Well it seems my highly entertaining and remarkably astute Antipodean friend, Archie, has chosen me to be a recipient of the Golden Primate Award For Blog Excellence. Apparently, in my hands words are lethal weapons — one of the best compliments I’ve ever been given. It rates up there with the time someone told me I had really nice teeth. That’s how good it is. It makes me want to brush all the more rigorously, so that I can be even more shiny, golden and generally excellent 😉
Cheers, Archie!
The award was created by Dorid — who I’ve only just discovered, thanks to Archie, and who is actually rather cool. Upon receiving the award, it is apparently customary to link back to its creator and choose more people to receive the award. The criteria are:
“It’s issued by bloggers to bloggers who show excellence and thoughtfulness in blogging, especially those who are not afraid to be related to a monkey.”
With this in mind, I’d like to share this privilege with…
Mike — a keen mind, a genuine guy and someone who even occasionally laughs at my jokes!
Will — okay, so he’s abandoned Yorkshire for the Canadian wilderness. That doesn’t make him a bad political commentator.
kallioppe — a fellow Idiosyncratican and a great writer on… well, what it’s like to be a writer trying to get a foothold!
Lottie — she’s a huge George Carlin fan. Do I really need to say more?
LOL – thanks for that, Gary!
There’s no award ceremony — just a grooming session! 😀
Congratulations. Should we all aspire to such greatness.
After a quick look at your blog, I’d say that you were already just about there! I’m adding you to my feedreader.
Congrats on your award, Gary. I’m a new visitor to your blog but if your latest posts give any indication of what I’ll find here, I know I’m in for a good read. 🙂
Congrats, Gary. And thanks. 😀
Thank you, Lottie and thebeadden — one aims to please! 😉
Thanks Gary! I’d like to thank my parents, my school teachers, God. Wait… maybe not.
Don’t forget the evolutionary process! 😉
Hah! Told ya I’m NOT the only primate who blogs 🙂
I never doubted it for a minute, my friend!
Congratulations, especially for not fearing monkey relatives–courage indeed!
With my family, it’s a necessity! (They know I’m only joking… I hope!)
You know, Gary, I just saw this incoming link in my dashboard again, so I clicked through because I couldn’t remember what it was about. I just read the post again, and it occurred to me… Were we supposed to make a post as well, thanking Darwin (or something 😉 ) and then pass it along to other people?
If that’s the case, sorry that it flew over my head before. The summer heat has been making me a little… bananas. ::snort::
Yes, the idea was to pass it on and plug the person who started it, Lottie, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it. It’s a bit of fun more than anything else — and certainly not compulsory 😉
Summer heat… I wish I could remember what that was like! LOL
No, I actually want to. I thought it was really cool, I was just having a dense moment, I guess.
Better late than never, right? 😀
… as the redneck girl said to her brother…
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