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<blockquote data-quote="Jonny Nexus" data-source="post: 2940531" data-attributes="member: 14664">Yeah, maybe.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Still sounds like something you tell the fat kid at sportsday: Kid, ya didn't win the race, but you made us all laugh, and that's something too!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think also, it seems a much lesser honour, because:a) well, it is; andb) you can't easily use it as a tag line to your product.For example, in this thread alone you have (in sigs):And:I would have said, &quot;The ENnie nominated Critical Miss.&quot;But you can't really say: &quot;The ENnie honourably mentioned Critical Miss&quot; because that's ungrammatical. And you can't say, &quot;Critical Miss: winner of an ENnie Honourable Mention&quot; because it's not something you win. So you end up with, &quot;Critical Miss: receiver of an ENnie Honourable Mention&quot;, which just sounds really awkward and contrived and just a tad desperate.So I know I'm sounding terribly ungrateful here, but given that it's firstly a lesser recognition, and secondly, one that you can't really mention in sigs and adverts and stuff because the words are too tangled... well it kind of ends up feeling like not much more than a pat on the back which you may as well just say thanks, and then not mention again.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Which isn't a complaint. There was a top five. I wasn't in it. That's the way competition works. There's nothing so despised as a sore loser, and my intention in coming onto this thread was to make a joke, not whine.So I'll shut up now and suck it up.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jonny Nexus, post: 2940531, member: 14664"] Yeah, maybe. :) Still sounds like something you tell the fat kid at sportsday: [i]Kid, ya didn't win the race, but you made us all laugh, and that's something too![/i] :) I think also, it seems a much lesser honour, because: a) well, it is; and b) you can't easily use it as a tag line to your product. For example, in this thread alone you have (in sigs): And: I would have said, "The ENnie nominated Critical Miss." But you can't really say: "The ENnie honourably mentioned Critical Miss" because that's ungrammatical. And you can't say, "Critical Miss: winner of an ENnie Honourable Mention" because it's not something you win. So you end up with, "Critical Miss: receiver of an ENnie Honourable Mention", which just sounds really awkward and contrived and just a tad desperate. So I know I'm sounding terribly ungrateful here, but given that it's firstly a lesser recognition, and secondly, one that you can't really mention in sigs and adverts and stuff because the words are too tangled... well it kind of ends up feeling like not much more than a pat on the back which you may as well just say thanks, and then not mention again. :) Which isn't a complaint. There was a top five. I wasn't in it. That's the way competition works. There's nothing so despised as a sore loser, and my intention in coming onto this thread was to make a joke, not whine. So I'll shut up now and suck it up. :) [/QUOTE]

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