Fortunately, Miss Always Right confused the salt with the sugar in her German chocolate cake, so I just renamed mine "Pineapple Rightside Up" and preserved my six year win streak at the LMS cake swap. But I digress.

Let's cut straight to the chase...

Wind Talkers - As Nicholas Cage taught us, this Navajo code is the one wartime code never broken by the enemy. Using this code, as licensed from Wind Talkers who effectively demonstrated its usefulness in deciphering communication from the dome, the Nom d'aplomb group has used it to uncode some of the cryptic monikers used in competition. Wind Talkers is, of course, the winner in exchange for (err in recognition of) their fine program.

It's immediate application was to bump Snake Oil Salesman out of the top slot. Malapropism was all excited about the anagram hidden in this pseudonym. Mal kept harping on it being so appropriate to capturing the essence of the recent customer service focus and recruiting efforts on the coast. The program confirmed that the anagram required the swap of an "l" for an "n". Too bad, SOS, so close.

Next the program confirmed what we already suspected about Omen Spit. Very clever anagram as well but by this point Mal was sulking and no longer interested in clever anagrams.

Things perked up with discussion of Poster without Principles (aka Instructor without Boundaries). It led to a lengthy discussion about board responsibility and whether we were exacerbating problems with unprincipled posting with our award.

That's when the Sheriff of Rottingham was nominated. The Sheriff's ultimate Red Flag message (as decoded by Wind Talkers) was for responsible posters to self-regulate. As Invictus had already been acknowledged by Mr. Wonderful's committee for the quote about not needing adminstrators (or regulators of any sort), we agreed that anarchy was best after all.

Roll-a-troll and Kick OP in the A$$ were decidely too violent given our new commitment to a kindler, gentler board.

Dawoman, who of course reminds us of SheSays, was a clever response to a trollish poster.

According to Dr. MMR, there was less than zero percent probability of anyone being Dumber than Klumber so we disqualified the entry.

Raisebird was kind of cool because the program told us it was a cryptic finger gesture to the entire flawed process and Mal and Vic were able to convince Miss I that it was just another name for Phoenix who Miss I thinks is a valuable board friend.

Marian the Librarian was Miss I's choice but Mal and Vic teamed up to say that choosing a lady from the Missionary Society was nepotistic. The program said that what they really meant was BORING.

Avian Ocular comes away with the Honorable Mention slot because taking a birds eye view will help us all stay focused on what's important.

The committee has developed a special recognition tonight for the board names that would have won had they actually been used. These include Offbase Prof, Post Gone Wild, Stoned Bird, Gnome d'aplomb, and Richard Seffales. Just when you think you're out of ideas...look at all these great ones that didn't even get tapped.

Wind Talker may pick up his/her award certificate suitable for framing & resumé padding here.

Until next week, same time, same place...


Miss I

LVN is having a Stupid Day. She didn't get "Richard Seffales" at all. Hint, please? Is it an anagram or a fictional character? Oh, and some of the musical references do tend to bypass those who quit paying attention to music right after Simon & Garfunkel broke up.

Invictus - I love your sense of humor.

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According to the WindTalker program, one that we would have skipped right by turned out to have a double meaning. Cephalus.