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>Best TV Comedy of the year: jaaaaam
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>Best Radio Comedy of the year: The Nualas
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>Worst TV Comedy of the year: Meet Ricky Gervais
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>Worst Radio Comedy of the year: Dead Ringers
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>Best Film of the year: Dogma
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>Worst Film of the year: American Beauty
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>Best Single of the year: Ladytron 'Playgirl'
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>Best Album of the year: Clinic 'Internal Wrangler'
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>Worst Single of the year: MC Luck and DJ Neat 'With A Little Bit Of Luck'
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>Worst Album of the year: Craig David 'I Am Called Craig David'
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>Best Book of the year: Allan Brown 'Inside The Wicker Man'
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>Worst Book of the year: Jim Yoakum 'Graham Crackers'. Wish I hadn't bought it now.
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>Favourite Websites: SOTCAA, The TV Lounge, Gorilla Salad, Cook'd And Bomb'd, Radio HaHa, the Magazine one that Bent Halo is involved with (couldn't remember the name - sorry!), Lee and Herring, ExpectDelay's My Bloody Valentine site, Invicta Hi-Fi
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>Worst Websites: I don't bother looking at them
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>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons: Gail Porter, Brigitte Bardot, Mira from Ladytron, Sally Phillips, Ailie Hurst, Suiii
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>Favourite Forum Contributors: all of them... but in particular Ailie, Bent Halo, Suiii, Mr G, Sam D, Richard Herring, tim_e, Jon, Ewar Woowar, Mogwai (where's he gone???), Jason Hazeley (ditto), George, The Corpses, Justin, and inevtiably Gas Bottle and The Clown. And probably loads of others that I've forgotten. Sorry!
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>Stupidest Name In The World: Possibly Jim Yoakum. Or Victoria Zadoyan.
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>Most Hated Person: The 'Z'
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>How Should Iain Lee be punished?: by being forced to watch one of his own performances
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>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA: the 'comment' section, and the page on The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
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>Most Unexpected Thing: The Spanish Inquisition
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>Worst Ident: Anglia
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>Best TV Comedy of the year:
jam, I guess. Or Seinfeld. Or the one episode of Black Books I've seen so far.
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>Best Radio Comedy of the year:
Is The Sunday Format back yet? Do Mark & Lard count?
>Worst TV Comedy of the year:
I'm so bored I'm not going to nominate the obvious. Um...of course! Meet Ricky Gervaise. What else?
>Worst Radio Comedy of the year:
Any comedy-drama - an insult to both terms.
>Best Film of the year:
Being John Malkovich.
>Worst Film of the year:
Hmmm...I'll come back to that.
>Best Single of the year:
Time Is Now by Moloko. Alright, it was a big hit and there goes any cred, but sod it, loved it.
>Best Album of the year:
Steely Dan. Or Saint Etienne's Sound Of Water.
>Worst Single of the year:
Rock DJ, obviously.
>Worst Album of the year:
Would I have put myself through a whole album of that?!
>Best Book of the year:
"Easy Riders, Raging Bulls"
>Worst Book of the year:
Too many to mention
>Favourite Websites:
SOTCAA (RIP)...that'll do.
>Worst Websites:
If I thought Dan L would come back, I'd say The Gusset.
>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons:
Janeane Garofalo, Anna Ford, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
>Favourite Forum Contributors:
Oh God....in no particular order: Al (because I've known him for ten years and he is a top man), Jon (for reminsicing on 80s comedy), Bent Halo (for knowing it all in the best possible way), Ewar (such regular complimetns!), TJ (because I am him), Jason Hazeley (ditto), Rob S (for helping to make it all possible), and of course, two nameless individuals without whom comedy on the net would have still been largely rubbish (think we know who). That said, most people on here are fab.
>Stupidest Name In The World:
Ummm...I'll come back to that.
>Most Hated Person:
Oh, I don't want to get into this. But Jamie Theakston.
>How Should Iain Lee be punished?:
Obscurity.
>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA:
How long have you got?
>Most Unexpected Thing:
Being 30. (It's been a predictable year, you could see.)
>Worst Ident:
McDonalds (did it *have* to be a telly one?)
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>Best TV Comedy of the year: The Ali G show (sorry, I could probably come up with something better if my memory was 'in')
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>Best Radio Comedy of the year: Don't listen to the radio much these days I'm afraid...
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>Worst TV Comedy of the year: I think I'll leave this...
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>Worst Radio Comedy of the year: See above
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>Best Film of the year: Don't watch films
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>Worst Film of the year: See above
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>Best Single of the year: On The Beach - York
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>Best Album of the year: Don't buy albums anymore
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>Worst Single of the year: Anything by Daphne and Celeste
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>Worst Album of the year: See above
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>Best Book of the year: Don't read books that much
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>Worst Book of the year: See above
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>Favourite Websites: Championship Manager messageboard, BBC, TV Ark, Sat Kids
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>Worst Websites: ITV
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>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons: That's my secret...
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>Favourite Forum Contributors: Don't know, only been here 3 days...
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>Stupidest Name In The World: Tarquin
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>Most Hated Person: Dale Winton
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>How Should Iain Lee be punished?: At Her Majesty's Pleasure
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>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA: I never saw it in the first place so...
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>Most Unexpected Thing: The cash windfall that enabled me to buy this PC
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>Worst Ident: Carlton Carlton Carlton Carlton Carlton Carlton Carlton Carlton Carlton...
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And that completes the votes of the inexperienced jury.
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>Best TV Comedy of the year: Well, Black Books is looking very promising, and The Simpsons (natch)
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>Best Radio Comedy of the year: Don't listen to any.
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>Worst TV Comedy of the year: Ricky Gervaise, 11OCS, Fiends.
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>Worst Radio Comedy of the year:
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>Best Film of the year: Too many to name.
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>Worst Film of the year: Final Destination, The Beach, American Beauty
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>Best Single of the year: Lonestar-Amazed, Radiohead-How To Disappear...etc, Tarkan-Unut Beni
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>Best Album of the year: Tarkan-Olurum Sana, Kid A, Skunk Anansie-Post Orgasmic Chill
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>Worst Single of the year: Anything by Eminem or Robbie W.
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>Worst Album of the year: Music by Madonna, really disappointing.
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>Best Book of the year: Sunboiled Onions, anything by Bill Bryson
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>Worst Book of the year: I love all the books I've bought so far this year.
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>Favourite Websites: This one, Diva, The Register, Bubblegun, some...er...adult sites!
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>Worst Websites: Cakeshop, Reach 4, The Weekly, vnunet.com, Sonow.
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>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons: The Sawalha Sisters, Caroline Quentin, Kathy Burke, Liza Tarbuck, Angie Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Mrs Kennedy from Neighbours, Anna Hruby, Pepe Trevor.....this could go on forever really.
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>Favourite Forum Contributors: TJ, RB, Ewar, Kinder, John, Evil Gas Bottle, Clown and Blue Flame, Arma, Ailie, aaaaah can it, you're all great!
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>Stupidest Name In The World: "Kenickie"
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>Most Hated Person: Er....there's about 5.9 billion currently on 'the list'
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>How Should Iain Lee be punished?: Very slowly and painfully, my rabbit is willing to help.
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>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA: Edit News, Comment, them mocking us forumites, made me feel loved.
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>Most Unexpected Thing: That nurse from the other week!!! *g*
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>Worst Ident: All of them, all evil.
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Pheeeew. Tiring.
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>Best TV Comedy of the year: stars iunt theri eyes
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>Best Radio Comedy of the year: inteh the lexicpgraphers's chair
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>Worst TV Comedy of the year: menm bhehaving badlty
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>Worst Radio Comedy of the year: blekase's seven or krull
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>Best Film of the year: my luife as a sleeve or basil tyhe great cheese deteecivtive
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>Worst Film of the year: ian levine
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>Best Single of the year: you are listneing to my voice by ross perot
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>Best Album of the year: test card musci voluem forty seven the one with smaba! samba! samba! by gerhard narholz and his samba gals
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>Worst Single of the year: helpfukl nele morrissey does the washing by framptions jaw
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>Worst Album of the year: tony parsons greatest hit
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>Best Book of the year: idents and hwo i stoipped them by michael grade
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>Worst Book of the year: tehs teriible story of subbes
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>Favourite Websites: andrdwe wisemans 625 tleelvision room
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>Worst Websites: mhp idents! ifents! idenst!
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>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons: girl from of test cvard
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>Favourite Forum Contributors: gas bottle
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>Stupidest Name In The World: jimg youakem
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>Most Hated Person: nele morrissey
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>How Should Iain Lee be punished?: he will eart a lareg garden rake
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>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA: funnery talkw with dannyeteree walalcee
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>Most Unexpected Thing: idents kidnappeing suuiiu
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>Worst Ident: ALL OFG THEM
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Suiii, you fancy Liza Tarbuck too?
Can we share her?
I'm sure we could come to an arrangement!
Any time!
Maybe Gas Bottle, Clown and Blue Flame can help us to kidnap her?
Between the two of us, we could easily seduce her with our combined charm...
She's bound to love us! You bring the syrup, I'll bring the fluffycuffs!
We're going to syrup her? Nice!
Or is it syrup me?
Or even you?
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......syrup.
*ahem* We can all get syruped up! I bet she'd love it!
Let's make it so!
Mail me, and I'll get in touch with liza...
Meanwhile, back at the poll:
This is all off the top of my head and I will probably disagree with it tomorrow, but:
>Best TV Comedy of the year:
I'd say jam, but does that really count as a comedy? Ah, fuck it, jam.
>Best Radio Comedy of the year:
I always mean to listen to radio comedy, but always forget. I have heard half an episode of Dead Ringers and about ten minutes of the News Huddlines, so by default they are my favourites, unless I can count tapes of KMKY and RealAudio files of On The Hour. And a bit of a Frank Sidebottom 'Radio Timperly' that I stumbled across a couple of months ago. That was fab.
>Worst TV Comedy of the year:
Pay and Display. At least I've laughed a FEW times at 11OCS.
>Worst Radio Comedy of the year:
Again, it has to be half of an episode of Dead Ringers and ten minutes of the Huddlines, by default. Actually, it's the Huddlines, cos when Roy said "if it's good enough for Newman, it's good enough for Hudd" it disturbed me greatly for reasons I don't understand, and that sentence was spinning round my head for the next day. This, sadly, is true.
>Best Film of the year:
The only films I saw this year were Pokemon (I took my little brother, OK?!) and X-Men, so X-Men, which I did enjoy. I'd say Dogma, but it came out last year.
>Worst Film of the year:
Pokemon. Again, by default.
>Best Single of the year:
Pinhead Gunpowder/Dillinger Four split 7". You have not heard of these bands and I have, ergo I am best.
>Best Album of the year:
The Get Up Kids - 'Something to Write Home About'. Well, technically it was released in 1999, but it only got a Euro release this year. So it counts. Yes.
>Worst Single of the year:
Madonna - Music.
>Worst Album of the year:
I dunno, don't buy or listen to albums I don't like. A mate was playing that David Gray one one time though and it was pretty awful.
>Best Book of the year:
Powder or, if I can have a graphic novel, Ghost World. Both were published before this year, but came out in a certain format this year blah blah.
>Worst Book of the year:
'White City Blue' by Tim Lott. Not BAD as such, just disappointing and predictable.
>Favourite Websites:
The Register, SOTCAA, Fracture Fanzine, Melon Farmers (film censorship), that Neil Morrissey/Ident thing
>Worst Websites:
As with albums, I tend not to take too much notice of stuff I don't like. Sorry.
>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons:
At the moment: Janeane Garofalo, Steph Scully, Susan Kennedy, Liza Tarbuck, Janine off of Eastenders (shut up), Davina McCall (ditto), Elaine off of Eastenders and too many more to mention. It seems other forum people have similar tastes to me. How odd.
>Favourite Forum Contributors:
I love you all equally, but Gas Bottle and Evil Clown From Forums Logo! Logo! (or whatever) more equally than the rest of youse.
>Stupidest Name In The World:
Kevin Squelch (he is going to be a contestant on the next episode of 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire. It's worth watching that just to see odd names of contestants. Kevin Squelch and Barrington Snelling are the best I've seen so far.)
>Most Hated Person:
I hate nobody. No, really. Except Robbie Williams. Twat.
>How Should Iain Lee be punished?:
He should have his eyebrows cut off and be forced to watch back to back re-runs of the 11 O'Clock show while being anally violated by a 12ft giant constantly screaming "is being 'bummed' funny now, "Iain Lee"? Well, is it? ISSSSSS ITTTTTT?!" Maybe I went a bit too far there. Sorry. Maybe a slap on the wrist and a ban on appearing in any form of media for the rest of his life would be more appropriate. Yes.
>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA:
Edit News.
>Most Unexpected Thing:
Everything.
>Worst Ident:
Carlton 1992-present.
RE: Iain Lee's punishment.
I meant eyeLIDS, not brows.
I like Davina too
Best TV Comedy of the year: Due to my being ex-patriot and things, I should have to vote for Who's Line...? repeats that I saw for the first time over here. Or TLog, because we don't get much here.
Best Radio Comedy of the year: I'm sorry, I Haven't A Clue. On tape.
Worst TV Comedy of the year: That thing at 11 o clock.
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Best Book of the year: White Oleander by Janet Fitch.
Worst Book of the year: City Girls by some Christian trollop.
Favourite Websites: this one, sotcaa, http://www.btinternet.com/~john.bailey/ and the weekly if it ever does come back.
Worst Websites: *evil smile* gusset.
Favourite Lust Icon or Icons: <censored>
Favourite Forum Contributors: Suiii, Jon, Justin, Dr. Hackenbush, and quite a few others who i would mention but can't because.... er.
Stupidest Name In The World: mine?
Most Hated Person: People who don't use their turn signals.
How Should Iain Lee be punished?: A bucket of cutard and some ferrets.
What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA: All of it.
Most Unexpected Thing: That thing, behind you.
Worst Ident: carlton
I saw Davina filming 'Streetmate' in Manchester. I got excited, the friend I was with (he of David Gray album-ownership mentioned a few posts ago) was nonplussed just cos he gets to meet celebs where he works (in an airport. In a Burger King.). He didn't realise that me seeing my object d'lust (as they say in France, probably) was so important to me.
I could've seen her at Reading too, cos apparently she came out on stage (filming Streetmate again) just after Idlewild finished, but that would've meant enduring Idlewild's set...
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>Best TV Comedy of the year: Jaaam, Black Books
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>Best Radio Comedy of the year: Little Britain
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>Worst TV Comedy of the year: Harry Enfields Rank Wanking New Show
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>Worst Radio Comedy of the year: Buggered if I know
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>Best Film of the year: Being John Malkovitch/ Toy Story 2
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>Worst Film of the year: Too many to mention.
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>Best Single of the year: The only single I bought was 'The Masses Against the Classes'- that was pretty good. And that Lauren Laverne one. 'Facts of Life' was good too...
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>Best Album of the year: Asian Dub Foundation 'Community Music', Radiohead 'Kid A', Morbid Angel 'Gateways to Annihilation', Black Box Recorder 'The Facts of Life'
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>Worst Single of the year: Erm...
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>Worst Album of the year: Christ...
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>Best Book of the year: Haven't bought any recent books.
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>Favourite Websites: SOTCAA, Internet Movie Database
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>Worst Websites: Fuck off will you!
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>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons: Salma Hayek, Alyson Hannigan, Lauren Laverne, Miki Berenyi, Indira Varma, Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan, Sarah Alexander, Marion Pashley.
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>Favourite Forum Contributors: Love you all- special mention to Jon (for stretching my underused brain) Ewar Woowar (I love you really) and whatever pseudonym Steve is using.
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>Stupidest Name In The World: J R R Tolkien
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>Most Hated Person: Hate is too negative to be part of anyone's personality. However, Jim Davidson is a cunt.
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>How Should Iain Lee be punished?: He shouldn't, being himself is punishment enough.
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>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA: I had to go and get a life, which is far more expensive.
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>Most Unexpected Thing: Waking up in a park next to someone called Olaf.
>Best TV Comedy of the year:
Black Books, Futurama, Simpsons, Seinfeld
>Best Radio Comedy of the year:
Pass
>Worst TV Comedy of the year:
Harry Enfield's thing on Sky
>Worst Radio Comedy of the year:
Pass
>Best Film of the year:
'Three Kings'
>Worst Film of the year:
I tend to avoid films I think I'll hate. As a sci fi fan I'd have to say 'Battlefield Earth' looked like a stinker
>Best Single of the year:
Junkie XL - Zerotonine
>Best Album of the year:
Nightmares on Wax - Car Boot Soul (although that might be last year - if it is then Saint Etienne, or Hybrid)
>Worst Single of the year:
Anything by Destiny's Child
>Worst Album of the year:
I don't know, but I imagine the Destiny's Child album was pretty poor
>Best Book of the year:
Douglas Coupland - Miss Wyoming (not even his best and still towers above everything else)
Bill Drummond - 45
>Worst Book of the year:
My partner reads a lot more than me and tells me that Linda Grant's new book is very poor.
>Favourite Websites:
SOTCAA, The Onion
>Worst Websites:
pass
>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons:
This year and every year: Sophie Raworth, Katie Puckrick, Gillian Anderson
>Favourite Forum Contributors:
Impossible to choose. Justin is an old friend and a fine forum contributor. Jon is a new friend, and a fine wit. I don't want to mention more names because I'm bound to miss someone out. I really like nearly everyone on here...
Oh alright
Ewar; Ailie; TJ; Suiii; John!; Jase; Simon Adebisi; Simon Harries, Mr Griff, Dr H, PJ, Mike J (lots of Js), Sam D, george, subbes, and almost certainly others...
>Stupidest Name In The World:
Cyril
>Most Hated Person:
(for stupid reasons) Julie Burchill
(for serious reasons) Hague/Widdicome
>How Should Iain Lee be punished?:
Oh, leave him alone
>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA:
The comment section
>Most Unexpected Thing:
The overthrow of Milosevic
>Worst Ident:
IDENTS IDENTS nele morisey IDENTS MUST DIE
Best TV Comedy of the year:
I don't actually watch much TV these days. 'Black Books' is the only thing I'm really bothered about at the moment.
Best Radio Comedy of the year:
Virtually never hear it these days either. I heard a few "99p shows" and thought Pegg was the best thing on them, but they were nothing special. Don't like "The Now Show" much.
Worst TV Comedy of the year:
11OCS (last IL/DD season)
Worst Radio Comedy of the year:
Dunno
Best Film of the year:
Scream3 (only one I've seen, so far)
Worst Film of the year:
Dunno.
Best Single of the year:
"The Agony Without The Ecstasy" - Fosca
Best Album of the year:
"On Earth To Make The Numbers Up" - Fosca
Worst Single of the year:
God knows. Too many to choose from.
Worst Album of the year:
Without haveing heard it, I have no doubts about picking "Kid A"
Best Book of the year:
"Three Rival Versions Of Moral Enquiry" by Alasdair MacIntyre was the best book I read. I did not read any books published this year.
Worst Book of the year:
Dunno (see previous answer)
Favourite Websites:
SOTCAA, L&H, The Onion, TVGH (for a while).
Worst Websites:
The Bob Enyart quotes site; born-again Christian bigotry in general (there are millions to choose from). And all C4 forums, they are bastards.
Favourite Lust Icon or Icons:
Ewar Woowar, Sarah Alexander, Daljit Daliwal (ITN news)
Favourite Forum Contributors:
Justin, Al, Simon Adebisi, george, TJ, PJ, Ailie, Simon harries, Bent Halo, Mogwai, Dr Hackenbush, and of course the mighty Ewar Woowar, we are not fit to bask in the light of her glory.
Stupidest Name In The World:
Perle Wimberley
Most Hated Person:
Bob Enyart. And also the person who signs as "the numerical constant pi" in the Reach4 forum, who I discovered yesterday: author of the most ignorant, sanctimonious, Daily Mail Letters Page shite ever witnessed on earth.
How Should Iain Lee be punished?:
His new gameshow "Iain Lee's Leaning Iains" (HTV, 3pm, Thursday). Various overweight men call Iain attempt to lean over the prostate form of IL without falling down and crushing him.
What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA:
That you could get it on-line. And the contents.
Most Unexpected Thing:
IL quitting over "script quality".
Worst Ident: Channel 4. They've had it for years, why not change it?
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>Best TV Comedy of the year:
Jam
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>Best Radio Comedy of the year:
99p Challenge
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>Worst TV Comedy of the year:
11ocs
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>Worst Radio Comedy of the year:
Dunno
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>Best Film of the year:
Being John Malkovich
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>Worst Film of the year:
Bedazzled, no doubt.
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>Best Single of the year:
"Porcelain" - I know, I know, you're sick of it...
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>Best Album of the year:
Death in Vegas "The Contino Sessions" - was that this year or last? Last 12 months, anyway.
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>Worst Single of the year:
Robbie Williams
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>Worst Album of the year:
Robbie Williams
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>Best Book of the year:
I'm half way through The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin and it's pretty good. Incidentally, if anyone can confirm the correct pronunciation of his name, I'll be your best friend. Or leave you alone. Whatever.
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>Worst Book of the year:
Probably Bridget Jones. These questions are hard. I don't usually read/watch/listen to things that are bad.
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>Favourite Websites:
sotcaa, Sian's Comedy Wardrobe.
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>Worst Websites:
C4 forums.
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>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons:
How long have you got? I seem to fancy *everybody* these days... I'll limit myself to three: Louis Theroux, John Cusak, Moby
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>Favourite Forum Contributors:
I don't want to leave anyone out either! I love you all.
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>Stupidest Name In The World:
Ewar Woowar
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>Most Hated Person:
Robbie Williams
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>How Should Iain Lee be punished?:
Robbie Williams
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>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA:
The archive-y stuff.
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>Most Unexpected Thing:
Losing everything.
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>Worst Ident:
the one htat stoppexd the site
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Incidentally, alot of contributors seem to fancy big-faced women (Garofalo, Louis-Dreyfus, Tarbuck). I approve of this. It gives me hope.
It's a bit early for all this business, but sod it.
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>Best TV Comedy of the year:
ummm....
>Best Radio Comedy of the year:
Where is this fabled radio comedy? I caught a Saturday Night Fry and a couple of VLS about 9 years ago, but me ole legs ain't what they were and I can't chase around like I did, you know.
>Worst TV Comedy of the year:
Probably something on either ITV or BBC1 that I deliberately avoided anyway.
>Worst Radio Comedy of the year:
See above No, not that one, the one above it. Warmer.
>Best Film of the year:
Dogma, though I haven't seen many others
>Worst Film of the year:
See above. Yeah, immediately above this time. Thassit.
>Best Single of the year:
Sonique - 'Feels So Good'
>Best Album of the year:
Silver Ginger 5 - 'Black Leather Mojo'
>Worst Single of the year:
That Vengaboys computer one. Or anything by Fucking Steps.
>Worst Album of the year:
Don't know. I haven't bought anything I haven't liked so far this year. I'd expect a whole LP's worth of Westlife would put paid to my will to live.
>Best Book of the year:
I'm a geezer, inn' I? I'm a little but ADD. Still got books from two years ago I haven't started, for shame.
>Worst Book of the year:
>Favourite Websites:
Corpses and The Onion, natch. Also Gorilla Salad ( http://tv.cream.org/gorilla ), Pop Justice ( http://www.popjustice.com ) and probably a few others that I fill these 'ere lunchbreaks with
>Worst Websites:
Mine!
>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons:
Christina Ricci
>Favourite Forum Contributors:
Oh, I'm sure they know who they are, I won't say because I'll probably leave some out and end up going, "Oh, you were good too, daahling" ad infinitum
>Stupidest Name In The World:
EVEL bokiE !SIX ! XIS ! SIX! - I won't be bringing any more of a certain couple of brands of lager into the house again
>Most Hated Person:
Ooh, I dunno, probably the manager of Red Star Belgrade. Actually hating's not something I've been able to do for a long time.
>How Should Iain Lee be punished?:
He shouldn't. He should just concentrate on trying to be a force for good.
>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA:
The care that went into each update; and the ability to enthrall and infuriate sometimes at the same time.
>Most Unexpected Thing:
What the fuck was that? Just then? You didn't see it? Shit!!
>Worst Ident:
DOWN WITH THME ALLL!!
>Christina Ricci
Big face.
>Incidentally, alot of contributors seem to fancy big-faced women (Garofalo, Louis-Dreyfus, Tarbuck). I approve of this. It gives me hope.
Tell us more...actually, it'd probably be better for you if you didn't. You might end up as the forum equivalent of a boys' dorm digestive.
>Best TV Comedy of the year:
So far, Black Books
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>Best Radio Comedy of the year:
Blue Jam
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>Worst TV Comedy of the year:
the Priory
>Worst Radio Comedy of the year:
The Now Show
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>Best Film of the year:
X-Men, I can't remember any others
>Worst Film of the year:
Mission Impossible 2
>Best Single of the year:
Broadcast - Extended Play 2
>Best Album of the year:
Nick Drake - Pink Moon. It was reissued this year, so I think it counts.
>Worst Single of the year:
Aaron Carter - "I like Candy"
>Worst Album of the year:
That one by the Chris De Burgh impersonator off Star in their Eyes.
>Best Book of the year:
Trev & Simon's Stupid Book. The greatest book that has ever been published ever
>Worst Book of the year:
"The Space Age" by Steve Lyons
>Favourite Websites:
SOTCAA, the Urban Legends References Page
>Worst Websites:
Any of those BBC ones, especially Funny Talk. And mine, probably.
>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons:
Charlotte Coleman, Alyson Hannigan, Brett Anderson
>Favourite Forum Contributors:
I love them all in equal measure.
>Stupidest Name In The World:
Barry Rust
>Most Hated Person(s):
Ricky Gervais, Chris Moyles, Zoe Ball
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>How Should Iain Lee be punished?:
Being Iain Lee IS punishment.
>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA:
The 11 O'clock show page.
>Most Unexpected Thing:
Daniella Westbrook's lack of septum.
>Worst Ident:
Any Channel 5, tacky sods.
>Charlotte Coleman, Alyson Hannigan, Brett Anderson
Big face, big face, big face.
What is a "boy's dorm digestive"? Is it a biscuit? I like biscuits.
>Best TV Comedy of the year: Simpsons/Seinfeld
>Best Radio Comedy of the year: ISIHAC
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>Worst TV Comedy of the year: JAM, which will forever be damned to be 'interesting' rather than 'funny'.
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>Worst Radio Comedy of the year: Chris Moyles' attempts at humour. Die!
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>Best Film of the year: Sleepy Hollow (was that this year?)
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>Worst Film of the year: dunno
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>Best Single of the year: dunno
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>Best Album of the year: MOBY, Play
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>Worst Single of the year: Rock DJ
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>Worst Album of the year: dunno
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>Best Book of the year: Super Cannes by Jidgy Ballard
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>Worst Book of the year: dunno
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>Favourite Websites: SOTCAA, TVGOHOME
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>Worst Websites: TV Cream (where's the love?)
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>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons: Sophie Raworth, the fit one with short hair off "Out of Tune", Anita Macnaut off "Open Minds"
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>Favourite Forum Contributors: All, but special mention must go to Jon, Justin, TJ, kinder surprise and subbes.
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>Stupidest Name In The World: Pippipa Popple
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>Most Hated Person: Paul Ross
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>How Should Iain Lee be punished?: By being made to watch 11ocs on a permanent loop, in a Clockwork Orange stylee
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>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA: Its mixture of painstaking research and undiluted vitriol.
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>Most Unexpected Thing: Finding a bunch of forum contributors who are funny and intelligent.
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>Worst Ident: NEWW FOURUM LOGGO! lOGO! WERE IS CLOWWENE!
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"What is a "boy's dorm digestive"? Is it a biscuit? I like biscuits."
It's a biscuit that boys in boarding schools ritually ejaculate over. I've been told. I didn't go to boarding school.
Jon wrote:
>I didn't go to boarding school.
Neither did I, I should add. It was one of those things that was talked about in my school in a "they're not like us, you know" kind of way.
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*Really* wish I hadn't asked...
Angelmouse, didn't you once say you were an 11OCS writer? Or was it Comedy Nation?
Big faced ladies are 'in', Ewar...
>*Really* wish I hadn't asked...
Sorry! I hope this doesn't cause you any psychosexual problems in later life.
>Best TV Comedy of the year:
Jam, Family Guy, Seinfeld (which I've only just really discovered. Lucky it's on three times a day, now), and - without wanting to appear sycophantic - Time Gentlemen Please.
>Best Radio Comedy of the year:
Mark & Lard.
>Worst TV Comedy of the year:
The Harry Enfield Catchphrase Show
>Worst Radio Comedy of the year:
Given that it's presumably supposed to be amusing, the Sara Cox breakfast show. Or that rubbish overnight one on XFM.
>Best Film of the year:
Dogma
>Worst Film of the year:
Scary Movie
>Best Single of the year:
Babybird - The F Word
>Best Album of the year:
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
>Worst Single of the year:
Most of 'em
>Worst Album of the year:
Not really worst, but the new Bentley Rhythm Ace album was v. disappointing.
>Best Book of the year:
The Onion's Finest News Reporting
>Worst Book of the year:
American Psycho (not exactly new, but hey!) - dull, dull, dull.
>Favourite Websites:
Play247.com, disappoinment.com, the(much-missed)weekly.co.uk, SOTCAA (obv) and mine.
>Worst Websites:
Ones which advertise in newsgroups.
>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons:
99Kowalski
>Favourite Forum Contributors:
All of 'em. Except Yoakum.
>Stupidest Name In The World:
Shaznay
>Most Hated Person:
I love everyone.
>How Should Iain Lee be punished?:
Slowly.
>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA:
The vitriol.
>Most Unexpected Thing:
Wales getting a point against Norway.
>Worst Ident:
Oh, I don't know. The God Channel.
Oh, yeah, 'Black Leather Mojo' by Silver Ginger 5 is also a great album. I'd better stop before I add to this every day...
>Best TV Comedy of the year:
jam, Marion & Geoff
>Best Radio Comedy of the year:
Has there been any?
>Worst TV Comedy of the year:
The Fitz looked appalling. Don't like to dawdle in front of tripe.
>Worst Radio Comedy of the year:
Listened to a lot of Radio 2 whilst decorating. Those Roy Hudd and Jo Brand Saturday afternoon shows were quite poor.
>Best Film of the year:
Being John Malkovich, Wonderland.
>Worst Film of the year:
American Beauty, Mission Impossible:2. These are inherited opinions; I didn't see the films, but people whose views I find unimpeachable did, and trashed them. Good enough for me.
>Best Single of the year:
Aaliyah: "Try Again", Broadcast "Come On Let's Go", Lambchop: "Up With People"
>Best Album of the year:
Amon Tobin: "Supermodified", Jon Hassell: "Fascinoma", Broadcast: "The Noise Made By People"
>Worst Single of the year:
That recent Carey/Westlife/Collins atrocity. Or that "Yellow" business.
>Worst Album of the year:
Did Stereophonics have a record out in 2000? If they did, and if that's what I heard in Our Price last week, then it's no contest.
>Best Book of the year:
"Nothing" - Paul Morley. I read even less than I listen to the radio thesedays.
>Worst Book of the year:
?
>Favourite Websites:
SOTCAA, Freaky Trigger, Tangents, Skykicking, TVGoHome, The Onion, McSweeneys, The Guardian
>Worst Websites:
?
>Favourite Lust Icon or Icons:
Well, I prefer not call it *lust* per se... Jodie Foster (still), Charlotte Coleman, Janeane Garofolo, Margaret Fiedler, Isabella Rosselini, Juliette Binoche, er, Jean Simmons circa 1949, oh y'know... anyone with a bit of spark to 'em...
>Favourite Forum Contributors:
Ted Cunterblast - whatever happened to him?
>Stupidest Name In The World:
Glyph Scripher.
>Most Hated Person:
I'd say Anne Widdecombe, but her charmlessness and crass hardline attitude will lose the Tories the next election. Hurrah!
>How Should Iain Lee be punished?:
I'm a little behind on this. Isn't he dead now?
>What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA:
It was right even when it was wrong.
>Most Unexpected Thing:
Boo!
>Worst Ident:
Carlton hearts?
>Angelmouse, didn't you once say you were an 11OCS writer? Or was it Comedy Nation?
Comedy Nation, Smith & Jones, Huddlines, Week Ending, other odds and sods.
Not done anything for the 11ocs, Jon, but I wouldn't have minded doing so. Even if a show is regarded as crap you can still try your damnedest to make your own bits good.
Ewar-Re: the wankbiscuit thing, apparently (according to a mate of mine) the last one to ejaculate had to eat the biscuit. The day I heard about this was the day I became a refugee from the Peoples Republic of Lesbania!
>Ewar-Re: the wankbiscuit thing, apparently (according to a mate of mine) the last one to ejaculate had to eat the biscuit.
I'd heard that bit too - so it's true, then? Jeez, I was never *that* confused!
Best TV Comedy of the year: Dunno, could be Black Books because BB is in it... nothing much stands out.
Best Radio Comedy of the year: Probably Just A Minute. Again. Some of Dead Ringers was quite good. Mark and Lard, again.
Worst TV Comedy of the year: Room 101 with Janet Street Porter.
Worst Radio Comedy of the year: No idea...
Best Film of the year: Nah, don't watch 'em.
Worst Film of the year: Especially bad ones.
Best Single of the year: Catch the Sun by Doves, no contest. I've nearly worn it out... Papercuts by Broadcast, Kernkraft 400 - the mere fact that it's a C64 game tune from 1984 is enough. The reissue of the Buzzcocks Spral Scratch EP.
Best Album of the year: Ooh, er, Showbiz by Muse, except it came out in '99. The Best of Black Sabbath?
Worst Single of the year: Anything with Craig David in. Mariah and Westlife.
Worst Album of the year: Too many to list.
Best Book of the year: Electrolytic Capacitors : an illustrated history.
Worst Book of the year: Electrolytic Capacitors : a non-illustrated history.
Favourite Websites: ******, www.totalvw.co.uk , www.volkswagencamper.co.uk ,www.bubblegun.com
Worst Websites: www.volksworld.com
Stupidest Name In The World: Lolly
Most Hated Person: (censored for libel reasons but something to do with one of the above)
How Should Iain Lee be punished?: tie him up and put an audio recording of 11ocs on constant loop over headphones...
What Do You Miss Most About SOTCAA: most of it. especially the python LP which I never finished listening to.
Most Unexpected Thing: Chunky Kit-Kat
Worst Ident: ITV hearts...
>Ewar-Re: the wankbiscuit thing, apparently (according to a mate of mine) the last one to ejaculate had to eat the biscuit.
I did go to a boarding school; however, the biscuit game was no more than a myth there either. But we did hear that it's something that sometimes goes on in the Army...
I was in the army and we always thought of that as more of a "vicary" thing.
Nope, I've never done it, at the Seminary(!) we always thought of it as a PE teacher thing.
... yeah, sorry.