If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Brits it is that they only insult the ones they love. So today when I learned that the notorious Limey, Eddie Arthur of Kouya Chronicle named Lingamish his Blog of the Year, I began to shake in my boots. How should I interpret such an honor? This is complicated for this reason: Eddie has recently assumed an exceedingly high-ranking post in our international organization. If I trip up here and offend him, he’s liable to take out his revenge on me by getting me elected as one of his toadies. Then I’ll be stuck in committee meetings for the rest of my life instead of enjoying my cushy post in Africa.
Any advice on how I should proceed is appreciated.
P.S. I shared the honor with Paul Merril’s beautiful My Part of Colorado.
I’m still waiting for the bribe!
To be perfectly blunt… you’re stewed!! I’d start thinking up diseases that will mean it’s impossible for anyone to stay in the same room as you for longer than five minutes, that should get you out of a couple of meetings. Then you have to put pay to air travel.
Alternatively, take Dilbert’s advice, http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007112223221.gif
[Editor's note: comment slightly sanitized]
Congrats to you too, David.
Now we are both part of some secret society, I guess.
Thanks, Paul. I’d read your blog more often but the photos make me weep.
Eddie chose me because I’m funnier than he is and you because you’re better looking than he is.
Right on the second point, certainly wrong on the first.