Congratulations, 2022 CGC Registry Award Winners, and forumites of the year! 4 4

[Flex Mentallo]

Since Tales from the Island of Serendip got a mention - it occurred to me that anyone who hunts it down in the back pages of the Gold Forum might be disappointed, because most of the photos have photobucket watermarks.

So, hopefully there is no harm in saying that I have been reposting [and judiciously editing] the material in two new threads in the Water Cooler.

This is the autobiographical thread, by no means close to completed as yet:

..and this is everything else, more or less complete:

From page three of the original -

Serendipity means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it. The word has been voted one of the ten English words hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company.However, due to its sociological use, the word has been exported into many other languages.

The first noted use of "serendipity" in the English language was by Horace Walpole (1717–1797). In a letter to Horace Mann (dated 28 January 1754) he said he formed it from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of". The name stems from Serendip, an old name for Sri Lanka (aka Ceylon), from Arabic Sarandib, which was adopted from Tamil "Seren deevu" or originally from Sanskrit Suvarnadweepa or golden island (some trace the etymology to Simhaladvipa which literally translates to "Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island"). Christophero Armeno had translated the Persian fairy tale into Italian, adapting Amir Khusrau's Hasht Bihisht of 1302.

One aspect of Walpole's original definition of serendipity, often missed in modern discussions of the word, is the need for an individual to be "sagacious" enough to link together apparently innocuous facts in order to come to a valuable conclusion.

 

What follows is, in a manner of speaking, a tale from the islands of Serendip....

I hope one or two of my fellow boardies will find some of it of interest!

Edited August 1, 2022 by Flex Mentallo

[djpinkpanther67]

Apologies couldn’t reciprocate everyone’s kind words Friday. Was in Savannah at a show this weekend. 
Thanks everyone, and congratulations to the other winners

[slpfi27]

Greetings, CGC Community

 

It has been a fun journey putting this collection together, and so many of you helped me along the way. I am so grateful the set was noticed, and I wanted to thank everyone for making it possible. The registry is simply amazing, and there are so many wonderful collections. Congratulations to all the winners and participants. It is a true honor to be part of the collecting community, and you are the reason why the hobby is such a blast. Thank you again! 

Sincerely,

slpfi27

[joeypost]

On 7/29/2022 at 3:17 PM, Buzzetta said:

Maybe next year. 

For what?

[Buzzetta]

On 8/3/2022 at 7:46 AM, joeypost said:

For what?

He seemed sad.  I was being consoling.  I'm an uplifting kind of guy.

[joeypost]

On 8/3/2022 at 8:28 AM, Buzzetta said:

He seemed sad.  I was being consoling.  I'm an uplifting kind of guy.

Didn’t Greggy already win forumite  of the year?

[theCapraAegagrus]

I'm targeting a Registry Award or Forumite of the Year by 2040.

[seanfingh]

On 8/3/2022 at 5:28 AM, slpfi27 said:

Greetings, CGC Community

 

It has been a fun journey putting this collection together, and so many of you helped me along the way. I am so grateful the set was noticed, and I wanted to thank everyone for making it possible. The registry is simply amazing, and there are so many wonderful collections. Congratulations to all the winners and participants. It is a true honor to be part of the collecting community, and you are the reason why the hobby is such a blast. Thank you again! 

Sincerely,

slpfi27

Well done buddy!

[joeypost]

On 8/3/2022 at 9:02 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

I'm targeting a Registry Award or Forumite of the Year by 2040.

I wonder who, among active posters, has been around the longest without winning forumite of the year.

[Tec-Tac-Toe]

On 8/3/2022 at 9:23 AM, joeypost said:

I wonder who, among active posters, has been around the longest without winning forumite of the year.

I'm at 15 years and running but highly doubt I'm close to having the longest streak. Of course, since my average annual post-count is approximately 59, the probability of ever winning it is low.

[theCapraAegagrus]

On 8/3/2022 at 9:23 AM, joeypost said:

I wonder who, among active posters, has been around the longest without winning forumite of the year.

@The Black Hand ®, did you ever win FotY?

[The Black Hand ®]

On 8/3/2022 at 6:37 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

@The Black Hand ®, did you ever win FotY?

The only thing I ever won was the election for Emperor of the Water Cooler way back in the early days here. I beat out some cat named Fuelman for the honor. When realizing that the power the position would grant me would invariably lead me to turn evil, I quickly abdicated and turned the title over to the wondrous MarvelFanGirl.