The Friday Awards

Welcome back to The Friday Awards. This is a very special week. You see, we've been getting e-mails from Sparklers who want to nominate other Sparklers for awards, and that got us thinking about just how much award-wielding power we actually have. Even though we LOVE POWER EVEN MORE THAN CHEESE, we want to take this week to share some of it with you.

Thus, the second Friday of every month shall henceforth be known as Freaky Friday Award Day. On this day, all Sparklers are allowed to bestow ONE (1) Friday Award upon any Sparkler or non-Sparkler in the world. Sparklers are not allowed to self-award, but anyone else is fair game. Once a Sparkler's awardee is written in the comments of this post, the award becomes official in the eyes of SparkNotes editors and the universe.

So, who will you give your Friday Award to? It's a tough decision, we know, but perhaps we can offer some inspiration with awards of our own...

Happy Belated Birthday to LeaveItToMe and fudgeskittles.

Great Airport Game Awards go to...

...K79Hammer for...

Contrary to fifteen, I think it's totally ok to read twilight at an airport so long as you're sitting next to a grumpy middle aged man, reading aloud, and giggling loudly every time Bella and Edward touch, kiss, or gaze at each other.

...jewbiegirl for this comment on the same post...

My friend and i play the kissing game. we watch reunited couples at the and time their kisses, extra points for open mouth.

...CanadianBookworm for...

Play the superhero game! It's where you search the crowds picking out people that look like superheroes/supervillains in disguise. e.g. A handsome business man could be Bruce Wayne, a red-haired woman could be Poison Ivy.
This game could also work for literary characters.

...emMCie for...

My parents are divorced so I fly twice a month. Allow me to input some veteran expertise:
1. Look for suspicious individuals and point them out to airport security. Bonus if you get to watch TSA escort them away suspiciously. Extra bonus if they cause a scene.
2. Make a castle out of airplane food. Because seriously, you're not supposed to EAT the stuff...
3. Convine the pilots to give you the stick-on-wings, and then pretend to be an airplane. Sound effects are a requirement
4. Sneak larger than 3 oz liquids into your carry-ons.

First Kiss FAIL Points to...

...Therythmnoflife for...

My first kiss was a few weeks ago, and it was, well, pretty suckish...
1. It felt weird
2. Aren't you supposed to feel, like, happy?
3. Then I stood on his foot
i think our relationship is doomed.

...JungianSapphist for...

Ahh! My first kiss was HORRIBLE! He was a foot taller than me and we were at summer camp. We both leaned in for the kiss, but, PROBLEM: he leaned to the left, and i leaned to the right. While this may SEEM right, it's really not--we both leaned the same way. Seeing the problem, I quickly leaned the other way. What it looked like was something similar to a flamingo craning its neck up and to the left while a giraffe just dropped his head down. It wasn't until the 6th try did we actually get it right. Oh summer camp...
I remember a few years back, this guy tried to kiss me. Guys are so gross -.-
Anyhoo, we were at the movies, and he's like "I have a surprise for you."
I look at him, and all I see is fish lips coming at me.
"Oh, wait, it's the best part of the movie!"
"They're swimming in circles."
"Oh...I don't want to choke on my gum."
"..."
"I'm sorry, but this is gross."
Sorry guys, just don't have what it takes

The Ginger Award goes to abused ginger Lex1129...

I am half ginger. I got kicked in the hallway at my school on national kick a ginger day.

Adorable Awards go to...

...pennboz for this comment about the Easter Bunny...

I was at my aunts house once when I was 4 and on Easter morning she told me that the Easter Bunny had dropped off some eggs in the backyard while I was asleep so for the entire day I went around to all her rabbits- she lived on a farm- trying to figure out which one was the Easter Bunny.

...Emily_Jeanette for this comment on the same post...

When my brother was little, he figured out that the Easter Bunny couldn't really be a bunny because they don't have opposable thumbs! But he still thought that it existed. He assumed that it was a person dressed as a bunny. Yes, he's a weird one...

...and to wakwy and princeskander. ;)

The We See You Award goes to neomaxizoomdwbi for this comment on the invisibility post...
I have a severe case of Invisibility Syndrome. I think I'm on my way to becoming actually invisible. When I figure out how, I'll write a post about it, ok?

LOL Points to...

...ComeAndGetMeLoki for this comment on the first kiss post...

"I burnt my tongue on really hot soup and the only cure is your saliva!!!"

...to brambleshadow2 for this comment on the same post...

How about dreams guyz...anything like that cuz once i had one were i was in a red cocktail dress in a swimming pool and a guy in a (cute) tux came leaned and kissed...did i mention it was in a pool and i was wearing a red dress?

...2emalha for this comment on the wonderful teacher post...

You forgot the Incredibly Gorgeous Teacher, Professor Sex Bomb...a.k.a my super hot, icy eyed, ginger haired, Adonis of an English teacher

...neomaxizoomdwbi for this comment on the same post...

My favorite teacher is actually a substitute teacher. And he called the kid that has been making fun of me for the last three years an a-hole. I've never laughed harder in my life.

...sciencenerdess94 for...

My English teacher is super easy. She doesn't teach half the time. Once, when she yelled, "Listen to the teacher!", someone remarked, "What teacher?"
I wish I had a fun teacher. The closest teacher I've got to a fun teacher is my Spanish teacher. We sang songs today! She lets us watch cartoons (Spanish cartoons) sometimes...as we are all "toddlers" in the language. But if we are all "toddlers," then why can't we get nap time?

...TheOneWithTheHat for this comment about weird lyrics your parents sang...

Oh, I just remembered one, it was the song that goes "They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.", but my dad always thought it was "They ate a pair of dice, food of the parking lot." Silly parents...

...savannaholland for...

My mom drives around with her windows down in the summer singing songs at the top of her lungs. This scares me when she wrote down a list of songs she wanted me to burn to a cd for her and on the list was "Do me like a lady"... I was like "er, do you mean.. Dude looks like a lady?"
/insert vision of mother screaming DO MEEEEE LIKE A LADDDDDDDDY at a red light..........
Also..
When we were watching Shrek, and my dad heard the lyrics to the Smashmouth song "With her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead" he looked and asked me "WHY does she have an ELF on her forehead?"
/fail parents........fail.

...littlemissgail for...

on the contrary! my mother sings and hums fall out boy songs. there was this one time i caught her singing "sugar we're going down" (or was it "dance, dance"?) whilst attending to the dishes. and she knows more pop singers than i do.
stop looking at me that way. i'm not lame. it just so happens that my mom's cooler. D:

...siinger227 for...
what about the classic i am the walrus?
makes as much sense as twilight fandom (as in not very much)
and bruce springsteen (my parents's obsession) has a song thunder road.
the chorus includes, "you aint a beauty but hey, youre all right."
thats horrible! youre not attractive, but whatever.

...Helena_24 for this comment on the Easter Candy post...

a moment in silence of sympathy for our jewish sparkler brethren...

...theoreticalgrrl for this comment on the same post...

I feel so evil decapitating the Marshmallow Peeps, and the chocolate Easter bunnies. Not to mention...raw eggs! Easter is the one day where I get to be disgusting.

...charmedgiirl14 for...

Whoa. Dude. I do NOT happen to eat the bunny's eye first, that would just be creepy. And what if afterwards, you finish everything but the head? Then it's just an eyeless bunny head staring at you. Try sleeping at night knowing THAT.

...volitile_antacid for...

the easter bunny terrifies me.
even though im fifteen, i still cry on easter night.
the thought of a GIANT FREAKING RODENT HOPPING AROUND MY HOUSE WHILE IM ASLEEP terrifies me.
i used to refused to eat the chocolate, because i thought it was bunny crap.
seriously.
like, even more so than a fat old man.
at least HE'S a PERSON!

...skysquirrel417 for...

I can never bring myself to eat Easter candy. I just can't force myself to eat something in the shape of a cute bunny, or POKE OUT ITS EYEBALLS (you terrible cruel people! I'm calling the humane society.)
Someone gave me a really cute chocolate rabbit once, like, eight or nine years ago. I still have that rabbit because I would feel bad eating it. (Course, now it's probably inedible anyways.) Does anyone else have that kinda problem?

...aubs9511 for this comment about the cupcake video in Awesome Thing of the Week...

Ooo! The animation was so cool! And it was so original! And Awesome! However, for the following reasons, it receives an 8.
They shaved their frostings. I love frosting, its so yummy! Why must foods, too, be conformists? Why can't they just be themselves?  Also, Mr. Cupcakeman, way to be a jerk and leave your wife on Veggie Island. I mean, you left Deliciousland, you wanted to explore, and then you settled down on Veggie Island. I understand missing Deliciousland, but really, you had nothing going back there. Stay with your wife, you might've been about to have strange dessert squash children, she'll be a single mother now, you terrible person.

...JCBeloved93 for this comment on high school sports...

At my school, Mock Trial is considered a spring sport. My excuse to get out of gym class:
"Hey Mrs. A, mock trial is having their regionals this weekend. I need to sit out so I don't hurt myself."
The answer: "Go run."
What kind of cruel world is this?! I'm an athlete... of the mind.

...rebel_of_nowhere for...

Since I'm homeschooled, my weirdest sport ends up being how fast can I close FB when someone comes up to see if I'm studying

...DudleyvonKarma for...
lol I thought orienteering was on your first day of a new school, people show you around the school.

...knockoffuggs for...

Water Polo is the closest thing we have to a weird sport at our school, and it's barely unusual.
Although on second thought . . . a bunch of guys donning speedos and then jumping in a pool together to prove they're manly is pretty weird.

...ms0mousey for...

My High school has a light saber battle club/team. yep.

...KelliBean14 for this comment on the invisibility syndrome post...

11. Walk like an egyptian.
12. Buy an exotic talking bird and let it talk for you.
13. Pretend you are driving a racecar. Obnoxious screeching noises are a must.

...neomaxizoomdwbi for this comment on talking to friends' parents...

I don't know why my friends' parents like me. I show up unannounced, make fun of their children, kick their dogs, use language that would make a sailor blush, eat their food, never flush the tiolet, draw in crayon all over their walls, and leave sticky handprints where ever I go. I don't get it.
...Dumbledore21 for...

My best friend's parents are awesome because they are not morning people. Why is this awesome, you ask? Because when they are sleeping, my BFF can get up and have ice cream for breakfast. Grrr. I want her parents. Mine ARE morning people.

...TheCheeseStandsAlone for this comment on the hallway to Hell post...

I think I've learned more about driving while walking down the halls than in driver's ed... anyone else think so?
you have the "lanes," you learn to merge, pass, etc..

...feelslikepaper for...

Usually, at particularly tricky intersections, I find someone who is not afraid to plow through a wall of people and follow them closely. The worse intersections are the ones near freshmen hall. They all just... stand in the middle of the hall. Like little lost ducklings.

...potterlover19 for...

Ugh, at my school apparently EVERYONE is out to make me late to class. The couples walk all slow in front of me and they hold hands and spread out so they are covering the whole hallway. I could always run and break through their hands like a short game of Red Rover but then I feel like a criminal...a love murderer. So I guess I'm stuck explaining that to my band teacher when I'm late for the 57th time this week...

...fitzgeraldfan841 for...

I go to a supposedly small private school, but I feel like the hallways are like L.A. traffic jams with an added side of social weirdness...

...Michangelina for...

Ah... The distress of the hallways at my over-populated school is most certainly a horrific scene. However, if there are too many hazards along the way, what you want to do is become one the hazards. That's right, carry with you a "fire hazardous" weapon that will make people run out of your way. It will make people trip if they come close to you. It will make them scream, "Go back to the airport with that thing!"
The solution: A rolling backpack.
I have carried one of these since my sophomore year and it has saved my back and much more. My reputation is known as the "RBG" or the "Rolling Backpack Girl". They see me walking to school every morning with my designer brand Dakine rolling back pack that is just handy-dandy. I wouldn't be me without it.
Every nerd should have one.

...paint_it_black31 for this comment on the businesses we'd like to start post...

our principal, a middle aged father, has an incredible butt.
seriously, his butt is so perfect it should be illegal.
thats all that the girls stare at...his butt.
then he's like "hey there" and we're like *omg erase that thought*
"hhhii...."

...illegalmidget for...

I'd start my own space training academy for monkeys. When the zombie apocalypse comes, our faithful monkey friends can fly us up to Mars. This means that even if the undead cannibals get all the humans with the ability to fly rocket ships, we still have intelligent primates to ship us out.

...kylxy for...

If i was given 5 million dollars to start my own company, I would start a theme park with random themes like bubble wrap land (everything is covered with bubble wrap) and blindfolded jumprope parties. I mean really, how fun is that? watching your friends try to jump rope blindfolded! and the building would be padded so no one would get hurt, and the ppl working the rope would obviously not be blindfolded. and this could all be in bubble wrap land!

...Sara_95 for...

I'd create Desktop computers that are portable and can move! And you can put them in your lap! I'm still thinking of a catchy name... hmm...

...ipebble for...

it's way too late,
i'm really wasting my mine,
i could be sleeping,
if i had got off here at nine.
it's really late now,
i wish there was no time difference,
then i could be talking now,
without any hindrance.
this really isn't to hard,
to talk in rhyme,
i like pressing enter,
every
single
time.

...and last, but not least, N01 for...

ITs poem writing spree
and the editors should be singing in glee
with all this literature being made and said
it is quite sadeining that many poets r dead
but we should rejoice in this rebirth of art
for we r making poems that fly like a dart

Congrats, Friamps!

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