Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!wildbill From: wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.jokes Subject: Re: USENET Awards, anyone? Message-ID: <4225@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 17:43:40 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.4225 Posted: Wed Jan 16 17:43:40 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 14:18:28 EST References: <4082@ucbvax.ARPA> <499@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.misc:7292 net.jokes:10326 > ... I think "The Laubenheimer Awards" has just the esoteric > ring to it that is needed!! Why isn't your name available? After all, the > Pulitzer Prize is named after ITS orginator, the Nobel Prize after ITS > originator -- I think we should seriously entertain the idea. > Gary Benson m/s232e -*- John Fluke Mfg Co Box C9090 -*- Everett WA 98206 USA After thinking about this for a while, and continuing to have feelings of unease, I finally figured out why it didn't sound right. Those honors are prizes, which were created \\and funded// by the person involved. Such a person has a perfect right to name the award after himself. The award-type honors are usually named after some prominent figure in the field, or after their physical appearance (sometimes, e.g., Nebulas in SF, the causality of this relationship is reversed). Since I am not proposing anything but recognition for the honored parties (on my budget? You've got to be kidding!), I must once again decline this nomination. Bill Laubenheimer ----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science ...Killjoy went that-a-way---> ucbvax!wildbill