Congratulations!!!!!

[Guest]

* 2005 Free Speech Contest Winners *

First Place Story:
Celebrate Freedom!
by sophia jane

Second Place Story:
Land of the Free?
by cloudy

Third Place Story:
Eros and the Eagle
by Alicia Night Orchid

Fourth Place Story:
Free Speech is Offensive
by oggbashan

Fifth Place Story:
Bleep
by impressive​

And thanks for having the guts to speak your mind. Whether your oppinion was popular or not, to stand up and say it in a public forum and risk ridicule takes the sort of conviction that Freedom of Speech was founded on.

 

[AppleBiter]

Congratulations, everyone! Well done!

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Congrats to all!! The AH put forth a fantastic showing!

 

[sophia jane]

Thanks to everyone who voted (for me and for the others). This was a hard contest to get votes, and an even harder contest because of all of the negative feedback.
I'm proud to be part of this group- you all said some great things, and it's awesome that you stood up for what you thought and spoke out about it.

Thanks to L&M too, for supporting free speech.

SJ

 

[cloudy]

I can't say it any better than Sophia did.

Thanks, y'all.

 

[davidwatts]

I can't say it any better than Sophia did.

Thanks, y'all.

I congratulate all the winners, but I think that the negative feedback has been all over the site in recent weeks, not just in this contest. I've gotten more crap feedback (just insults without actual critical commentary) in the last two weeks than I did in the whole year before

 

[Guest]

Congratulations!!!!

Hugs and kisses to everyone!

(And no, that isn't the rum talking!)

Well done!!!

 

[Belegon]

Congrats to everybody! Very happy to see such a strong showing, and will gladly admit to being especially happy for Ogg. One of our most prolific writers, and an all-around awesome dude, who has finally got a "W" after way too long without one!

SJ, Imp and Alicia are also first time winners. Cloudy won at Halloween and Imp's assistant managed to somehow sneak a reader's choice award.

 

[Alex De Kok]

I'd like to add my congratulations to those already offered. Well done everyone. AH for ever! I didn't enter, so no jealousy on my part Maybe one of these days I'll get a W. And maybe not - competition is too strong!

Nude Day next. Somehow, rewriting my 2003 effort from a different viewpoint, as I did for 2004, doesn't seem quite the way to go.

Alex

 

[impressive]

Congrats, all! Very nice to see such a strong AH showing!

I'd like to thank the Academy ... oh, wait ... no ... I'd like to thank my co-author.

Since when are there FIVE winners?

 

[Equinoxe]

Congratulations to all of the contest winners; sophia jane, cloudy, Alicia Night Orchid, oggbashan, and impressive.

 

[Guest]

congrats to one and all. fab job peoples!!!
im so very proud.

 

[oggbashan]

I'm embarrassed.

How can I hold my head up as the purveyor of the Last Place Contest when I have managed to get on to the steps of the Winners' Podium?

Congratulations to all, winners and entrants, for surviving the ordeal that PCs and Feedback has made of this particular contest.

I hope that the Nude Day Contest will not generate so much abuse. Free Speech obviously means different things to different people.

Og

 

[Guest]

How can I hold my head up as the purveyor of the Last Place Contest when I have managed to get on to the steps of the Winners' Podium?

Og

(It's the tights.)

Way to go, dear Og!

Well-deserved and about time!

 

[oggbashan]

(It's the tights.)...

I ruined three pairs this morning before I managed to get a pair to stay up. The manufacturers don't make them in Henry VIII size, nor do they provide attachments for braces.

Og

 

[Guest]

I ruined three pairs this morning before I managed to get a pair to stay up. The manufacturers don't make them in Henry VIII size, nor do they provide attachments for braces.

Og

Stockings, perhaps?

 

[rgraham666]

Congratulations every one!

 

[neonlyte]

Congratulations to the worthy winners. Particularly delightful to see Og in the list and my personal commiserations to Rob who heads the catagory top list but failed to achieve the necessary level of votes.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

To all the good wishes and congratulations may I humbly add:
OH HELL, YES!

To think, in the last contest I lost my "W" cherry, and now the Great Og has lost his. Congratulations to all of you. Seeing that list of winners was such a great rush.

Rumple Foreskin