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Ism of the Month Hall of Fame


 

 

Golden

The Golden Benny

 

 

Awards

Month

#

Ism

Author/Source

April 2003

174

I'm better than any one of them put together

The ISMS President

May 

488

While you're working, try to remember what we talked about tomorrow (he meant yesterday)

Russ Pottinger

June 

512 

The sun sets over that hill every morning

Lady on BBC2 TV

July 

693

I wouldn't fancy a motorbike, but I wouldn't mind a sidecar

Tim

August

681

She can't be a spinster, she's never been married

Tim

Sepetmber

624

It's a plain clothes police car

Peter Morgan's wife

October

38

Have you got the Z to Y street guide?

The ISMS President

November

793

It's as dead as a nit!

David Prestwich

December

274

He was getting a major share of the lion's cake

Phil Carruthers

January

15

We were up to the kneeballs in snow

The ISMS President

February

848

That's just oil under the troubled bridge

Geoff Norris

March

847

I won't be shoe-horned into a cul-de-sac

Fievel

April 2004

903 

Surgeon suspended over a bowl of soup!

GM TV news

May

901

I had them eating putty out of my hands

Joe Papworth

June

906

They've shot the hand that laid the golden goose

George Reynolds

July

922

Zwei grand bier, sil vous plait

Chris Keylock

August

483

Make sure every stone is unturned

Diane Gallacher

September

920

He went off like a bag of prawns in the midday sun

Will Greenwood

October

964

It wasn't the last time, it was the time after that!

Will Greenwood

November

991

I'm easy-easy-over like a boiled egg!

Fievel

December

959

Take that advice with a dose of salts

Sandy McGivern

January

1037

I couldn't seem to make head nor sense of it!

Fievel

February

1055

Let's look at the annual tasks that we do every year!

Martin Green

March

1078

Then, woe & betide, this happens!

Neil Warnock

April 2005

1108

I'm not worried about market testing. We're hands and knees above the firms!

Ray Morris

May

1125

Just look at that dog, it's full of the beans of Spring!

Brenda

June

1136

I've been on Friend's Reinvented

Fievel

July

1139

How old was Dawn's baby when it was born?

Joanne McDonough

August

1179

That dog's as mad as a hatter from planet cuckoo land.

Fievel

September

1185

I'm shattered today, I was aroused last night by boisterous neighbours

Ruth

Awarded following a vote by ISMS members

 
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