Any Award Winners Here? Oscar? Emmy? Grammy? Tony? Peabody? Pulitzer? Nobel? Quill?

[Yavin4]

Don't be shy. Brag about your award(s). Tell us what you did to get it.

[femmocrat]

1. I won a poster contest in the 5th grade.... does that count?

[Sugar Smack]

32. I won a fire extinguisher in 5th grade.

And a DUzy in 55th grade.:bounce:

[hisownpetard]

45. A fire extinguisher? You must've been soooooooo HOT!

[bridgit]

2. well, not me...

:cry: but hubby won an award from The Arctic Circle Film Society - Finland, years ago though in the 80's B-)

[madeline_con]

3. I ate at the Pullitzer Hotel in Amsterdam once.

Does that count? They had a crab salad to die for, and a fireplace in the dining room. :)

editred fer speeling

[Kutjara]

7. Great hotel.

I stay there whenever I'm in Amsterdam. And the ertwensoep is yummy!

[BlueIris]

4. I won an Oregon State Poetry Award once.

From the Oregon State Poetry Association. Not really much to write home about, but still.

[ironflange]

5. I've won a couple of DUzy's

Not a big thing, I know, but the gift basket you get for each one is pretty nice.

[JeffR]

13. Oh, not a big thing?

Hmm. Time for some serious mulling (though you were more than generous about the gift baskets).

[ironflange]

24. Well, it is a great honor, I don't want to downgrade the privilege of winning a DUzy

And it's a nice touch that the gift baskets contain things like real Beluga caviar and not that cheap crap.

[JeffR]

26. Well, you're too kind

(memo to the Academy: All gift baskets will henceforth be vetted by me personally, along with my crack team of ex-Arthur Anderson accountants. As you are no doubt aware, costs are an increasing concern...)

[ironflange]

58. Sorry, JeffR, looks like I may have opened a can of worms

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[Greyskye]

47. Gift baskets?! Friggin' caviar?!?!

JeffR, we need to talk!

:grr:

[ironflange]

57. Whoops, looks like they had to discontinue them

Too bad, everything was delicious.

[sakabatou]

40. Me too

[yardwork]

46. I'm exceptionally proud of my DUzy's, actually.

[BulletproofLandshark]

6. Mount Eagle Elementary School (Alexandria,VA) spelling bee champ in '87

Mie speling skilllz ar stil topp noch!

[qwertyMike]

8. I got a Patent

and an award from United Way (Canada)
and a certificate for teaching adult reading learners (illiterate learners)

I was also an alcoholic for 30 years so I don't seek recognition.

I hurt more than I helped

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. ....

:hug:

[qwertyMike]

19. California Peggy

What does .... mean?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. It means I didn't want to say anything in the subject line, silly!

Unlike this time...

And you can't put smilies in that space!

:P

:hug:

[qwertyMike]

23. I often wonderd what "......" meant

Thanks for enlightening me :)

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Yes.

As part of a team.

[kwassa]

11. Team Player

something I will frame, someday.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. I won a DUzy last week

for a post about someone being Anti-Christacean.

I think they might be sending me a major award.

[yardwork]

48. I hear that the gift baskets are slipping in quality, though.

Somebody's gone all bean-counter on the baskets.

[Tikki]

14. I won jacks championship 5th and 6th grade....

I still play the game.




Tikki

[hisownpetard]

15. I won a Good Posture Certificate in 3rd Grade - among other things, of course.

[LSK]

16. I topped the Greatest list about a year ago

Does that count?

[skygazer]

17. I won an EasyBake Oven when I was 8

:D

[yardwork]

49. I LOVED my EasyBake Oven!

I didn't win it, though. Santa brought it. Found it under the tree.

[Bake]

18. I won the Mississippi State Banjo Championship. Twice.

My bandmate, however, won it four or five times. They won't let him in it anymore.

Bake

[jberryhill]

22. That's awesome..

As a bad occasional guitar player, I've wondered what are the odds of a bad occasional guitar player having any skills transferable to bad occasional banjo playing?

[Bake]

34. Being a bad occasional banjo picker is easy!

Especially if you're already a bad occasional guitar player!

:rofl:

Seriously, there are some transferable skills (I play guitar, dobro, mandolin, and bass also - some fiddle but I don't admit to it usually because when I pull the bow across the strings it sounds like a cat somewhere is dying a painful death!). You already know how to fret a string properly, you're already familiar with most of the tuning, although the banjo is tuned to open G (but the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th strings are the same as on guitar). You're already accustomed to the coordination between what the left and right hands are doing. If you fingerpick the guitar, that certainly carries over. For most guitarists who play with a flatpick, going to fingerpicking is the hardest part.

You might want to consider a 6-string banjo - Deering makes one - that is basically a guitar that sounds like a banjo, sort of as a transition.

Good luck!

Bake

[jberryhill]

38. I have a lot of respect for banjo players

but what, really, is the point of those tambourine-like metal things? I've never seen a banjo player use the instrument for percussion.

I'm thinking at this point that it is easier to go from being a bad guitar player to a so-so ukele player, though.

Having been raised listening to continuous Flatt & Scruggs, the idea of even attempting to play the banjo is intimidating.

Maybe I should find some recordings of bad banjo to make me feel as if it would be worthwhile.

[UrbScotty]

20. Just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Also, an Oscar for my documentary.

Had another prize stolen from me once by five judges who don't know what democracy is.

[Ptah]

25. When I was much younger I won blue ribbons for my chickens at the county fair

I also won some blue ribbons for my photography at the same county fair.

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Just journalism awards (n.t)

[SteppingRazor]

37. Me too. But our industry gives out awards like they're going out of style.

Oh, and I also won a National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts award for a short story I wrote in high school.

I'm also an Eagle Scout.

OK, I think that's it. :)

[LeftyMom]

28. I was regional debate champion for a few years in HS.

I got that by being smart and argumentative. On DU I get mod warnings for the same thing. :D

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

56. That's because you post some harsh shit

Put it on your trophy case.

[Adsos Letter]

29. A public speaking contest in 9th grade ...and 5 DUZYs...YAY!!

[qwertyMike]

30. Seamus Heany

Irish Nobel Laureate - Literature
I was 1st year Uni at Queen's Belfast. He was starting his PhD
I drank with him - but most of the other students did too.
Does that count?

Ireland - pop. 5 million - 5 Nobel lits:
Shaw
Joyce
Beckett
Yeats
Heany

and I suppose Wilde would have been except for his (illegal then) homosexuality

[Drum]

31. Well, I didn't generate the work,

but I'm in a couple of dance programs(1990s): a Dance in America broadcast that won an Emmy, and in a feature documentary that was nominated for an Oscar (we din't win.)

[Indi Guy]

33. I took first place in the National Slide Guitar competition in the '90's...

First place prize was a customized one of these --
- http://www.nationalguitars.com/resolectric.html

[Yavin4]

35. Nice

Very impressive.

[johnnie]

36. I won "Mr Chivalry" in the fourth grade

I was nice to the girls and they voted me the best..lol

My buddy is a Pulitzer winner, that's pretty cool.

[hisownpetard]

43. That is so cute! I've never heard of one of those. Aww... nt

[hisownpetard]

44. delete - wrong place

[bikebloke]

39. Tennis Tournament

It was a midnight tennis tournament. And I beat everyone! The prize? A ragged, rotting pair of tennis shoes - at least they weren't fermenting.

[Z_I_Peevey]

41. This one was particularly meaningful to me.

[Va Lefty]

52. That's a Major Award!!

Beat me to it!
:hi:

[matcom]

42. Ping Pong Champ - 4th grade summer recreation

12-0

won a box of Cracker Jacks

shitty prize in the box

[texas1928]

50. I was on the first team to bring a National Championship to the University of Texas at Arlington...

It was Wheelchair Basketball.

[hisownpetard]

51. Well, I won the Galway Kinnell 16th Annual Poetry Prize, presented by Joshua Bell

on behalf of the Rhode Island Council of the Arts.

Oh, and I got $500.00!! (In poetry, you usually get "paid" in copies or at a very miserly rate.
So this was HUGH111111! Series.

Also won the "International Publication Prize" from the Atlanta Review, in recognition of "outstanding
poetic achievement" in the international poetry competition.

AND (as mentioned previously in this thread while I was still being modest) don't forget my Good Posture Certificate
in third grade. Framed and on my wall. Honest!

P.S. And - HIGHEST HONOR OF ALL - I've had the good fortune to have gotten about 10 or 11 DUzys!! (How could I
not have put that FIRST? My brain must be addled by all the pre-Christmas eggnog tasting).

[DarkTirade]

53. I was one of two students in my high school that got a perfect score on

the stupid Florida Writes essay we had to do. I don't even remember what it was about. All I know is that rather than actually trying to improve kids' writing skills by TEACHING them, the state of Florida just made a few ridiculous requirements about how kids had to write something in every class and then we had the Florida Writes contest. They didn't require that the kids be TAUGHT how to write. Just that they had to write something. (*&%ing Florida school systems... then they wonder why only 2 out of several thousand kids got a perfect score on the damn thing.

Yeah, that's about all I can think of offhand. :P

I've never been all that competitive.

[MissMillie]

54. I won a "gold record" at a karaoke contest

how's that?

[Bucky]

55. Best Halloween Costume in 1981.

I stapled two large green trash bags together and poked arm, leg, and neck holes in it. I was an Amoeba.

I sweated like a pig under there, but goddammit, I won!