Welcome to the 1st annual PDXRadio Razzberry Awards.

And the categories are:

Best Male Poster
Best Female Poster
Best Individual Post
Worst Individual Post
Best Thread
Worst Thread
Most Consistently High-Quality Poster
Most Consisently Off-Topic Poster
Most Consistently Funny Poster
Most Memorable Thread
Most Argumentative Poster
Least Intelligible Poster
Biggest Flirt
Biggest Ass-Kisser
Biggest Sense Of Humour
Biggest Waste Of Time
Biggest Pedant
Poorest Loser
Most Improved Poster
Least Improved Poster
Forum Deathmatch Fighters
Forum Love-in Partners

Remember you can only vote once but you may list past members no longer present.

Just copy and paste it into notepad and think about it for a while. Post your completed list when ready. Voting closes next Saturday at midnight and the winners will be posted on Sunday. Take your time and have fun with this!

What do the winners get? ABBA 8-tracks?

What do they win? Tell them Johnny....

Sure thing Brian, Each winner will receive a previously used $5 Powerball ticket. Ticket's courtesy of the garbage can at your friendly 7-11 convenience stores!

Plus, a slightly used VHS of possibly the worst film ever made, 1983's "The Lonely Lady" starring Pia Zadora. In 1984, "The Lonely Lady" was nominated for a record eleven Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies).

Ohhh yes - I'll make a crappy mix CD as a prize!

Runner up receives a 2007 Pokemon calendar.

That's a lot of categories though.

Best Male Poster..............Missingkskd
Best Female Poster............
Best Individual Post.....1000 way tie
Worst Individual Post..how could you choose one?
Best Thread......THE BOSS
Worst Thread.....THE BOSS
Most Consistently High-Quality Poster..Missingkskd
Most Consisently Off-Topic Poster
Most Consistently Funny Poster
Most Memorable Thread...THE BOSS
Most Argumentative Poster....
Least Intelligible Poster...wat u tink bout dat
Biggest Flirt
Biggest Ass-Kisser.....
Biggest Sense Of Humour
Biggest Waste Of Time
Biggest Pedant
Poorest Loser
Most Improved Poster
Least Improved Poster
Forum Deathmatch Fighters
Forum Love-in Partners

Best Male Poster -- CJ, by a mile!
Best Female Poster -- Mrs M. (where is she these days? Gotta have the Mrs.)
Best Individual Post -- Are you kidding me?
Worst Individual Post -- ?!?
Best Thread -- RUSH one
Worst Thread --
Most Consistently High-Quality Poster -- CJ, Vit, Chris
Most Consisently Off-Topic Poster -- Trixter, who else?
Most Consistently Funny Poster -- Mrs M, Trixter
Most Memorable Thread --
Most Argumentative Poster -- Many
Least Intelligible Poster --
Biggest Flirt -- Trixter
Biggest Ass-Kisser --
Biggest Sense Of Humour
Biggest Waste Of Time -- Probably me
Biggest Pedant -- WTF
Poorest Loser
Most Improved Poster -- Radioblogman
Least Improved Poster
Forum Deathmatch Fighters -- MC + Trixter
Forum Love-in Partners

Definition of pedant:

1. a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
2. a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.
3. a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.

• Best Male Poster -- Missing KSKD, Darktemper, Chickenjuggler, Edselehr, Chris Taylor, Brianl, Listenerpete, Randy_in_Eugene, Alfredo, Craig Adams, Roger and so many others
• Best Female Poster -- Mrs. Merkin with an honorable mention to Entre_nous
• Best Individual Post -- Many!
• Worst Individual Post -- Anything that includes Ham-Fisted, Rape Rooms, Godless or Lefties
• Best Thread -- Many!
• Worst Thread -- Come Work for the Boss!
• Most Consistently High-Quality Poster -- Missing_KSKD, Chris Taylor
• Most Consistently Off-Topic Poster -- Wayne, 62kgw, Nwokie
• Most Consistently Funny Poster -- Mrs. Merkin
• Most Memorable Thread -- A certain night in a certain hotel that was certainly funny
• Most Argumentative Poster -- Wayne, Herb, Okie
• Least Intelligible Poster -- Djfreeesh
• Biggest Flirt -- Justin_timberfake with a Betty in his Yugo
• Biggest Ass-Kisser -- Herb because whenever something utterly indefensible is posted, he gives the poster accolades
• Biggest Sense Of Humour -- Damn near everyone, but Darktemper often has the best targeting system!
• Biggest Waste Of Time -- Running to grab facts that counter the lies and agitprop bullshit of a few parrots
• Biggest Pedant -- Me, after too many years of research and not enough sleep
• Poorest Loser -- Wayne
• Most Improved Poster -- Shyguy is back!!!
• Least Improved Poster -- Herb
• Forum Deathmatch Fighters -- Truth vs. Lies
• Forum Love-in Partners -- The KCYX alumni
• Most Missed Poster -- Reinstatepete
• Least Missed Poster -- Wayne
• Best Radio History Poster -- Craig Adams, Semoochie, Kennewickman and others
• Best Internet Radio Station -- Salem-fm
• Best New School Poster -- Vitalogy
• Best Old School Poster -- Dan_packard, of course!

> Biggest Ass-Kisser -- Herb because whenever something utterly indefensible is posted, he gives
> the poster accolades

I second that nomination because of Herb's frequent displays of fondness for Eve Fuller's on-air persona.

Best Car- My YUGO!

Most humble - Me.

Most likely to live a double life- moi.

"Most missed poster"... Deane Johnson

Yeah, where is Deane?!? Haven't seen that cat in forever!

BIG OOOOPS I left off mrs M as best fem poster

actually

least missed poster ties djfreeeeeeeesh and Trevor

I kind of miss the quirkyness of J7

Djfreshiefresh might be a multiple category winner!!!

I'll second missing Deane.

Hope all is well with his fam.

Best Male Poster - Tie Craig Adams & Missing_kskd

Best Female Poster - Teri Danner

Best Individual Post - 1) Roger's post, dated 2/11/08 11:32 AM in the thread "Clear Channel - As if things weren't bad enough"
2) Cumulative award for various posts from Herb where he explains doctrinal details of his faith. Though I don't agree with these doctrines, I admire his thoroughness. He knows what he believes.

Best Thread - Towers & Such

Worst Thread - djfrresh (All posts on this thread were off topic!!)

Most Consistently High-Quality Poster - Craig Adams

Most Consisently Off-Topic Poster - Djfrresh

Most Argumentative Poster - DigitalDextor

Least Intelligible Poster - Djfrresh

Biggest Ass-Kisser - Herb for his praise of Eve Fuller's on-air persona.

Biggest Sense Of Humour - The "old" 62kgw for his descriptions of various technical issues. (Example-A change to the audio processor settings at KKSN 910 triggered a comment from 62kgw that asking Dave "Records" Stone to do his show with the station's new sound was like "asking Michael Jordan to play basketball with a Nerf ball.")

Biggest Pedant - Dilemma

Poorest Loser - Wayne

Forum Deathmatch Fighters - Tie Reinstatepete & DigitalDextor / 62kgw & Kent Randles


Would it be out of line for me to suggest some additional award categories?

Had forgotten about dilemma. Man, I learned a lot from his posts, but it was thick going...

No! Meta is fun.

**Meta is discussion about us, by us too much = bad, IMHO some = good, same as any introspection is.

OK--some of the bonus awards that I was considering were:

* Top luddite
* Top "those were the days" nostalgia poster
* Top broadcast industry critic
* Top proponent of current industry policies
* Top radio insider poster (to qualify for this, the person has to be currently employed with a terrestrial broadcast operation)
* Out-of-town person most unlikely to participate in a Portland-centric message board
* Person most likely to be drunk while posting (no, this is not me today).

Top luddite is an interesting one. Generally, or some area in particular?

Best Individual Post - Jeff Clarke describing working as a security guard at a sewage treatment plant.
Best Thread - Any history thread started by Craig.
Top proponent of current industry policies - Nobody I can think of. However, when it comes to short playlists or the accuracy of Arbitron, Tdanner is right there.
Best Male Poster - Others already mentioned, plus Semoochie, who has been here from the beginning of the radio forum.
Best Radio History Poster - The obvious ones already mentioned, plus Jimbo.

> Top luddite is an interesting one. Generally, or
> some area in particular?

It's up to you.

Top luddite - Pocketradio has gotten banned from several boards for trolling against IBOC.
Top radio insider poster - Eastwood comes to mind, but since he is anonymous we don''t know for sure about his current employment status. Most insiders who do use their real names post infrequently and don't dare give away much inside info.

> Top luddite - Pocketradio has gotten banned from
> several boards for trolling against IBOC.

Wow! I had completely forgotten about that guy.

Perhaps, there should also be a bonus award for top troll?

Alfredo, Randy--

http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com/

More of the same repetitive copy & paste quotes and links, just on a different server. As usual almost nothing on the page is You-Know-Who's own writing. Looks to me like he must have gotten so sick of joining discussion forums only to end up in dev/null, that he apparently decided to strike out on his own. How pathetic.......

Yep; pocketradio wins this award fair & square! I was afraid that I might get nominated for my DTV boycott, but I guess that wasn't good enough.

To be honest, my take is that there a lot marketing guy B.S. out there, and that is just the world that we live in. I want to approach the issue from a scientific/engineering angle to cut through the marketing B.S. to find out the truth! How does product X or technology Y perform? What are the costs? Do the pros outweigh the cons (and what are appropriate metrics to use)? The problem with "pocketradio" and other similar people is that they come off as dogmatic, rather than as reasoned skeptics. These people are also called ideologues, and I feel like I've run across too damn many of them.

Here are my bonus picks:

* Top luddite - Pocketradio

* Top "those were the days" nostalgia poster - Deane Johnson

* Top broadcast industry critic - Roger

* Top proponent of current industry policies - Semoochie

* Top radio insider poster (to qualify for this, the person has to be currently employed with a terrestrial broadcast operation) - Craig Adams; honorable mention, Teri Danner

* Out-of-town person most unlikely to participate in a Portland-centric message board - Deane Johnson

* Person most likely to be drunk while posting - Ohhhh, I'd better refrain from nominating anybody for this one.

Okay, I'm kind of hurt. Not nominated, won't win.

Could I get a vote for "Person most likely to be drunk while posting" (after work hours anyhow)?

Or how about "Best one line snarky comments?"

Shamelessly pandering for votes,

Warner

How about " Person I see the most from that I know the least about." ?

In fact, I can't even remember if we get along with one another.

Do we like each other?

Yes CJ, you love Warner, as do I!

I'm still working on my ballot, but this one is a lock:

Person/people that you wish would post (much) more often:
Warner
TheDude

P.S. I'm still wondering if that "Love-in Partner" category means that I should list which posters I secretly have huge "crushes" on.

And where the #%&* is Entre_Nous?
LS, get her back here!

Funniest thread EVAR - DT posting after a night on the town in St. Louis.

I know he was embarrassed, there's no reason to be sir. Hilarity ensued for sure!

I gotta add to this thoroughly enjoyable back patting festival:

• Top instigator of great threads -- Chickenjuggler
• Poster who is missed most when they do not post -- Warner, Newflyer, Entre nous, Fatboy Roberts, Mike Kolb, Scott Young and many others
• Top "those were the days" nostalgia poster -- Oldtom, Craig Adams, Kq4, Dan Packard and many others
• Top night owl -- Craig Adams, Skeptical, Randy in Eugene, Trixter
• Top broadcast industry critic -- Roger
• Top critic as a loyal listener -- Darktemper
• Top beneficiary & proponent of current industry policies is probably a better question :0)
• Top zinger -- Chickenjuggler, Reinstatepete, Mrs. Merkin
• Top radio insider poster -- Craig Adams, Craig Walker, Bob Miller, Stoner, Chris Taylor, Kent Randles, Scott Young, Andy Brown and many others
• Out-of-town person most unlikely to participate in a Portland-centric message board -- Outsider, Deane
• Poster who is most fun without the baiting and politics -- Deane, Herb
• Poster most likely to give a rational response -- Chris Taylor, Edselehr, Missing KSKD, Andy Brown

I haven't posted in several months, but I check in every day. This has been a fun thread to watch.

I have been busy starting a new company, and dealing with some of my son's pre-transplant tests.

Why start a new company at my age? There's a good reason. A good Republican can never make too much money.

Good on you Deane. Any hints on what kind of company?

I've good thoughts for your son. I'm sure everybody here does.

Yeah Warner! Post more dammit! The Mrs gets cranky without her fix.

Entre nous: It's a rare woman that can come in here and toss it up with us opinionated asses. You are totally welcome and missed.

"Any hints on what kind of company?"

In due time.

Well good luck. We are in startup mode again too. Ugly, as always. About to secure some funding and finally be able to build infrastructure.

From there, maybe it's some growth and a few less plan trips!

Welcome back Deane!
How's your son???

I will try and post more for sure.

And, here's something I never thought I'd say;

Good to see you back, Deane! Seriously. I hope your family issues work out somehow. I've had quite a year of family issues myself.

Chickenjuggler: Yes, we get along fine. I enjoy your posts immensely. You don't know much about me because I don't tell much.

I'm the resident over 50 super "leftie" (as Herb would say) music fan guy here.

"How's your son???"

Thanks for asking. Actually, he's in great shape, the best he's been for years. Problem is keeping him that way. His vein access for IV feeding is shot and if anything happens, and he starts to get into nutritional trouble, we won't be able to turn him around and save him. That brings him to an intestinal transplant, or possibly a bowel lengthening procedure. We're not sure what yet.

I am glad he is feeling great, but for all of your family, I wish it were better news Deane. He is in our prayers, magic incantations and atheist hopes -- did I miss anyone? Give him a 50kw hug from all of us!!

Great to see you too.

Ditto what Littlesongs said.

Deane I still have loads of fond memories of being around both your boys.

Plus I am not surprised you're starting up another company, it's in your blood.

GREAT to hear Deane! I pray everyday for your son....

kq4 posted:

<<<plus,>>>>


Wow. The Lonely Lady! I remember that movie. What a piece of crap! I had completely forgotten about it until your post.

and now, courtesy of youtube, is Pia Zadora with this song....(I couldn't find any clips of the Lonely Lady. Just as well).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUd1gJbs490

Dean you and your family obviously are not out of the water yet but as a transplant recipent myself I can sympathize with the stress, anxiety, and fear you are going through. How old is your son? Does he have friends or others aside from family that he can communicate his thoughts with? My transplant was minor in comparision but I understand all the motions you and your family are forced to go through.

He's 44 and developmentally disabled so all of the care and decisions fall on us. We've lived with the issues for years so it's a bit more routine than if it were something out of the blue.

You may know that intestinal transplants are the most difficult of all to do and make work. Fortunately, we live about 15 minutes from the leading intestinal transplant hospital in the U.S., and only one of four in the U.S. able to do them. At least we don't have the grueling experience of having to travel on top of the other issues involved with a transplant.

We're hopeful of avoiding one with the bowel lengthening procedure, but don't know yet if that's even possible with him. We see the surgeon that does it on March 11.

I guess I didn't fully answer your questions Shyguy, and I certainly appreciate your interest.

He communicates pretty fully with us and has indicated repeatedly that he wants to go ahead with it. We have tried to let him know the risks by explaining that if four people have this transplant, one will die from it and that one might be him. He still wants to go ahead.

Keep us updated Deane please.

One thing about this message board that I have come to appreciate, even with our different political and religious backgrounds there is a genuine concern for the well being of other posters.

Yes, please do.

What a tough decision. He sounds strong. Bet that plays into his favor.

Chris, I like that too. Nobody wants to see bad stuff happen to the others.

WHO WON?????

So Sorry, This weekend was hectic with the partial laptop crash and hours spent fixing it. Will look at it and tally up what is here when I can.

I think it safe to say though that HERB win's Biggest Ass Kisser!

Now wait, when you say Herb is biggest ass kisser, do you actually mean BIGGEST ASS KISSER OR BIGGEST ASS???
No wait that would be me! HA!
Have we decided coolest car yet?

What else could it be, The "Denim Edition Pacer"!

Of are you thinking of the Levi Gremlin?

Levi Gremlin was in the Four Tops.

OK....This is about as good as it get's as nobody stuck with the categories. So if you don't like it to bad!

And the Winners Are:

Best Male Poster - Missing_kskd
Best Female Poster - Mrs_merkin
Best Individual Post - To Many To Choose One
Worst Individual Post - To Many To Choose One
Best Thread - The Boss tied with Rush
Worst Thread - The Boss
Most Consistently High-Quality Poster - ChickenJuggler
Most Consisently Off-Topic Poster - Nwokie/62kgw
Most Consistently Funny Poster - Mrs_merkin
Most Memorable Thread - That out of Town drunk thingy
Most Argumentative Poster - Herb, Wayne, Nwokie
Least Intelligible Poster - Djfrresh
Biggest Flirt - Justin_timberfake and his Yugo
Biggest Ass-Kisser - Herb
Biggest Sense Of Humour - Mrs_merkin
Biggest Waste Of Time - Wayne
Biggest Pedant - Littlesongs
Poorest Loser - Wayne
Most Improved Poster - Shyguy
Least Improved Poster - Herb
Forum Deathmatch Fighters - Reinstatepete vs Wayne or Digitaldexter
Forum Love-in Partners - None Chosen

Write in Categories:

Most Missed - Reinstatepete
Least Missed - Wayne
Best Radio History Poster - Craig_adams
Top Ludite - Pocketradio
Top Broadcast Industry Critic - Roger
Top Proponent of Broadcast Industry Policies - Semoochie
Top Critic as a Loyal Listener - Darktemper

We are still missing categories for MC74, Deane, and Vitalogy.

Well, just put them in the "Forum Love-in Partners" then.....nobody's got that spot!

Well, I guess that's just life. Everybody forgot about Motozak again. Figures.

Excuse me now, whilst I relegate myself to Gopherspace............

Least missed- Wayne. LOL!!

Forum Deathmatch Fighters should be Trixter and I.

I think that the winners should give acceptance speeches.

SPEECH! SPEECH! SPEECH!

Thank You, Thank You!

I don't remember a thing about that night!

I appreciate you guys and gals always reminding me about it!


Next

Oh, and for the other....Rock On KGON! Just play some new music from Rush and Scorpions would ya pleeeeez!

I value this forum and all of you very highly.

And Motozak gets the award for best old schooler!

Keep on doing what you are doing man. I think you are all right.

The PILF "If only I were younger, thinner and single award" goes to Motozak.

(Shared with somebody else who shall remain hairless)

Well it seems this is a lot like youth sports, everybody is a winner!

Please pick up your certificate of participation at the PDX RADIO office complex after April 30th.

But mostly, Thanks for being you.

Mrs. M a multi winner? Hope she isn't too good for us now. Watch her prices go up though.....

"Well it seems this is a lot like youth sports, everybody is a winner!"

I was thinking more along the lines of "Special Olympics"

I was thinking more along the lines of "Special Olympics"

Vern does Special Olympics Track, Bowling, and Basketball here in McMinnville!
:-)

http://www.soor.org
Sign up to volunteer!

Forum Deathmatch Fighters should be Trixter and I.

YES!

In a cage, with Tanya as the ref. Herb can sell Hot Dogs On A Stick™ since that's where Tanya used to work.

I put my bucks on Trix, since the "age and experience will always trump youth and...(whatever the other thingy is)".

Cockiness!

No Roosters allowed!

Noc cockfights aloud. OK?

Ya, do them quietly!