Congratulations to QL and jailer.

I love that thread and have always enjoyed QL's LT's.

A well-deserved award to two of my favorite people here! Congrats to you both

Oh....my....god! I did not know that I won until the Seattle FT Dinner on Saturday. I've always said that I have gleaned far more from this Board than I have contributed. So, to be recognized by my peers and awarded an Omni is quite an honor. Thanks to all who read and to those who posted back, thanks to Catman and Rudi for the nod, and to QuietLion for your inspiration. And last, but not least, cousin Craig6z who snared me into this cult.

I stand on the shoulders of giants. I can't wait until the award ceremony in Switzerland

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the award ceremony in Switzerland

when are you where in the Helvetian Confoederation? (and don't forget to bring QuietLion with you!).

As a rule, I do not add "me too" comments to threads, or attend award ceremonies, but in this case I make an exception.

A short recapitulation of the "OMNI"-award-history:

The award (first called the Emmett_Nancy_Roberto award) was born at an inaugurational meeting (Catman and Rudi) at a New York steakhouse on Oct-19th-98. The ad-hoc committee wanted to honor Flyertalk-contributions that either are unique, extraordinary, or just helping us to earn miles, to entertain the "mileage-addicts" or "just let one�s tongue run away with one".

The committee did decide to (try to) follow these "guide-lines" in their award-decision-making-process:

The awards should: [*]not make anybody jealeous (CatMan and Rudi don't want to have ennemies here) [*]not embarass the winner [*]not have any real money-value[*]not make any bribes possible (I will not give you my bank account, nor will CatMan) [*]honor contributions that either are unique,extraordinary, or just helping us to earn miles, to entertain the mileage-addicts" or "just let one�s tongue run away with one" being/creating no problem(s) for our hosts of FlyerTalk be fun, beiing typically in the pioneer sense of the Internet free and without needing strict rules and eventually land/end in the hands of lawyers

The first award went (after nancy, roberto and emmett didn't claim their reward in time) to our hosts of the FlyerTalk-board in Colorado-Springs.

Here is a list of the award-winners so far (excluding the many Flyertalk individuals ("oldies") who were thanked for their individual contributions and received a special OMNI-holiday-present from the committee in dec-98):

The Hall of Fame of the OMNI-award
[*]FlyerTalk for hosting our board http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/000304.html [*]NJDavid for his Flyertalk photo-gallery http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/000871.html [*]DJLawman for his (legal aspects) advice http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/000476.html [*]JayJ for an outstanding Box-fight between merry and JayJ at http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum53/HTML/000007.html [*]baobab for her thread "who we all are" http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/000795.html [*]BlondeBomber for his StarAlliance-comparison-sheet http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/001124.html [*]PremEx for his "party in Paradise = PiP" homepage http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/000039.html [*]Adam Burke from Hilton HHonors and MJW (Mary Joe) with Northwest Airlines, both being honored for not just "lurking/reading" but taking action in the joint interest of us FlyerTalkers (and customers) and their companies (Northweast and Hilton.) http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/Foru...ML/000070.html [*]bryan at webflyer from InsideFlyer Magazin for his Flyertalk birthday-article in the july-99 issue http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/000112.html [*]Tropical Flyer for her tireless work and ALOHA spirits with the logistics for the Party in Paradise, '99 in Honolulu: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/000370.html [*]Jon Toner for his entertaining and often moving and personal posts about his travels and his homelife: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/000430.html [*]arturo, for being the Court Jester and honest commentator of Flyertalk �Someun who doz drive uz nutz sometimez butt es likea gladflea en a filasafurr who telz itz like itz iz" http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/000604.html [*]EA/AA/FA and UA Cris for constant work on the respective airline forums (AA & UA) to help us answering questions and giving tips. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum95/HTML/000494.html [*]jailer and QuietLion with a joint OMNI we honour the thread "Simple Pleasures, Heaven and a Lion Contest" full of humour and whit, in the old-FlyerTalk-tradition http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum81/HTML/001236.html and Quietlion being the 'base' of jailers thread with his constantly brilliant written 'trip-reports' http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum95/HTML/000614.html

And thank you Rudi for your excellent and thorough OMNI Award History Review! It certainly refreshed my memory and I'm sure it brought some of our newer FlyerTalk members up to speed.

kyklin posted 11-27-2000 10:57 AM http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum95/HTML/000625.html