***BREAKING NEWS***
The Curmudgeon's blog has been awarded Google Blogger Most Promising Blog Award 2022.
This is a significant achievement and even eclipses The Curmudgeon's previous award The Richard's Bass Bag "Well That's Boring" Award. Well done The Curmudgeon. I thought it opportune to call The Curmudgeon to discuss the momentous event.
The Cultured Curmudgeon: Hello TC. May I say that you are an inspiration to all with not only this new award but with your posts in general.
The Curmudgeon: Thanks TCC, and yes you may say it.
The Cultured Curmudgeon: Say what? ...... Oh, yes, I see, you were being literal there. Ha ha.
The Curmudgeon: Yep, a bit like James Fridman in that earlier post I did about literal interpretations of photo editing requests. Robert the apathetic sanctimonious sinner and toilet cleaner (don't ask) didn't see the humour in that though.
The Cultured Curmudgeon: He comes from Moera doesn't he?
The Curmudgeon: Yes, I believe so but he calls it Petone Heights.
The Cultured Curmudgeon: Well, that explains it. Humour no longer lives in Moera I'm told.
The Curmudgeon: Look TCC, I don't want to appear rude but I've lit a nice fire in the lounge and was looking forward to reading or watching a film. What did you call about?
The Cultured Curmudgeon: Oh dear. Dearie me. I'm so sorry TC, how very remiss of me. I was calling to ask how you went about winning that inaugural Google award and whether there was any chance .. he he ... of the rest of us Curmudgeons getting one?
The Curmudgeon: Oh, I see. Well then. First of all you need to have been producing quality and frequent blog posts for at least 14 years ....
The Cultured Curmudgeon: You first posted in 2008 I believe.
The Curmudgeon: That's right and as I was saying ........ posting for at least 14 years. The Google Blogger assessment team will then critique all of those posts and make informed judgement on them applying a complicated points system to come up with a total which is then compared to the totals given to the hundreds of thousand other blogs that are in consideration. As my points were the highest I was awarded the inaugural Google Blogger Most Promising Blog Award 2022.
The Cultured Curmudgeon: Wow! I'm impressed. That really happened?
The Curmudgeon: Of course not you silly cu ... Cultured Curmudgeon. I just searched for an award making programme on the internet and found Free Certificate Maker. It took me all of about three minutes to make the award.
The Cultured Curmudgeon: Oh.......I'm ......
The Curmudgeon: Impressed?
The Cultured Curmudgeon: No, er ....
The Curmudgeon: Look TCC, you need to get real. We at the blogging interface put in the hard yards to write interesting and very frequent posts ..... well, some of us do, there are a couple of other jokers who fail on both 'interesting' and 'frequent' ... and we get bugger all acknowledgement and no reward for this. Sometimes you just have to make things up. Ask Robert and his Catholic Church. They're experts at it.
The Cultured Curmudgeon: I see, I think. Hey TC ..... do you think you could make me one of those thingamajigs?
The Curmudgeon: An award certificate?
The Cultured Curmudgeon: Yes, but with a bit more gold foil and some extra accolades because, you know that I'm cultured.
The Curmudgeon: Right. When did you start posting?
The Cultured Curmudgeon: Um ... October 2017 I think.
The Curmudgeon: So, nearly five years ago?
The Cultured Curmudgeon: Yes, so, what about it?
The Curmudgeon: Give me a call in another nine years......(click) ....BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
The Cultured Curmudgeon: Hello! Hello! Well, that's rude.
