ANDY HAGUE AWARD
WHAT IS IT?
The AHA is an award given at the end of each Meeting to the member who has committed the most gaffs or used excess profanity. The award is named after an ex-President who liked to use the occasional swear word.
WHAT IS IT?
The AHA is an award given at the end of each Meeting to the member who has committed the most gaffs or used excess profanity. The award is named after an ex-President who liked to use the occasional swear word.
Year 2002-2003 Winners By Meeting
Only recorded if they have been a member for more than a year
Given at the AGM it is Awarded by the president to the person he thinks has given most to the table in the past year
Started by Jeremy Smith if 2002 and given at the AGM To the person who the President thinks has been dumped on excessively during the year
An occasional award given for internet/computer cock-ups. The award is kept by the holder until another cock-up worthy of taking over is made.
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The Darwin Awards : Evolution in Action Warning:
The Darwin Awards are not for the tenderhearted. The vastly popular Web site,
now a book, recognizes "individuals who ensure the long-term survival of our species by
removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion." Who wins a Darwin
Award? Terrorists who set their bombs on daylight saving time and delivered them on
standard time, blowing themselves up. Folks who put garlands around a Bengal tiger's
neck. Guys in Cambodia who took turns stomping on a land mine they'd brought into a bar.
The six Egyptians who drowned trying to rescue a chicken that fell into a well. (The
chicken alone survived.) The Buenos Aires husband who threw his wife out an eighth-floor
window during a spat, noticed she'd gotten caught in power lines, and jumped after her,
"angrily trying to finish the job, or remorsefully hoping to rescue her." He went splat; she
escaped unscathed. There are some urban legends, like the sergeant said to have
attached a Jet-Assisted Take-Off unit to his Chevy and hit a cliff 125 feet up (not true,
says author Wendy Northcutt), and all-too-true honorable mentions, like the man who put
weather balloons on his lawn chair, soared to 16,000 feet, crashed into power lines,
blacked out Long Beach, California, and told police, "A man can't just sit around." My
favorite winner: the man who was bitten nine times by the same king brown snake
because he put it in a bag on his car seat and kept sticking his hand back into the bag.
Why did he pick up the snake with his left hand? "Because I was holding a beer in my right
one." And where did this take place? In Darwin, Australia. If you think somebody up there
doesn't have a wicked sense of humor, The Darwin Awards may change your mind. --Tim
Appelo
