Who deserves the iPM New Year's Honour?
(The Queen. Not in any way involved with this project.)
Nominate someone for an iPM New Year's Honour!
As you know, iPM is the programme that starts with its listeners. Their ideas and suggestions are what make our programme. This Christmas we're taking that one stage further.
We want to know who YOU would nominate for an iPM New Year's Honour. Ideally, someone who's not well known...they're covered in the official New Year's list. We want to hear about someone YOU know who deserves wider recognition.
Just email us their details and yours, and tell us why you want to nominate them. Our email address is iPM@bbc.co.uk. Please put HONOUR in the subject line. You'll need to make your nomination by midnight on Sunday 28th December.
There's no prize: just the honour of iPM making a fuss over the winning nominee. The iPM production team will choose from the names put forward and its decision will be final. No arguing!
That email address again: ipm@bbc.co.uk
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I could have sworn that there were some messages here.
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Only mine, David, but you can still read it by clicking on my name link here, you lucky thing.
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pmL 2, Nope, I had one as well. I asked if the Queen had gone organic with her sceptre.
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Muntadar al-Zaidi?
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DI_W 4, Gesundheit!
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I posted one also. Ah well.
WR.
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David, I don't want you disappointed. You know what you're like when yo uare. So here, for you, is mine, again:
Why, Edgie Mare of course, for advertising the programme on PM above and beyond....
... and PM itself for ensuring there is no prior daily blog debate about what should go into the programme, that day. (The inter-inactive award)
..again iPM for its services to blogging, with 3, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1, 5 posts respectively on its last seven threads!!
...and for their contributions to world peace poverty and equality............... the award should go to..........................
...........
I hesitate. Is there anyone in the jurisdiction one could name?
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pmL 7, I Googled it.
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I think thy were deleted by the Palace wonks.
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DMcN @ 9, what *is* a 'wonk'? no, I'm not being beastly and picking on you, I've wondered for ages, because my father had a children's book dating from the 1920s that was a story about a koala bear called Wonk, and I always thought it must be a slang-joke of some sort.
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6.
Here it is, for you:
(For new readers, it's from someone who thinks markets work and who invented the Beach. The section for ostriches may need extending now h'es back)
aka-pmL, you're taking this far too seriously. Lighten up once in a while, will you? If you've got a serious suggestion for a story e-mail it to the PM team or something, they might answer you then. The Blog doesn't seem, so far as I can gauge it, to be the place for pushing suggestions of that kind on the editorial team.
As for a suggestion for your award: His Excellency the Blessed Reverend Mother Teresa Nelson Henry Gordon Mandela Kissinger Sumner. That covers all the categories, I think.
Personally, I'd like to nominate Mr. Arthur Crudwangler, the well-known stoat stuffer of Outer Throgmorton, Yorks. for his services to weasel and Genus Mustela taxidermy. His devotion to his craft ... (cont. P94)
WR.
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CG (10) - After extensive research I am able to supply not only a definition of wonk but details of the children's book!
Now I must get back to the surgery.
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Since Eddie and the production team will inevitably have ruled themselves out of the non-competition (after all, they will be the arbitrators), I suppose we should look for someone who's provided valid, thought-provoking, well-reasoned arguments to a variety of debates without getting bogged down in name calling or incessant repetition of their philosophy.
Well, that rules me out for a start - I doubt I've provoked many thoughts on the occasional serious threads I've contributed to...
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I think the whole body of PM froggers should be honoured, for taking something as bonkers as 'interacting with the wireless' and making it take flight!
Who knew THAT could happen?
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Richard Hickox - a posthumous knighthood for his contribution to British Music. Should've had it when he was alive.
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Chris (10):
A "wonk" is akin to a "boffin" but in a more applied field.
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aka-pmL;
Thanks for that, I wasn't going to bother.
Markets DO work. I popped into our local one on Saturday, they've an excellent line in real, proper cheeses. Not that horrible plasticky block rubbish that you get in the supermarkets. The produce hall is superb. And you can get a really tasty hot-dog outside the market hall, with plenty of onions, just the thing on a chilly day. You ought to try visiting a market, just to see for yourself how well they work.
WR.
P.S. I certainly didn't invent the Beach. Haven't even been there for months, that I can recall, don't even bother reading that thread any more.
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Bit off topic - sorry - but surely someone has noticed that the name Madoff is crying out for a joke about 'he Madoff with our money'!
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Dr F @ 12, bless you and thank you! I wonder why my father had a book from the 1940s among his childhood memorabilia, given that he was old enough at that point to have been in the Indian Army. Maybe he just liked it.
I have this feeling that the character probably wasn't called Wonk because of the modern 'boffin'ish meaning, though. Maybe it was a play on 'wonky'...
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I would like to nominate PMHugh. He has given so much to both PM and BH listeners with his reports and photos, along with those he has interviewed, and is kind enough to find time for his listeners here on the Blog as well.
I don't think anyone could be more interactive, or proactive. What do others say?
Oh, and he's a hero.
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lizzievee (18);
They have. See Robert Peston's Blog entry for last Friday (12th December) timed at 17:19.
WR.
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18, 21 - I thought it would be all over the papers this morning. Missed the review, though.
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Izzie (18) yes it made me think that every time I heard his name!
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Big Sister (20) You took the words right out of my hand!
To Hugh - for services to humanity ;o)
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(20) Big Sis - you definitely were a step ahead of me!
Agree entirely.
He's a hero.
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I would like to nominate Hugh too. Have loved reading his pieces on the blog, and hearing his reports for PM and other programmes. And especially for his wonderful cat photos!
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Hugh says he's not eligible.
Why?
After all, none of us works for Kelloggs, do we?
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I listen to Radio 4 from daybreak till
abandoning by electric duvet.
I have not heard Radio 4 National
News Papers or TV asking the question
whe are the Hezbola getting their
rockets from. I do not think they have facilities to make them. That if they
can smuggle in such large quantities
why not food and medicine ?
That the Country Supplying them
which is resulting in deaths on both
sides much be as much to blame.
Both the USA and UK must know
who from parts recovered so why so
coy . Are they made in the EU Or
a Arab Country. So about time for
somebody to come clean
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Honours I never saw my nomination mentioned . Shall I write direct to
the PM ?
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