12 sociopathic trolls and bigots spam the Net

On Jun 27, 3:17 am, "Tom Potter" wrote:
"Friendly Neighborhood Vote Wrangler" wrote in
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music"Also Sprach Zarathustra"
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Ladies and gentlemen, by the authority vested in me by the Overseer of
Kooks & Trolls in AFA-B, I present the winners of the Spring 2007
alt.fan.art-bell Awards. The envelopes, please!

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ANGSTROM AWARD AND MEDAL

The winner is...GREYSKY!

09 votes YES
00 votes NO
03 votes abstain

Congratulations, Greysky! Gotten any signals yet on that faster-than-
light radio of yours?

CHERNOBYL PRIZE

The winner is...GERALD NEWTON!

09 votes Gerald Newton
01 votes Linda Gore
00 votes Neither of the above
02 votes abstain

Congratulations, G-Dolf! How many groups did you melt down in that
Kevin Cannon /doesn't/ read?

CLEOPATRA AWARD

The winner is...MICHAEL "HOWDY/TRUMPETOFTHELORD" SCHMIDT!

10 votes YES
00 votes NO
02 votes abstain

Congratulations, Howdy! Which are you most in denial about, that you're
a closet case, that you're not good looking any more, that you suck as a
trumpet player, or that people dislike your poasts so much that they
LARTed your Google Groups account and succeeded?

DR. POSTMAN'S "STOLEN KIDNEY" AWARD

The winner !

08 votes YES
00 votes NO
04 votes abstain

Congratulations, paranoid religious spammer! Have you looked anywhere
and /not/ found the Number of the Beast?

ED CONRAD "BRAIN OF STONE" AWARD

The winner is...HONEST JOHN AKA CLOCKBRAIN!

11 votes YES
00 votes NO
01 votes abstain

Congratulations, Clockbrain! You won the award for being an
incorrigible clueproof idiot by the largest margin on this ballot. Does
that mean anything to you? Probably not, or you wouldn't have won this
award.

GREEN LANTERN AWARD FOR PROJECTION

The winner is...HONEST JOHN AKA CLOCKBRAIN!

07 votes Honest John AKA Clockbrain
04 votes Michael "Howdy/TrumpetoftheLord" Schmidt
01 votes Neither of the above
00 votes abstain

Congratulations a second time, Clockbrain! So, would you really stab
your friends in the back the way you allege Art Deco did to Phineas?

SIR ROBIN AWARD FOR BRAVERY

The winner is...TOM POTTER!

07 votes Tom Potter
04 votes Nightbat
00 votes Neither of the above
01 votes abstain

Congratulations, Crackpotter! Your instructions for how to go real-life
on your adversaries were enough to catapult you ahead of one of the more
notorious poast-editors participating in AFA-B.

STEVE WINTER MEMORIAL "STEAMING MOUND OF HYPOCRISY"

The winner is...ANDREW B. CHUNG!

09 votes Dr. Andrew B. Chung
03 votes Michael "Howdy/TrumpetoftheLord" Schmidt
00 votes Neither of the above
00 votes abstain

Congruatulations, Double-Doctor! Your hypocrisy is legendary!

THICK AS A BRICK AWARD

The winner is...NOBODY!

Pedro Sanchez

04 votes YES
03 votes NO
05 votes abstain

I see people didn't follow Napoleon Dynamite's advice--they didn't vote
for Pedro. While he did win a plurality, he didn't win by 2/3 of the
yes/no votes, so he didn't win the award.

TINFOIL STAR AWARD

The winner is...GERALD NEWTON!

05 votes Gerald Newton
03 votes Angela Kahealani.
03 votes Mike "miguel" Cranston
00 votes None of the above
01 votes abstain

Congratulations, again, G-Dolf! Your attempts to shut down Databasix
and Insurgent.org, as misguided as they were, did earn you something--a
repeat of this award for frivolous, misguided, and futile netkkkopping.

OFFICE OF THE VIAGRA JUNKIE

The winner is...MICHAEL "HOWDY/TRUMPETOFTHELORD" SCHMIDT!

07 votes Michael "Howdy/TrumpetoftheLord" Schmidt
04 votes Raymond Karczewski
00 votes Neither of the above
01 votes abstain

Congruatulations, Howdy! You managed to finally unseat one of the most
prolifically limp poasters on USENET. Now we (tinw) know that you must
use that hand lotion for things other than moisturizing!

OFFICE OF THE WICKED WITCH

The winner is...TOM POTTER!

10 votes Tom Potter
01 votes Joseph Bartlo
00 votes Neither of the above
01 votes abstain

Congratulations again, Crackpotter! Your state of perpetual threatening
meltdown won you an office. Enjoy your tenure!

This concludes the announcement of the winners of the Spring 2007
alt.fan.art-bell awards. Thirteen entities submitted 13 ballots. One
ballot was disqualified on the basis of its caster being a
disenfranchised notorious net-kook. Consequently, twelve ballots were
considered to be from qualified voters and were counted.

Look for the call for nominations for the Summer AFA-B awards around
Labor Day, although nominations will be accepted before then. The
elections should be scheduled so that the winners will be announced
about the time of the Autumnal Equinox. Until then, enjoy!

music"Happy Trails to You"
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Co-FNVW of AUK
Acting Pollmaster of alt.fan.art-bell
AUK Extra-Curricular Activities & Special Ballots
http://www.screedbomb.info/goti/

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As can be seen from the post above,
a few anonymous bigots and sociopaths,

some motivated by race, religion and politics,
and some operating out of boiler rooms,

are hard at work, trying to control the
flow of information on the Internet,


Very few, wasn't it, Tom. Only 12 voters. And that includes ah, who
we thought was our friend.

Double-A