure what I've done to be worthy apart from call Plastic a loser, which I now regret. Lady Saint seems far more knowledgable, and Bridge Too Far has an aura of elegance and unflappability. Bridge Too Far has edged it for me this year.

 

 

 

* As I hope BTF will attest, I'm not really a chauvinist. Just stretching for a little Xmas cheer. I'd just like to say that it's refreshing to have female company in TMS. And there's no punchline here, no mention of off-side rules, or ironing gags, just a genuine welcome.

** Come on?

 

(And I'm not even going to edit this post in a few hours so that it then ends with "Now, get your tits out!").

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Yep Bletch, I feel like a member of your family - those two rabbits you gave me have done what rabbits do best; I’m now infested with a plague of punning bunnies setting anagrams and word puzzles and correcting me grammar and punctuation, ffs.

 

 

 

You're not alone, Lou! Bletch's anagrams are slow burners at the best of times.

 

Halo. You'll get my vote (not sure in which category yet though) for that Hard Yank = Clint Eastwood = Wood he? gag. That might have been my moment of 2014. In fact I think I nearly 'went'.

 

Then again, Flyd Owl did come up with another excellent post, for which he was awarded the OBE. So it might be close.

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Halo. You'll get my vote (not sure in which category yet though) for that Hard Yank = Clint Eastwood = Wood he? gag. That might have been my moment of 2014. In fact I think I nearly 'went'.

 

Then again, Flyd Owl did come up with another excellent post, for which he was awarded the OBE. So it might be close.

 

Well, Bletch, as it’s Christmas Eve and I’ve had a few beers, I’ll let you into a secret – you’ll always get my vote because I love all that word stuff you do.

 

Damn, now I’m gonna wake up on Christmas Day feeling cheap and dirty and full of regrets, again. :(

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I'm not sure what I've done to be worthy apart from call Plastic a loser, which I now regret.

 

This is bull****, you don't regret it, it got you all frothy.

I nominate Lou & I for forum romance of the year, and I have the pics to prove it.

 

Also merry Xmas, see you all on Boxing Day

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I have come to love my fellow muppets. I like to think we're the salt and grit for the icy conditions on SaintsWeb. Winter is coming? Not if Bearsy hits a thread in a certain way, or bletch decides to get off his fúcking cloud and come down and deal with us mere mortals. I've seen it time and again, forum hardmen put down by the surreal, the sarcastic and the surprisingly sensible.

 

This bus would be sliding off the road without us :)

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I have come to love my fellow muppets. I like to think we're the salt and grit for the icy conditions on SaintsWeb. Winter is coming? Not if Bearsy hits a thread in a certain way, or bletch decides to get off his fúcking cloud and come down and deal with us mere mortals. I've seen it time and again, forum hardmen put down by the surreal, the sarcastic and the surprisingly sensible.

 

This bus would be sliding off the road without us :)

 

Been worried about the bus since Nige's best mate stopped doing the mechanic sanity checks and stuff. Thankfully the SWF muppets stepped forward in their ranks to steady the ship, er, sorry, the bus. Cheers all, happy christmas

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Women don't say what they mean, instead they speak in a sort of Enigma code.

 

Luckily my first degree was in Lady Talk so I can interpret it for you*.

 

* As I hope BTF will attest

 

 

Hahaha, jeez Bletch that was pretty funny. How come I've not come across you before? You're not on the main site - how come? Do you like football??

 

I think you've just gained a last minute vote (though not sure what for yet). But I genuinely don't understand all your acronyms...BTF??!

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Dear Muppets.

 

Finally I can reveal why I am not a contender this year, BUT I deserve a category all to myself even so............

 

Finally I can (In Big Bad Bob's Video parlance) Let one go.

 

I finally became a Granddad.

 

Yep. Without any influence from me he was named after a Golfer, so a warm TMS welcome to Essex Luke. (The deal was if he popped out during our game with Citeh he would be a Saint. The little bugger popped out right after Soldado scored for the Spuds. Ho hum so he is now an official Spud fan. Harumph)

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Having employed a BIG-DATA team to sift through the incredible number of responses so far, these are the trends that are developing...

 

Main Board Sense + Knowledge Poster of the Year

Redslo, MLG, Windows, Monk, Smirking, Shurlock, Chez, K. Billy's Supersound

 

Lounge Poster of the Year

 

pap, verbal, minty, saintbletch (when he can be arsed), rallyboy, trousers

 

Muppet of the Year

 

Gayboot, Bear, Bear, Bear, Bear, Bletch, Halo

 

Loki / Mischief-maker - whatever

 

GlasgowSaint, I can't believe it's not bitter Jeff/Sarb/DPS, CB Fry, Ludwig, Batman, Windows

 

Female poster of the year

 

Loud for Cox Lou!

 

Love Story of the Year

 

CB Fry and Turkish

MLG lovers Prayers

Whelk's crush on CB Fry

Pap and Barry true love x2

CB Fry and Bletch

Sue Whistle and Turkish

 

Fallen Comrade

 

Toke, Spudder, Ottery x 2, Barry

 

Best Thing

Bletch's debagging of CB Fry

Barry paying a fiver to be re-banned an hour later

MLG going mental over kind comments regarding clarke carlisle

Defector's watch

Barry and Glasgow being banned

The Barry/Pap man date (with pap's Missus playing gooseberry)

Bletch chatting up CB Fry

Summer meltdown turns into autumnal content

 

MVP

 

Bear, Bear, Bear

 

LVP

 

Bear, UnbelievableJeff, Hypo, Windows (at the moment), Barry Sanchez

 

Other voting categories

 

Best new poster

Best and most impressive meltdown

Most boring poster of the year

Best pronounciation(sic) of the year

Wost spelling of the year

The "me too" category, reserved for people who probably should have a **** instead of putting their jizz on here.

The AlpineSaint award for most negative poster

The Dalek award for continually flogging a dead horse

Least knowledgable ITK

Wordmeister of the year

 

******, not even nominated, Google is wank too, can't even vote for myself 99 times, top two ****** - 1) bear is on here less than me and still gets 17 nominations for wank off f the year, plus 2)lugwig - wanker of the year to barry sanchez of the year? Stop it, that's enough for me, I'm out!

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Well, Bletch, as it’s Christmas Eve and I’ve had a few beers, I’ll let you into a secret – you’ll always get my vote because I love all that word stuff you do.

 

Damn, now I’m gonna wake up on Christmas Day feeling cheap and dirty and full of regrets, again. :(

 

[dabbing eyes gently with man-size Kleenex]

 

Halo, whilst I'm with you you'll never be cheap or remorseful, the dirty bit I can't do anything about I'm afraid. It's biological.

 

You're my favourite.

 

Hahaha, jeez Bletch that was pretty funny. How come I've not come across you before? You're not on the main site - how come? Do you like football??

 

I think you've just gained a last minute vote (though not sure what for yet). But I genuinely don't understand all your acronyms...BTF??!

 

Damned with faint praise. Never heard of me? Ouch, you cut me to the quick.

 

BTF = Bridge too far.

 

You're my favourite.

 

I have come to love my fellow muppets. I like to think we're the salt and grit for the icy conditions on SaintsWeb. Winter is coming? Not if Bearsy hits a thread in a certain way, or bletch decides to get off his fúcking cloud and come down and deal with us mere mortals. I've seen it time and again, forum hardmen put down by the surreal, the sarcastic and the surprisingly sensible.

 

This bus would be sliding off the road without us :)

 

And just to fire a .44 Magum into the face of this bus analogy...you're the conductor papster...

 

And finally, to borrow from the great Bruce Forsyth...You're my favourite.

 

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Merry Xmas one and all.

 

May you start the day with a full sack, and end it with an empty one.

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Hahaha, jeez Bletch that was pretty funny. How come I've not come across you before? You're not on the main site - how come? Do you like football??

 

I think you've just gained a last minute vote (though not sure what for yet). But I genuinely don't understand all your acronyms...BTF??!

 

Proof that love is not only blind but mental.

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I'd just like to point out that it's all over between Turks and me; threats of making him watch me play football worked!:)

 

I'd like to nominate Bletch for Biggest Techy Nerd in the Services of Football for his word cloud work. I know MLG and Granty will be disappointed but their day will come..

 

Incidentally, I missed out on Bletch chatting up CB Fry. That's personally not what I'd like to do to CB, but I'm intrigued as to what happened..

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I'd just like to point out that it's all over between Turks and me; threats of making him watch me play football worked!:)

 

I'd like to nominate Bletch for Biggest Techy Nerd in the Services of Football for his word cloud work. I know MLG and Granty will be disappointed but their day will come..

 

Incidentally, I missed out on Bletch chatting up CB Fry. That's personally not what I'd like to do to CB, but I'm intrigued as to what happened..

 

Seconds for the Bletch word cloud! Pure nutjob genius. If only we could channel our energy in a positive, constructive direction, the world would be our mollusc.

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Incidentally, I missed out on Bletch chatting up CB Fry. That's personally not what I'd like to do to CB, but I'm intrigued as to what happened..

 

Me too. I'm not sure I can imagine anyone having the nerve to chat up CB Fry, and if they did, what the result might be. Quite mind blowing really.

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******, not even nominated, Google is wank too, can't even vote for myself 99 times, top two ****** - 1) bear is on here less than me and still gets 17 nominations for wank off f the year, plus 2)lugwig - wanker of the year to barry sanchez of the year? Stop it, that's enough for me, I'm out!

 

Don't worry Toke, some of the people that could be arsed to nominate posters said that they were happy with last year's categories.

 

So as you were in a few categories last year, you'll still be on the ballot paper.

 

Good Christmas, Toke?

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OK, I don't want to influence the vote in any way #votebletch, but seeing as some people haven't seen the CB Fry / Bletch love-in....

 

Start here and read forward...

 

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?51659-September-One-Judgement-Day&p=2047396#post2047396

 

I actually got fan mail believe it or not.

 

I only ever get PMs from pap (politics and programming) and Toke (requests to go on Jeremy Kyle with him to prove that I'm not really his biological father, oh and labaporn).

 

But following the exchange with CB Fry, people took the time to put metaphorical pen to metaphorical paper and thank me for bullying the bully.

 

As I say, don't let this influence you #votebletch, when you come to #votebletch in the votes for the in the upcoming 2014 #votebletch Awards.

 

I'll get the voting form live soon with the suggested nominations.

 

Toke's a ****.

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Took the dogs for a swim, food then what felt like 6 hours of downtown Abbey. What's not to love about Jesus's birthday B?

 

If I can't be ****ed to open a Google account, what happens with my 75 votes?

 

That's a lot of Carson, Toke.

 

Is "taking the dogs for a swim" some sort of sexual metaphor?

 

As in, "I took the dog for a swim from behind"?

 

Or, "Toke, have you been taking the poor bloody dog for a swim again?"

 

Re the Google account, well you can always put in a postal vote. Just PM me with your votes and I'll make sure they get #votebletch transcribed faithfully into the results spreadsheet.

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I am extremely proud to see that someone has nominated me alongside Bletch in the Muppet category. It is a particularly poignant moment because this year is the centenary celebration of mine and Bletch’s first meeting.

 

As a founder member of the Gosport Chattering Classes, Bletch had brow-beaten the military top-brass into issuing him with a batman – as far as I’m aware, he was the only serving private in the history of warfare ever to have had one – and that poor batman fellow was me.

 

Off we went to fight the good fight, but by 1917 Bletch had worn himself out tussling with the truculent Turks, and I was exhausted from lugging around Bletch’s enormous crate of dictionaries, thesauruses, anagrams, word-clouds, word-bubbles, word-puzzles and other word-associated paraphernalia. The authorities decided that both of us were in dire need of rest and recuperation, so registered us with an early forerunner of TMS, namely, the Netley Hospital Asylum. They quickly diagnosed both of us as ‘stump orators’.

 

Bletch was never happier than when beseeching, besmirching, beguiling, bewitching or bewildering us with his large lexicon. I was far more taciturn by nature, but, after spending tediously long years in Bletch’s company, I’d developed the unfortunate habit of pale imitation.

 

How matron laughed at our antics! She said we were hysterical. The rest of the medical staff was less impressed; in fact, they thought we were a couple of bores and employed a variety of methods to ‘suggest’ we change our silly ways. I hastily adopted their ‘suggestion’ and within a couple of months had dropped Bletch in favour of more interesting company.

 

Sadly, the medics were less successful with Bletch. Every method of ‘suggestion’ was employed – blindfolds, gimp-masks, chains, whips, surgical probes, bicycle pumps, wigs, Downton Abbey repeats, labradors, llamas – all to no avail: Bletch lapped it all up and remained resolutely verbose, but, otherwise, hopelessly incompetent. It was a long, long while before they found the poor fellow gainful employment, and it is with some sadness that I note he has remained in that same employment ever since.

 

For anyone who might be interested, a film of Bletch and me at Netley Hospital Asylum can be seen below. Viewers will be glad to learn that it is a silent movie. Please also be advised that Bletch and me are denoted by our military service names: Private King (Bletch) and Private Sandall (me).

 

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With acknowledgement and eternal appreciation to the real Privates King and Sandall, and millions like them, who sacrificed their health and lives for muppets like us.

Edited by Halo Stickman
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