The 2009 Best of Subsim Awards!

Jimbuna · 12-04-09, 11:56 AM

I'll come up with my list in a day or two....just point me to the ballot box

TarJak · 12-04-09, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

I'll come up with my list in a day or two....just point me to the ballot box

Its underneath Gordon Brown's chair. Steed put it there.

Aramike · 12-04-09, 04:35 PM

Acceptance of nominations will close on Sunday!

I'm goin' down · 12-04-09, 07:43 PM

How in the hell do you accept a nomination?

How about this? "Nominations close on Sunday."

Aramike · 12-04-09, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

How in the hell do you accept a nomination?

How about this? "Nominations close on Sunday."

Huh? Does both phrases not mean the same thing?

I'm goin' down · 12-05-09, 12:13 AM

If that is what you meant, then they mean the same thing. I thought you were giving nominees the opton to opt out and decline their nominations.

Sailor Steve · 12-05-09, 01:50 PM

Yep, "acceptance" usually comes from a proposed candidate: "I accept the nomination", or, as Lyndon Baines Johnson famously said, "If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve."

Aramike · 12-05-09, 04:09 PM

I was thinking along the lines of "entries after 12/6 will not be accepted for consideration", which is almost verbatim the language used for the legalize on certain lottery tickets.

12-05-09, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Yep, "acceptance" usually comes from a proposed candidate: "I accept the nomination", or, as Lyndon Baines Johnson famously said, "If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve."

That was William T. Sherman that said that.
Unfortunately, you got stuck with LBJ. (Worste US President, IMO).
You probably served him, rather than he serve you.

Aramike · 12-07-09, 08:50 AM

Okay, nominations are closed! Thanks for all of your input here and via PM! We all appreciate it.

Sailor Steve · 12-07-09, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Snestorm

That was William T. Sherman that said that.

You're absolutely right. Once again, someone who allegedly know everything betrays his ignorance.

Of course Bobby Kennedy's famous statement "Some men see things as they are and ask 'Why?' I dream things that never were and ask 'Why not?'" was actually 'borrowed' from George Bernard Shaw.

And now I'm reminded of the great lines from Fiddler On The Roof:

Tevye: As Abraham said, "I am a stranger in a strange land... ”
Mendel: Moses said that.
Tevye: Ah. Well, as King David said, "I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."
Mendel: That was also Moses.
Tevye: For a man who was slow of tongue, he talked a lot.

12-04-09, 11:56 AM	#1
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,446 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I'll come up with my list in a day or two....just point me to the ballot box __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-04-09, 07:43 PM	#4
I'm goin' down Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Notify command we have entered the Grass Sea Posts: 2,822 Downloads: 813 Uploads: 0	huh? How in the hell do you accept a nomination? How about this? "Nominations close on Sunday."

12-05-09, 01:50 PM	#7
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Yep, "acceptance" usually comes from a proposed candidate: "I accept the nomination", or, as Lyndon Baines Johnson famously said, "If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve." __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

12-04-09, 04:35 PM	#3
Aramike Ocean Warrior Best of SUBSIM Chairman Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 3,207 Downloads: 59 Uploads: 0	Acceptance of nominations will close on Sunday!

12-05-09, 12:13 AM	#6
I'm goin' down Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Notify command we have entered the Grass Sea Posts: 2,822 Downloads: 813 Uploads: 0	If that is what you meant, then they mean the same thing. I thought you were giving nominees the opton to opt out and decline their nominations.

12-05-09, 04:09 PM	#8
Aramike Ocean Warrior Best of SUBSIM Chairman Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 3,207 Downloads: 59 Uploads: 0	I was thinking along the lines of "entries after 12/6 will not be accepted for consideration", which is almost verbatim the language used for the legalize on certain lottery tickets.

12-07-09, 08:50 AM	#10
Aramike Ocean Warrior Best of SUBSIM Chairman Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 3,207 Downloads: 59 Uploads: 0	Okay, nominations are closed! Thanks for all of your input here and via PM! We all appreciate it.