The Friday Awards

Welcome to another wonderful Friday Awards, Sparklers!

Before we get this party started, I'd like to make a few announcements:

• You may have noticed that this week's Awesome Thing was brought to us by Sparkler LunarCircus. Congrats, LunarCircus, you get a Friday Award for your contribution. :) Us SparkNotes eds love it when you send us your fave vids and stories from the internets, so email your Awesome Things AND photos of Cute Things to contribute@sparknotes.com. And if you're nervous that the Sparkler community will think your Awesome Thing is dumb, ask to be anonymous. SparkNotes editors are very good at keeping secrets (like that time Kelsey and Rex made out behind the dumpster at a football game and we didn't tell anyone! ...Oopsies...).
• Some sad news: We will no longer be able to incorporate html in comments. Blame it on Gamer60 SparkNotes tech security. BUT, we are trying to save the werewolf emoticon. We're working on it with our tech team, and will have more updates for ya on that next week.

Now, the awards!

LOL Pointzzzzzz!!!!! (There are lots this week!)

to Rosepetal92 for...

There's a high school around here, and they're the "beet diggers". How intimidating-too bad they're actually really good! :p

to CoffinMaker for...

tanning is soooooooooo 1988.

to coolWasabi for...

Top 10 on a Dan Blog? Im going to tellmy grandchildren abotu this moment...

to McGonagall62 for this about a New Moon blog...

Dan you are so friggin' amazing!!!!! My friends and i quote you all the time, and we're almost positive you are secretly the guy on man v. food.

to zella435 for...

I am not really qualified to comment on here, because I don't dance, but NEVER EVER eat pasta dishes in public. My father has told me this since childhood. Why? Once upon a time when my dad was single and in the military, he got stuck on a blind date with a girl. He took her to an Italian restaurant and she ordered pasta. Innocent enough, right? My dad said that within five minutes, she had the pasta IN HER HAIR! (I should mention at this point that she had long blonde hair.) He said that the more she ate, the more pasta landed in her long blonde locks. Needless to say, that was the end of that relationship. To this day, nearly twenty five years later, my dad will still start laughing hysterically while eating pasta. We don't ask why. We know.

Don't end up like the spaghetti head girl. Order something non-noodle-y. For your own good. And have fun!

to LookThereShels about peaceonearth34's article on illness...

wonderFLU article!!

to right_writer for...

Last year my history teacher played a really mean prank on us. He wrote a letter that looked and sounded like it had come from the school board. now, let me just tell you now, my history teacher is a good prankster. So good that we all believed him when he told us that the school had created something called "percentage points" where kids could pay the school and get their grade bumped up in any class. Then he asked anyone who wanted to buy them to come up to the front of the room, some actually did! Meanwhile half of the class is throwing a fit about this (including me). my best friend started yelling things like "this is so stupid! they cant do this! Oh my GOD! really? REALLY?!" We were all begging my history teacher to tell his opinion but he said he didn't want kids blabbing to everyone about it cause the school might get mad. He played the trick on every class and every one believed it until the end of the day when he announced the joke. We were all embarrassed for believing it, and my history teacher kept giving us grief about it for the rest of the year.

The Nerd Power Awards go to reg53 for...

I've memorized 29 digits of Pi

to vb1221 for...

three words: glasses and braces

to angi4 for...

My email is out of Mugglenet.

to cryptoquip3 for...

I laughed at the question "Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip?"

to usmc_semperfi for...

My favorite board game is called Settlers of Cataan (surely someone has heard of it) and it's these hexes you put cities and settlements on and roll the dice to get resources and commodities and there are knights to protect the cities from the barbarians and robber. It's nerdy but super-fun. A single game easily takes three or four hours.

(usmc_semperfi, I've played this game! I ended up falling asleep with my head in a bowl of Doritos at midnight while other players raged on into the wee hours! Very intense!)

to gezana for...

- I REALLY want an external hard drive that has a terrabyte of memory space on it

...and everyone else. Because, as Sparkler elkazina puts it...

Bad idea, Sparknotes. This is the post that will never end, because honestly, who else but a nerd would ever even discover sparklife?

This Week's Warrior Foot Award goes to mr_op13 for (it was really long, so this is an excerpt)...

I was in my basement, cleaning the cat litter (a venerable chore). I was trying to find a broom, when I stepped on a the razor-sharp broadhead tip of an arrow (My dad keeps all of his hunting stuff down there and forgot to put one of his broadheads away). So at first I assume that I stepped on a staple or something, and look down at my foot to see the damage. I realized that it definitely was not a staple when I seen the small pool of blood where my foot had just been. I began to freak out, and ran upstairs to the bathroom, grabbed some tissues and took off my sock so I could apply pressure to the wound in order to stop the bleeding. I then hopped over to the stairs by the kitchen where my dad was cooking dinner. In a worried voice, I said, "Uh dad... I cut my foot. Really badly. Like REALLY badly." He came over to me and said something like, oh it can't be that bad. I then took the tissues off and he seen the rather large amount blood that had stained the tissues I was holding. I then told him what happened, and he went downstairs. It looked like someone had been murdered in the basement-- there was blood going from where I cut my foot, all the way up the stairs and into the bathroom.

A Spell Check Friday Award goes to Psalmer...

...because we spelled her name wrong last week.

Nickname of the Week Award goes to... MermaidOnProzac (btw MermaidOnProzac, Twizzlers are my favorite food! This is what they look like.)

And finally, the Blogging New Moon Award goes to an anonymous Sparkler who e-mailed us with this awesome word cloud from Wordle.net! Click here to see it bigger—it's all the most used words from Dan's blog post, Blogging New Moon Part 23!

Congrats, Frampions!