Nocturnal admissions.

I dreamed I won “Most Humorous” in the Bloggies!  And then the IRS gave me a refund for everything I’ve ever paid them!  And then my boss gave me a corner office equipped with a private gym and a gazebo!  And then I grew an extra arm and this third arm was a master of kung fu!  And then a monkey crawled out of my buttocks and invented cold fusion and fed the world’s children with ice cream!

Now that I’m awake, though, I’ll just congratulate the winner--what?s-her-name with the baby and the caps lock--and also fellow losers the Yeti, the ‘Zilla, and those Fug girls.

From now on I’ll only enter blog contests I can win. Like “Most Likely to Gratuitously Mention Alexis Bledel at the end of a Stupid Post Like This One.”

So very sad.  So very wrong.  Just ‘cause being “goosed aplenty” isn’t a verb in some dictionary somewhere… Still I found you through the bloggies, so that’s award enough!  More importantly, however, why a gazebo?

Posted by holley  on  03/15  at  04:22 AM

congratulations on being nominated anyway, monsieur howard.  it was a tough race.  smile

goosed aplenty!  i like it.  (in a verbally creative way, not a weird, masochistic way.  you understand.)

Posted by romy  on  03/15  at  04:36 AM

you should have won best tag line, best writing, and best asian too.

Posted by Kathy  on  03/15  at  05:46 AM

i like your site better. personally, people who talk about their children all the time annoy me. a lot of people have babies. they all do the same silly/cute/precious/omigawd you gotta see this! kinda things.

Posted by tuesday  on  03/15  at  06:26 AM

Howard, if it was just me voting, you’d have won every award.  Actually, no one would have won anything because I’m too lazy to vote for most anything.

Posted by UnderwearNinja  on  03/15  at  06:49 AM

I agree with UnderwearNinja. And with “tuesday.” I find your “silly/cute/precious/omigawd you gotta see this!” infantile behaviour far more amusing than that of any real baby.

Posted by redsaid  on  03/15  at  06:55 AM

Too bad, so sad.

Posted by Dooce  on  03/15  at  07:03 AM

When this sort of thing happens I have to take solace in the fact that democracy just doesn’t work.  Meantime I’m still waiting for my nomination for “most words used to express fewest ideas,” or maybe “deepest wallowing in self-indulgence.” There’s a prize out there for all of us.  Gazebos all around! 

Posted by dan  on  03/15  at  07:28 AM

http://noyfbfoad.buzznet.com/user/?id=969075

this guy is using your ‘Inviso-Text’ method w/o giving you credit!

Posted by Dirty Dan Sin  on  03/15  at  12:06 PM

Oh yeah, I made that up.  Me and all the movie sites on the Net.

Posted by Greg  on  03/15  at  02:55 PM

i’m boycotting dooce in protest.....

Posted by  on  03/15  at  03:12 PM

I found this site through the nomination too.  So it’s a pretty winning situation.  You’re definitely awesome.  I am devout dooce follower.  I have enough time to read two blogs grin

Posted by hopefulloser  on  03/15  at  04:08 PM

i’m gonna have a baby so i can win a blog award too. 

i would try just being smart and funny but getting knocked up seems way more likely. 

Posted by the mighty jimbo  on  03/15  at  04:53 PM

Greg, you’re the funniest person on this site.  Why can’t you just be happy with that? 

Posted by cw  on  03/15  at  05:19 PM

hi, greg. i’m a two-time loser, fortieth-time commenter and i just want to say that, in my opinion, your dad is actually the funniest person on this site. i don’t care what cw says.

so, hopefully that makes you feel better.

wait...in rereading this comment, i think it went awry somewhere. oh well, what can you expect from the author of the totally-not-the-best-written-american-blog on the internet?

Posted by julia  on  03/15  at  05:27 PM

Hell, I’m even behind CW and Julia as well as my father in regards to being the funniest person on this site. But that’s okay--I don’t blog for awards. I blog to get babes.

Posted by Greg  on  03/15  at  05:40 PM

How’s that workin’ for ya, Greg?

Posted by  on  03/15  at  06:15 PM

I love the woman with the caps lock, but I still voted for you.  For what that’s worth.

Posted by Casey  on  03/15  at  06:17 PM

I voted for the Yeti.  But I got introduced to yours through the awards and have been reading ever since.

Posted by  on  03/15  at  07:36 PM

Ahh yes it’s the babes that make blogging so glamourous…

I can’t help but think dooce is going to show up in these comments and tell you to SUCK IT.

Posted by Jack  on  03/15  at  08:27 PM

you forgot to say, “it’s an honor just to have been nominated” and then look up at the sky with tears in your eyes; biting your lip, thanking your pappy or mammy for bringing you into this weary world and teaching you to blog proper. cause that would get you the sympathy/heart of gold contingent and make you a shoe-in for the next award ceremony. that’s how these things work.

or so i’ve come to understand. 

Posted by Kimberley  on  03/15  at  09:57 PM

Don’t be sore.

Posted by  on  03/16  at  02:57 AM

Omigod… omigod… omigod. Like… I’ve had that exact same dream… we must be like connected on an ESPN level… or something… except my third arm grabbed boobies at random and got me in a lot of trouble… oh and it was a spider monkey… ‘cause my butt is tight like that… Oh and congratulations on being one of the first losers, if it makes you feel any better… I don’t read the Dooce blog.

Posted by Trouble  on  03/16  at  05:08 AM

Just to be completely clear: Dooce is great, and I, myself, voted for Yeti.

Posted by Greg  on  03/16  at  05:12 AM

let’s start a whole new award contest. My category of choice will be : Best Use of Hidden Text “Ewan McGregor’s Penis” to Attract Web Searches

Posted by giddy girlie  on  03/16  at  08:30 AM

monkey out the ass… that’s some funny shit.  But seriously, choose carefully.  Some of them ass monkeys are nasty.

Posted by JBob  on  03/16  at  02:28 PM

Degrading the winner does no good for anyone in these situations, obviously, and I would never do such a thing… but I will just tell you that I did read a post on her site a few months back that gave me one of those epiphany moments of oh, my word, that was skin-crawlingly irritating in a way that for every 50 good things I can say about her, that one post ensures I will never return.

You haven’t written that post yet, Greg.  Good job.

Posted by EV  on  03/16  at  05:00 PM

I concur...found this site through the nominations and would have, hands down, declared you the grand poobah of hysterical blogs and retired the category from future competitions in your honor. There are bits of humour in many blogs, but in terms of top notch consistency alone, you Greg...are king of the world. 

Posted by Jane  on  03/21  at  11:25 PM