I noticed people were getting a little anxious for the latest Molly award, but I usually try to hold off to a weekend. It’s worth waiting a few days, right? Anyway, the Molly for January 2010 goes to Paul W. You’re all expected to follow his example and write treatises in the comments from now on.
Now you have to get to work and leave votes for the February Molly in the comments here.
Congratulations to Paul W!
Congrats, Paul W! Well deserved.
Despite my accident, I was able to keep some notes for February… so I cast my vote for AJ Milne.
Cerberus, for spearing Captain Kirk Cameron with her wit and facts! (That gender thread happened in Feb, right?)
Congratulations to Paul W. Well deserved. I’ll wait until I get home and check my lists to see who is overdue…
Congratulations, Paul W.!
—
I again nominate AJ Milne; I think he’s overdue.
A couple of comments by posters I’m unfamiliar with caught my eye recently:
Cerberus in the Bob Marshall backpedaling, unsuccessfully thread, and Ellie in the Al Gore gets a poll thread.
My vote goes to a_ray_in_dilbert_space for his constant pwnage of climate change denialists.
told you so…. err, I mean, congratulations Paul W. :-)
February votes go to Cerberus and a_ray_in_dilbert_space
I vote for Josh, official spokesGay.
congrats to Paul “F.T.” W.
nom:
A.J. Milne
PZ, will you be promoting C0nc0rdance’s video on Simon Singh ?
Ah, just when I was ready to vote for him again…
Well deserved! Congrats to Paul W.
For February, I have notes on
AJ Milne
tsg
a_ray_in_dilbert_space
Feynmaniac
Both long overdue.
Congrats, Paul W.! You definitely deserve it.
Nominating: AJ Milne.
More congrats for Paul W., another nomination for AJ Milne.
I can’t vouch for this award but you should at least get something for diligence in the face of inanity over at The Intersection.
Folks, be sure to check the commenters at the top of the page for past winners.
This month I’ll nominate AJ Milne and A_Ray_in_Dilbert_Space. ARIDS for his shining of sanity and science into the AGW debate, and AJ for general wisdom. And my sincere apologies to those who are still on my lists.
Very clear and welldeserved Mollyfication.
Congrats!, Paul W, the Demolisher of Blastula.
I actually had two post I liked from the special, special muffin, but then he went and annoyed me again.
More troubling, I seem to have forgotten to nominate the magnificent (or Mini-Lynna, as I fear I sometimes think of her) back in December. I shall proceed to properly chastise myself.
I shouldn’t read the other comments, because now I can’t choose. So many old familiar faces that deserve the nom. But it’s not like they’ll leave if they’re overlooked, and plenty of deserving scientists never got a Nobel either, so it’s not gereat loss to not receive official recognition when the sincere admiration is there.
I hope.
That said, I throw the die and vote a_ray_in_dilbert_space.
AJ Milne!
Josh Official SpokesGay
The nym alone deseves a molly.
AJ Milne
Congrats, Paul W.
[Chanting] Four more treatises! Four more treatises!
Again, I vote for the perennial Molly bridesmaid, AJ Milne.
David, I already got mine back in Sept so cast that second vote for someone else! ;)
Also, congrats to Paul “the typing energizer bunny” W.
Congratulations Paul W.! It has been my pleasure to watch you fight with valor and stun your opponents in blinding flashes of tl;dr. Well deserved.
For February, I would like to place votes for:
Congrats Paul (W), well deserved.
This month, again I’ll vote for a_ray_in_dilbert_space.
I’m only voting for the ray if we can get an explanation of that handle.
At least one more while you were posting.
*holds envelope up to turban, I see Tentacle Clusters galore in his future*
[meta]
And I see Paul W has posted another meaty comment. Typical.
Congrats to Paul W. . .so well-deserved!
My vote’s for AJ Milne, definitely. Good stuff. But there are so many good commenters here, it’s hard to choose. Half the time I go to nominate someone, only to realize they’re already Mollified. Perhaps we need the Mollies Squared, for two, two, Two Times The Fun(TM)!
About time! Congratulations, Paul!
For this month:
AJ Milne
Josh, Official SpokesGay
(Coming soon: Pygmy Loris)
(also Feynmaniac and a_ray, if they don’t get it this month)
(Ay)
I would like to vote for either AJ Milne insightful comments, Josh OSG‘s great contrubution to lightening the mood of the blog, and Dianne.
Also I’d like to mention other NCO of the Socialy Awkward Republic of Pharyngula:
Qwerty, RickR, Ol’Greg, Cerberus, F, Holytape, MrFire, and a bunch of others.
An excellent choice, and well timed. Cheers, Paul W.
February:
AJ Milne
Anri
a_ray_in_dilbert_space
Feyn’s already got a Molly. Just mentioning it since a couple people have nominated already.
My vote for Feb is for a_ray_in_dilbert_space.
AJ Milne
Congratulations, Paul W. I see my electioneering of a couple of days ago was more than successful, it reached back to last month.
I’m going to recycle my nominations from last month:
Aquaria should be recognized for her intelligence, good writing, and “come at me, world, I’ll kick your ass” attitude.
a_ray_in_dilbert_space is one of those people whose posts I always read.
Maaaaaan! I’m always making fun of people for doing that. Grr. Sorry, Feynmaniac. I would blame David Marjanović, but Feynmaniac mentioned it in this thread. I have no excuse.
(substitute Celtic_Evolution)
Thanks, all!
Especially Sven, for bestowing the “F.T.” along with the OM.
My vote for February goes to AJ Milne, for his February awesomeness, his prior awesomeness, and because he wuz robbed for the January Molly. (Not that I’m giving it back, possession being 9/10 of It’s mine! Mine! All mine!)
Congrats, Paul W.! Your Gomen recipe wins the internetz!
Another drunken post for AJ Milne!
Several lines of conga rats in sequins for Paul W, slayer of the Beast of Ignorance.
My votes go to:
a_ray_in_dilbert_space, who can be trusted to kick a false premise where it hurts
Josh, Official Spokesgay (because he proposed marriage to me, and because his comments are properly prickly)
AJ Milne (and I’m not even drunk)
Sili @17: Thank for the post-Molly shout-out!
@Lynna, #38:
See how she goes and poisons the voting well? She just wants you to vote for me because I gave her some special attention.*
I’m Deeply Offended. I shall consult with the Toothpaste Twins about how best to deal with this incivility.
But, oh, yeah, I am quite prickly, huh? :))
*Well deserved, of course. Now don your bridal breast plate my pretty, bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Yes, it’s all about me. Surely you’re not surprised.
Truthily, though, I thought a tongue-in-cheek proposal to a woman, (on the basis of style, of course), was a telling moment in the drama of Josh, Official Spokesgay: Good Humor Man, (uh-oh, unintended white ice-cream server associations), destroyer of preconceptions — Man Who Plays with Stereotypes, thus rendering them impotent.
Gotta go, I need more polish for my nipples.
AJ Milne
tsg
Celtic_Evolution
Aw, it’s not so bad… Got all these dresses, now. Some of ’em even still fit…
(I mean, sure, the ones from the 70s look a bit too much like wallpaper now to be practical, and are only likely to come back in fashion as some thoroughly unsettling foreshadowing of the apocalypse. But otherwise, it’s all good…)
Anyway, thanks all, and pardon while I stress out briefly about who I should be voting for (and if they beat me, after all, again, I’m just gonna get real bitter, you better believe it…)
Anyway: A Ray in Dilbert Space. ‘Cos he keeps on keepin’ on.
Josh OSP and a ray in Dilbert Space.
Then about six others.
Josh OSG, and everyone knows why, too.
AJ Milne, because nobody doubts it this time, dammit.
a_ray_in_dilbert_space, because I was shocked there wasn’t an OM after that name already. Gee whiz.
When do I get one?
I propose some sort of honorable mention, at least, for Michael Hawkins.
All the previous votes look so tasty, I cannae decide.
a_ray_in_dilbert_space
Josh, (teh awesome) Official SpokesGay
Bill Dauphin (OM)
Congratulations, Paul W!
I vote for AJ Milne and Josh, Official SpokesGay.
AJ Milne. why not.
Bugger. That was supposed to be
More troubling, I seem to have forgotten to nominate the magnificent pixelfish(or Mini-Lynna, as I fear I sometimes think of her) back in December. I shall proceed to properly chastise myself.
(That’ll teach me to try putzing around with relative addresses.)
Oops! Aquaria it is, then.
Congratulations to Paul W. for wading through the sheer madness of the Laden explosion.
As for my votes, the same as I have done the last couple of months, AJ Milne and Aquaria. And I should put a plug in for my fake husband; Josh, OSG. Time to go back for to feeling guilty for all of the other regulars I think I have slighted.
Congratulations, Paul W.! My only reservation regarding this award is that it preempts one of my planned votes for February.
That being the case, I nominate my other choice for Feb…
Josh, Official Spokesgay
…and renew my nominations from Jan…
a_ray_in_dilbert_space
Celtic_Evolution
Aside to F (@47): While it’s delightful to get a shout-out (and in a Scottish dialect, no less!), the OM part of my nym is a hint that you’d be wasting that vote. For future reference, you can always review who’s already been Mollified here.
Janine (@52):
Does this make him a fake polygamist, since he’s also proposed to Lynna? Hmmm… fake married already, yet fake proposed to our resident expert on all things Mormon? Coincidence? It is to laugh!
PS to Josh: Forgive me for screwing up the medial capital in SpokesGay. I fear it’s my copyeditor’s brain doing the same stupid thing Word’s Autocorrect “feature” does: Unconsciously “correcting” things that never were errors in the first place. <sigh>
PPS to all: I notice that a few people in the thread have mentioned Cerberus. For whatever it’s worth, that would’ve been my next vote, but I try to limit myself to no more than three nominations per cycle. Cerberus would definitely be a worthy Mollification.
This comment is a shout-out for any lurkers reading it to consider delurking and voting.
You can, you know!
What month are we voting for ? February ?
Ah, lets see then…
AJ Milne obviously.
Aquaria
tsg
Brownian:
Ok, done. (In Episode XXXVI of the Endless Thread, and in the Sins of Omission thread.)
Can I rest on my recently-acquired laurels now?
I nth the nomination of A.J. Milne. A Molly for A.J. would not be before its time.
Crap, my nomination just got held for moderation. Dratted euphemism week.
Congrats to Paul W.
My nominations: Celtic Evolution, Josh OSG and a ray in dilbert space.