The Great and Terrible NibletCast
It’s Niblet time, folks. Here it is, the Bloggernacle Awards 2005 “NibletCast.” (Bonus: Kaimi speaks!) Enjoy. Winners: feel free to display your NibletHood with pride (thanks Rusty!)
Best Big Blog: Times and Seasons and By Common Consent (joint)
Best Other Group Blog: Nine Moons (Runner-up: New Cool Thang)
Best Solo Blog: Dave’s Mormon Inquiry (Runner-up: Viva Ned Flanders)
Best Blogger: Wilfried Decoo (Runner-up:fmhLisa)
Worst Thing: Trolls (Runner-up: Bannergate witchhunt)
Best Thing: Mormon Archipelago portal (ldsblogs.org) (Runner-up: Friendships etc.)
Best Post: Coffee (Wilfried Decoo, Times and Seasons) (Runner-up:Why I Believe (LisaB, Feminist Mormon Housewives))
Best Commenter: Annegb (Runner-up: Roasted Tomatoes)
Best New Blog: Snarkernacle (Runner-up: Mormon Mommy Wars)
Unsung Hero: J. Stapley (Runner-up: Russ Johnston)
Sorely Missed: Steve Evans (Runner-up: Kristine Haglund Harris)
Hilarious stuff, Ronan. You and Rebecca should do occasional podcasts until the Return of Aragorn, err, Steve Evans.
My favorite parts were Wilfried’s acceptance speech and Rusty’s theme music.
Brilliant.
Comment by NFlanders — January 31, 2006 @ 1:30 am
Also, we should thank Stephen (Ethesis) for forcing Ronan to finish the podcast.
Comment by NFlanders — January 31, 2006 @ 1:33 am
Hey, I wasn’t that pushy.
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Comment by Stephen M (Ethesis) — January 31, 2006 @ 7:22 am
Um, Ronan, so when are we going to get our lifetime supply of Green Giant Niblets? I got the oil in the pan and am ready to make some fritters here. Don\’t make me wait!
Comment by Bloggernacle Snarker — January 31, 2006 @ 10:07 am
Oh, that was sorely embarrassing. I should have listened to it before sending it to Ronan. Ugh. My joke of it being like a testimony lost it’s humor after about 10 seconds… and that’s when I should have stopped.
Comment by Rusty — January 31, 2006 @ 11:22 am
Enjoyed the “Niblets Cast.” Love the British accents! Very entertaining all the way around.
Comment by Mary Adams — January 31, 2006 @ 11:40 am
Ack! I’m at work and can’t listen! I can’t take the suspense! I want to hear Rusty’s weirdo testimony! Exclamation point!
Comment by EmilyS — January 31, 2006 @ 11:41 am
Rusty, are you gay? Ronan, I thought you were gay. I am consumed with thoughts of gayness now…..
Ronan, your little boy is really cute, and smart, and articulate.
Rusty, I think you’re the one who talked a lot? I had to listen to little bits at a time because I don’t know what I’m doing with the podcast thing and for awhile there it was just one guy, with a lot of pauses. And I forgot who he was and had no way to go back. Sorry, Rusty, if that was you.
I laughed out loud quite a few times listening, though. In breaks I watched my taped Grey’s Anatomy.
I’m gratified and dismayed when people like me, because then when I screw up, they are so disappointed in me. And I goof up a lot. But thanks for the nice things. I am so grateful to have found in blogging people like me. I wonder if you guys are as lonely in your wards as I sometimes am. No one would realize that, of course, I don’t show much, but…
I would like to say that most missed or however you put it, I most miss Marta Silver and Sheri Lynn Meyers, who were welcoming when I first stumbled, Kramer-like, into the blog. I think I was like a big, un-house-broken lonely St. Bernard. I don’t know what I am now.
Employed at Wal-Mart, at least for today. Watch for the headlines when I finally go postal and shoot out those TV sets once and for all.
Good job, Ronan, thanks. Oh, and my voice sounds quite a bit like that. At least Bill thinks so
Comment by annegb — January 31, 2006 @ 12:47 pm
Thanks, Ned. Rebecca was the classy addition.
Snarky, we’ve got to get Wilfried Van Damme a MA T-shirt first (but will T&S have to vote on it first….?)
Rusty, you sounded fine. I have a testimony of the nacle too.
Anne, as Kurt Cobain once said, “Everyone is gay.” If I am gay, it’s truly news to me (and Rebecca)
Comment by Ronan — January 31, 2006 @ 12:52 pm
I’d like to see a lineup of all the winners, doing a Rockettes-style leg-kicking dance, wearing MSTP shirts. Hee.
Now THAT would be a wonderfully snarky post. Hee hee hee. I spose you could insert monkey heads for the snarkers (snarkette), which would really “fit” the shirt, and sometimes what goes on in the ‘naccle, well, anyway.
I hope this is taken in the humorous vein I intended! If not, I’ll have to try a different vein, roll up your sleeves, and this WON’T hurt a bit . . . .
Comment by Sarebear — January 31, 2006 @ 2:41 pm
Sara, careful now, hun, you are one of the few on the Nacle with a MSTP t-shirt, so if anyone should be lining up Rockettes-style and posting a pic on the Net it should be YOU!
Comment by Bloggernacle Snarker — January 31, 2006 @ 2:53 pm
Rusty reminded me of GNR’s appearance on the AMA show in 1989.
Comment by Kim Siever — January 31, 2006 @ 4:38 pm
ouch.
Comment by Rusty — January 31, 2006 @ 6:02 pm
Come on, Rusty. Anything that includes the “Final Countdown” can’t be bad. Come on!
Comment by NFlanders — January 31, 2006 @ 6:08 pm
Great and terrible Nibletcast? Well, he’s half right . . .
Comment by Kaimi — January 31, 2006 @ 6:16 pm
He who lives in corn houses, should cast the first Niblet . . .
Oh wait.
Um. EEEEEK. I think that’d clear the ‘naccle out faster than you can say . . . .um, well, just about anything!
Down, girl. (Talking to self here; it’s only crazy if I answer myself back. If I answer myself front , it’s just dandy).
Something about me and peaches, but I just keep wondering if niblets might not yet be another subconscious referral on the part of men, to the parts of men.
Er, mebbe not. “Great and spacious” are definitely not implied, by the term.
Hee! Dagnabbit. I guess I’m obsessed. Wait, that’s the O in OCD. Obsessive Commenting Disorder?
GUILTY!
OCD sucks. And sucks. And sucks. And sucks. and . . . well, you know. (That ole’ primary song about the pioneers and how they walked, and walked, and walked, and walked . . .drove me nuts because I could then never stop “walking” in my head. Ugh.)
DAGNABBIT. My brain keeps jumping tracks. Could some kind soul hit a switching lever and send it back my way? Thanks!
Comment by Sarebear — January 31, 2006 @ 6:56 pm
Now I know why they start playing music to cut off the acceptance speeches at most awards shows. And I thought your posts were long!
Comment by Tim J. — January 31, 2006 @ 6:59 pm
I can’t get the link to load up. Can you just post a list of the winners, etc? I mean, I already know we lost, but I’d still like to know the rest of the story.
Thanks!
Comment by Heather O — January 31, 2006 @ 9:59 pm
Heather,
Only the pure in heart may load up the Niblet link.
Comment by Kaimi — January 31, 2006 @ 11:19 pm
Bravo, Ronan. Many a laugh out loud moment…which is a bit of an odd sight when you are wairing headphones. But alas, my friend; I remain unsung. While that was, indeed, Splendid Sun, it was one of the songs where I wasn’t singing.
Comment by J. Stapley — February 1, 2006 @ 12:12 am
“OCD sucks. And sucks. And sucks. And sucks. ”
Ha ha! And four times even.
Comment by Kim Siever — February 1, 2006 @ 1:22 am
Re: #13
I’m sure you’re better looking though, Rusty. And I doubt you were drunk.
Comment by Kim Siever — February 1, 2006 @ 1:22 am
J,
Who’s the singer, then? (Of course, I knew it wasn’t you. It was an ironic nod to your unsung-ness. Clever aren’t I?)
Comment by Ronan — February 1, 2006 @ 12:23 pm
Ronan, you sound more BBC than BCC. Charming, soothing accents–you and Rebecca both.
Comment by Wendy — February 1, 2006 @ 12:29 pm
Now I hear Ronan’s voice when I read his comments. Must stop voices in my head…
Comment by a random John — February 1, 2006 @ 12:36 pm
I’m confused. Some categories seem to not have had winners? I’m thinking of the design category. Also, I’m not a careful listener, but didn’t the witchhunt beat out trolls as the worst thing?
Comment by a random John — February 1, 2006 @ 12:42 pm
arJ,
“Design” was not an official category (it just got mentioned in the initial nominations; no-one voted). And trolls did indeed “win”; I think I was trying to say that witchhunt got more votes than bannergate itself. But neither were as despised as trolls.
Wendy,
I’d love to work for the BBC, but there are 55 million other people who speak like me, alas.
Comment by Ronan — February 1, 2006 @ 12:46 pm
Hey,
shouldn’t those “best comment” awards be hyperlinks?
Comment by Seth R. — February 1, 2006 @ 7:10 pm
Nicely done, Ronan. 55 million like you? Hardly. I agree with Wendy, though. Perhaps if the rumors are true that all British sound like you, I could actually enjoy talk radio if I just tuned into the right side of the world!
Comment by Bob Caswell — February 1, 2006 @ 7:40 pm
No offense, Ka – i – mi, but it sounds like you recorded your portion late at night, trying to whisper so as not to wake the family. You owe me new speakers.
Comment by NFlanders — February 2, 2006 @ 8:45 am
Nedward,
Well, I was trying to strike a note of still-hung-over-due-to-following-J.-Stapley’s-good-suggestions. At the time, I thought that that would be a pretty funny framing device for the whole thing.
On relistening, I think I overestimated the humorousness of that framing device, by several orders of magnitude. Yeah, I needed to speak louder. Next time, I’ll just do a normal recording, and avoid trying any (clearly unsuccessful) goofy framing.
Other feedback from other parties, in case you’re wondering: One person said “You sound like a freak.” I also got back, “you sound like a serial killer.”
So yeah, I think the verdict is in, and I am _definitely_ not quitting my day job.
Oh, and I would get you new speakers, but I’m busy running from the authorities. They’ve figured out that I’m a serial killer. Gotta run!
Comment by Kaimi — February 2, 2006 @ 2:53 pm
What, you knifed Tony the Tiger, with those knives you recommend in another thread?
TTFN! Wait, that’s another tiger . . .
Comment by Sarebear — February 2, 2006 @ 7:17 pm
As luck would have it, I returned from my Chinese New Year vacation with iPod headphones still-in-purse, so I was able to listen to the whole thing today at work. What a delight! I hope you guys decide to do another one in the future — it’s great to hear real people behind the names!
Comment by meems — February 2, 2006 @ 9:44 pm
Naw, Kaw-ee-mee, I thought you were a gas. You are so quick, maybe people don’t get you, but you were unexpectedly hilarious. Every sentence. Even the mumbling, secretive, “I am a spy” tone.
Comment by annegb — February 6, 2006 @ 9:47 am