Ruddy hell, it's the Grand Final!
Well, it's the final of Lovely of the Year 2007, and for once I'm going to get the contest finished before Christmas, not that there's ever been one before, or will there be again. We started with 40 contestants, and a further eight or however many it was sought to qualify via the Wild Card Playoff, except I cancelled it to save time. Now, only two remain, and the flurry of late votes for rhodri that came in after the semi-final had finished failed to prevent me, of all people, from somehow scraping into the final, which I will lose to Stephen Fry. Barring a miracle, Stephen will therefore win the coveted Lovely of the Year 2007 trophy, which I can reveal is the TRC508 which I ordered from thetrophystore.co.uk, except they were supposed to deliver it last Friday but didn't and it's now somewhere or other between Stockport and London, although the man that runs the thetrophystore.co.uk told me yesterday that it should be delivered to my work address today, not that I believe him for one f#cking second. Anyway, I noticed on Tuesday that publicansdecoy had asked the people who nominated the finalists for Arsehole of the Year to write some blurb for them, so bearing in mind I'm copying everything he does I emailed my finalists' nominees inviting them to do just that, except neither has replied. I suppose it's understandable in way, because where do you begin summing up the loveliness of Stephen Fry. And I imagine that if you're trying to think of something lovely to say about me, then that must be similarly impossible. Anyway here are
Finalist 1 - Stephen Fry
Route to the final: R1 Won Pool A with 96.4% of people voting for him; R2 d. Warren Buffet 63-8; QF d. Jarvis Cocker 63-17; SF d. John Smeaton 70-13.
So anyway first up is this year's winner, Stephen Fry, who was nominated by perfectlyvague. She says:
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Finalist 2 - wardytron
Route to the final: R1 Won Pool C with 72.5% of people voting for him; R2 d. Nick Baker 53-12; QF d. Jon Snow 49-29; SF d. rhodri 41-40.
wardytron, was nominated by bagrec. He says:
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So those are your two finalists. To try and prolong the 'excitement' a bit, the following poll will be a text entry box with answers viewable to nobody but me, in line with the Ballot Act of 1872, which as you know introduced the use of the secret ballot into parliamentary elections. On Livejournal the secret ballot is mainly used for those polls that say "Tell me a secret", or "Ask me a question". If you like you can use your text box to tell me a secret or ask me a question, secure in the knowledge that your secret or question will be treated in the strictest of confidence. In fact, I probably won't even bother to read it, and you can't get much more confidential than that, can you. Anyway voting closes next week some time. I'll announce the result some time after that, and publish the full list of votes to show there was no cheating, assuming there actually was no cheating, about which I'm not prepared to make any promises at this stage.
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Finalist 1 - Stephen Fry
Route to the final: R1 Won Pool A with 96.4% of people voting for him; R2 d. Warren Buffet 63-8; QF d. Jarvis Cocker 63-17; SF d. John Smeaton 70-13.
So anyway first up is this year's winner, Stephen Fry, who was nominated by perfectlyvague. She says:
" ".
Finalist 2 - wardytron
Route to the final: R1 Won Pool C with 72.5% of people voting for him; R2 d. Nick Baker 53-12; QF d. Jon Snow 49-29; SF d. rhodri 41-40.
wardytron, was nominated by bagrec. He says:
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So those are your two finalists. To try and prolong the 'excitement' a bit, the following poll will be a text entry box with answers viewable to nobody but me, in line with the Ballot Act of 1872, which as you know introduced the use of the secret ballot into parliamentary elections. On Livejournal the secret ballot is mainly used for those polls that say "Tell me a secret", or "Ask me a question". If you like you can use your text box to tell me a secret or ask me a question, secure in the knowledge that your secret or question will be treated in the strictest of confidence. In fact, I probably won't even bother to read it, and you can't get much more confidential than that, can you. Anyway voting closes next week some time. I'll announce the result some time after that, and publish the full list of votes to show there was no cheating, assuming there actually was no cheating, about which I'm not prepared to make any promises at this stage.
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