Announcing the Winners of BuzzFlash's Name Cheney's Memoir Contest!

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You voted and the results are in. It was a tight race, but BuzzFlash is ready to announce the first- and second-place winners in our Name Cheney's Memoir contest. Drum roll, please!

Coming in at the very top of our eight finalists with 35 percent of the vote, the submission of BuzzFlash reader daphne chyprious earned first place with the witty literary pun "Lord of the Lies."

Second place goes to winston smith (who may be a familiar name thanks to his frequent contributions to BuzzFlash's Mailbag, or due to his role as the protagonist in George Orwell's seminal dystopia Nineteen Eighty-Four) whose suggestion of "Undisclosed Location: A Personal Journey From Washington D.C. to Fort Leavenworth" came in with 21 percent of the vote.

Of course, we'll be sending off their prizes (straight from the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace) shortly. But we did want to allow the talented "daphne" a quick literary indulgence of her own. Our first prize winner sends gratitude to her fellow BuzzFlash readers for their votes as well as this touching dedication for the award:

I consider this honor a tribute to my mother, recently stricken with dementia, who, under other circumstances and had she ever become computer-proficient, would have entered Lord of the Lies herself. The brevity, the alliteration, the literary reference, particularly the pun (all apparently appreciated by BuzzFlash's intelligent, educated readers), are rhetorical devices she taught me and used in her own locutions. In a delightful case of serendipity, the day I was notified of being a finalist in this contest I also learned that she has returned home after several months alternating between the hospital and a rehabilitation residence.

Much gratitude to P.M. Carpenter -- whose column I had been following on his one-man blog -- for merging with BuzzFlash thereby introducing me to this invaluable enterprise. Can you believe I was unaware of it until that happened?

Congratulations to my fellow finalists. I hope my contribution to the liberal lexicon joins the ranks of such notables as DFH, Friedman Unit and the Villagers.

We hope so too. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Name Cheney's Memoir contest, and stay tuned for more BuzzFlash fun!

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