Did you all see the new Bragging Rights Central feature in the sidebar?<\/p>\n
I’m planning to update it every week or so, and this post will serve as the archive.<\/p>\n
Past winners (dates indicate date of removal from the main page; it’s easier that way):<\/p>\n
VWXYNot? Comment(s) of the week: <\/strong> October 10th 2008: Bob<\/a> for “You might as well not bother with the Canadian debate, you can watch it now. Just find the last Aussie election debate<\/a> on YouTube.”<\/p>\n and Chall<\/a> for “Biden shines sometimes but her teeth shines more (sorry, not really on the target)… and please take a Bingo plate and see how many mins it takes you to fill the first one up….”<\/p>\n October 17th 2008: Okham<\/a> (again!) for “Yeah sure…. that’s how you wake up one day with GWB for president. It’s gonna be the eight years from hell, but, hey, at least you did not compromise your ideals and proudly gave your vote to Nader…”<\/p>\n October 24th 2008: ScientistMother<\/a> for “Chall – I have read your blog and comments you have left various places. I was hoping we could be friends, but your support of the leafs prevents that from happening”.<\/p>\n and Dr J<\/a> for “nothing more unbearable than smug Tories, the very thought makes me want to stay in Canada – to me at least smug British Tories are one thing worse than smug Canadian Tories.”<\/p>\n October 31st 2008: Ruchi <\/a>for “I don’t understand what is so awesome exactly about being in the presence of God. Intellectually, I understand that it’s like being in the presence of Barack Obama only better, but emotionally, I just don’t get it.”<\/p>\n and of course Chall<\/a> for “I gave you an in depth answer regarding the zombies”<\/p>\n November 7th 2008: Mermaid<\/a> for “Some people are just made of humbug”<\/p>\n and ScientistMother<\/a> for “What is the point of having an iPhone if not to be able to go to a lame hockey game (sorry but seriously, nashville?? do they have ice rinks outside of the 1 arena?) and get internet updates on the election?”<\/p>\n November 14th 2008: Microbiologist XX<\/a> for “They are calling it for Obama. HOLY FREAKING CRAP! YAY!!!!”<\/p>\n November 24th 2008: Crystal<\/a> for “i have a mac and i love it, but, like you, my only real reason is “because it’s cooler” so yeah. i mean, being cool is good i guess? right?<\/p>\n oh, wait, i just thought of another reason: lots of PIs and scientists use them. so, like maybe it will make us better scientists?”<\/p>\n November 28th 2008: Ruchi<\/a> for “I can’t be too sad because I’m inappropriately drunk for whatever time it is in Vancouver. Damn times zones making me out to be a lush when I’m not! I swear I’m not!!!”<\/p>\n and ScientistMother<\/a> for “You totally HAVE to have children! Only b\/c then I won’t be jealous of you being a DINK. haha. […] Oh and the no sushi for 10 months was utter and complete HELL. BIL#2 was told that he was not allowed to come to the hospital to see his new nephew w\/o sushi.<\/p>\n December 12th, 2008: Kyrsten<\/a> for “the park attached to that walkway is one of my favorite places to have lunch…just far enough from the office not to run into anyone :)”<\/p>\n and Lisbeth<\/a> for “I’m homesick too – and I haven’t ever been to Vancouver…”.<\/p>\n January 8th 2009: Mermaid<\/a> for “Parents!!! You try to raise them the best you can and they still scare the hell out of you :).”<\/p>\n and Dr. A<\/a> for “I want to hold a lamb! in an Amish community!”<\/p>\n January 16th 2009: Bumper Xmas\/New Year Edition!<\/p>\n Bob<\/a> for “We had a Secret Santa when I was doing my PhD. I got our Welsh head of department, so bought him an inflatable sheep. I didn’t leap up and explain how it worked.<\/p>\n “Cuttlefish<\/a> for “Your present will be sent when you get back!” (I encourage this kind of comment).<\/p>\n EcoGeoFemme<\/a> for “As far as I’m concerned, anyone with cold\/snow\/slush can complain, even if others have it worse. Snow blows.”<\/p>\n Dr. J<\/a> for “Yes, it will be nice to see the back of GWB. Harpoon I’m not so sure we will be so lucky, he seemed quite emboldened by failing to win the last election again.”<\/p>\n and finally Chall<\/a> for “I will however say that part of my annoyment (anger) was the fact that ther swedes did not seem to be able to shoot at goal in the first period and to fail to make a goal (after finding it and shooting at it more than 23 times in the second) even when in silly amounts of power play. I guess that is the main reason though?! They failed to actually put the puck in the goal. which is, kind of obviously, important for winning…..<\/p>\n January 26th 2009: Anonymous<\/a> for “I LOVE LOVE LOVE Scotland. I was there for a meeting a few years ago. Spoiler alert: Nessy is a damn sturgeon.<\/p>\n “Professor in Training <\/a>for “I’m pretty certain my current city would do very well at “No School For The First Week Of The New Year Because We Forgot To Clear 5ft Of Snow From The Roofs” and “What Do You Mean Kids Can’t Walk To School If The Sidewalks Haven’t Been Cleared? They Can Walk On The Road”.”<\/p>\n and Mermaid<\/a> for “I have been privileged to be a spectator for many of these events, and a competitor in a few as well. You forgot the ever popular Wake the Most Neighbours: Spin Your Wheels for 20 Minutes at 2am to Get Out of a Parking Spot event, though.”<\/p>\n January 30th 2009: Silver Fox <\/a>for “there are better ways to clear windows than water. Water freezes! (I think you discussed that in an earlier post.)”<\/p>\n February 6th 2009: Professor In Training<\/a> for “I’m sorry, did I read that correctly? 8 mins and 1 slide?? Shit! Glad you got through it all without passing out or throwing up on those in the front row”.<\/p>\n Bob O’Hara<\/a> for “If Canada doesn’t have a deputy PM position, you should just claim it as your own. You can sort out the responsibilities later (just as Cheney did).”<\/p>\n and Easternblot<\/a> for “I wanted to call my mom when I crossed the border there (on foot!) to land as a resident, but my phone said “No, you are not in Canada.” “But I just landed here and have stamps and paper and everything!” “No, you are in the US. Please pay a lot of money.”<\/p>\n February 13th 2009: Silver Fox <\/a>for “I didn’t laugh – I Promise – until you said, “Anyone who laughed is fucking evil.””<\/p>\n Wayfarer Scientista <\/a>for “I spent my day on skis. What superbowl?”<\/p>\n and Ruchi<\/a> for “A friend of mine went to a wedding where a Bishop had performed the service, and she was in the receiving line and had to shake the Bishop’s hand, and she got kind of flustered so she ended up saying to him, “Nice hat.”But I think calling the nuns drunkenly probably surpasses “Nice hat.””<\/div>\n and ScienceGirl<\/a> for “Yay! Off the trauma cookies and onto the beer, I hope?”<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/span>March 20th 2009:<\/span> MadHatter<\/a> (yay!) for “You do realize that by posting those Google search strings, you’ve now effectively moved your blog up the list of hits the next time someone searches for “bot fly up your ass”!”<\/span><\/p>\n and <\/span>Hermitage<\/a> for “I would just like to you tell you I am 100000x more afraid of the outdoors thanks to that botfly post than I was before. And I already scream at the sight of butterflies!”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n March 27th 2009:<\/span> Eva<\/a> for “I mostly say “I’m not religious”, because I didn’t even learn the word “atheist” until I was 15 or so and thought “Oh! It has a NAME!”. As a kid I thought I had a religion that was called “public” because I went to “public school” and the “public library”.”<\/span><\/p>\n and <\/span>Massimo<\/a> for “Huh ? Not a good day ? I think it was an <\/span>excellent<\/i> day. Remember, each time the Pope says something like that, one more christian says “OK, I have had it with this”.”<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n <\/strong><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n Post(s) of the week:<\/strong> October 10th 2008: <\/strong>Jennifer Rohn <\/a>for “In which science becomes a sport \u2013 hypothetically speaking”<\/p>\n October 17th 2008: The Digital Cuttlefish<\/a> for “Modern Technology Meets Bronze-Age Morality<\/p>\n October 24th 2008: Dan Savage <\/a>(via PZ Myers<\/a>) made me cry with “In Defense of Dignity”. But then Uphilldowndale<\/a> made me laugh with “Delusions”.<\/p>\n October 31st 2008: Richard Grant <\/a>for “We Are Stardust”<\/p>\n November 7th 2008: No contest this week: Isis the Scientist <\/a>wins hands down with “You and your HPV-free vagina…”<\/p>\n November 14th 2008: Female Science Professor <\/a>for “Kitten X Gets Tenure”. (And you thought I’d choose an election post – suckers!)<\/p>\n November 24th 2008: Hermitage<\/a> for “n00b images”<\/p>\n November 28th 2008: Eva Amsen <\/a>for “Autism: the musical”<\/p>\n December 5th 2008: PhysioProf<\/a> (@DrugMonkey) for “How not to write a scientific manuscript.” Christie Wilcox <\/a>for “Gay Penguins Resort to Crime to Become Dads”<\/p>\n EcoGeoFemme<\/a> for “Finding Your Bee-People”<\/p>\n and (shamefully), I Can Has Cheezburger?<\/a> for “Oldest Ever Lolcat Found *gasp* (Iz From Teh 1905)”<\/p>\n January 8th 2009: The Bean-Mom <\/a>for “On leaving the bench”<\/p>\n and Okham<\/a> for his joyous use of the strike-out tag in “iPhone and Projector”.<\/p>\n (And, this week only, the prize for best comment thread EVAH goes to Brian Clegg <\/a>for “Get poetical, now!” This might just be the most fun I’ve ever had on the internet. The audio version is awesome, and I can’t wait to see the promised animation!)<\/p>\n January 14th 2009: Bumper Xmas\/New Year edition! “Eva Amsen <\/a>for “A Squishy Topic” and also <\/a>“I Dream of Jenny”<\/p>\n Ruchi<\/a> for “Are The Feminist Movement and The Personal Environmentalism Movement Compatible?”<\/p>\n Christie<\/a> Wilcox for “My Definition of Cool Eco-Art”<\/p>\n and Cuttlefish<\/a> for “The Worms Go In”.<\/p>\n January 26th 2009: Todd Oakley <\/a>for “The Glamour of Marine Biology”<\/p>\n and EcoGeoFemme<\/a> for “Thick Skin”<\/p>\n January 30th 2009: PZ Myers <\/a>for “For God’s sake, have Bryan Appleyard’s articles made any difference to our lives?”<\/p>\n and Arlenna<\/a>, who beat me to it with “Fun with blogrolls”.<\/p>\n February 6th 2009: Katherine Haxton <\/a>for “Great chieftan o’ the puddin’ race” (make sure you read the linked article too!)<\/p>\n and Henry Gee <\/a>for “Let’s all throw used gorilla poo at creationists”<\/p>\n February 13th 2009: A poem, a cartoon and a LOL this week. I love the blogosphere.<\/p>\n Henry Gee <\/a>(two weeks in a row!) for “Lines on the future of human evolution”<\/p>\n Viktor Po\u00f3r <\/a>for “Catfight”<\/p>\n and I can has cheezburger?<\/a> for “Licks me, I dare ya”<\/div>\n and River Tam <\/a>for “The River Tam blues” <\/p>\n <\/p>\n March 20th 2009: <\/span><\/span>MissPrism<\/a> for “<\/span><\/strong>Tuesday Evo-Psych Bollocks from the Institute of Pissing About”<\/p>\n March 27th 2009: <\/span>Stephen Curry<\/a> for “This is not good enough”<\/span>
October 3rd 2008: Okham<\/a> for “No, no, wait a minute… it’s the other way around, SHE is the most accomplished blogger whose boobs OW ever got to stare at…<\/p>\n
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October 3rd 2008: Ruchi<\/a> for “Making The Environment A Right, Left, and Center Issue”<\/p>\n
December 12th 2008: a very cute trio this week!<\/p>\n
Vanessa Woods <\/a>for “New Years Resolutions…<\/p>\n
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