Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 21:55:51 -0500 From: Mary Jane Isles Subject: INT: '98 EmJay Awards: Playing Rules (Please read) This may sound slightly familiar. ;D There are a few changes, so please take the time to read. Thankee! *KAZOO CHORUS FANFARE!* Announcing... ** The Annual WRITERS Poll Awards (aka The EmJays) ** Another year has past, with another year's worth of WRITERS antics and hoop-de-doo under our collective virtual belts. It's time to exercise your right (or left) and cast your votes in the Annual WRITERS Poll, aka The EmJays! General Voting and Campaigning Rules: 1. One ballot per WRITER. Any WRITERS member, past or present, is eligible for nomination in any category. 2. You may nominate more than one WRITER for a category. You also may vote for yourself in any category. All votes are kept completely confidential, so 'fess up! 3. Please try to include last names with your votes. Sometimes there's more than one person on list with the same name, like Donna, Robyn, Anthony. If you don't know the person's last name, give us a hint and we'll figure out who you mean. 4. No, you don't need to vote in every category. Do as you wish. It's your ballot. 5. Write-in categories are welcomed. However, we reserve the right to edit excessively unseemly comments. AHEM! 6. Campaigning: All WRITERS are invited to put their best feet forward in an all-out, get down, bump-and-grind campaigning spree held in this very place over the next six days. Find yourself a comfortable seat and await your turn at Ye Olde Campaign Stump-- give the voters your best pitch, kiss those babies, press the flesh and court those votes, kids. Get out the funky pins! Dress in your party's duds! Do the *happybeagleboogie*! Make your campaign speeches and garner the vote of the populace! Bribe 'em, lie to 'em, sweet talk 'em, sell your grandmother... in short, do what it takes to WIN!!! PLEASE... note: All campaigning posting is to appear under the subject category of INT. Please do not post your campaign speeches, stories, bragging, or concession speeches *smirk* under any other subject category, if possible. 7. Ballots are to be sent via private mail to MJ at mji@srmoo.engl.sru.edu, CK at vixxen@sojourn.com, or CathyB at bercht@PIPELINE.COM. Please do NOT send your ballot to the list... you will save yourself immeasurable embarrassment. ;) All commentary referring to the Awards should appear under the INT category, in a format similar to what follows: Subject: INT: EmJay: Vote for *MEEEE* as Best Poet! Subject: INT: EmJay: Wolfie Gives It Her Best Howllllllllll Subject: INT: EmJay: Robyn Harris for List Kid! 8. Voting deadline is Monday, December 15, at midnight EST. Any ballots received after that time cannot be included, sorry. :( 9. The Awards will be posted to the list in the next day or two after tabulation by the above mentioned, esteemed panel. So, try to play nice and keep it as clean as conventional mudslinging will allow, hey? Without further ado-- that is, within the next few minutes-- the ballot will appear under INT. Adjust your settings! Sharpen your virtual pencils and your wits! And... go! --MJ, who wants to be List Mommie again ;) Are you wearing clean underwear, hmm???? mji@srmoo.engl.sru.edu