Tips on Presenting Achievement Awards Plaques as well as Trophies

"And the award for the very best supporting actress goes to...". As the show host glibly intoned these words, I reduced a yawn. I was enjoying the Golden World awards ceremony, however NOT discovering it terribly amazing. After all, there is a variety of awards, the Oscars, the Tony's the DROOP's, not to mention the Grammys and the Emmys, etc, etc. These programs are getting pretty routine. They show the very same people over and over. You get to see a few lovely or good-looking faces, plus a few good looking clothing, however that's all. No drama, no humor, no enjoyment.

You know, for a democratic nation, we have excessive hero worship. You would believe, from the way we laud or worship stars, that we were a feudal society, worshipping the chief of the clan or village. A lot of these celebs, while excelling in their field, are extremely imbalanced personalities, frequently exhibiting anti-social or self harmful habits. This is obvious from the number of celebs that remain in rehabilitation or drug centers. So they are not truly deserving of adulation. In any case an obsession with quality or popularity is unhealthy; it divorces us from day to day life and from the gratitude of typical pleasures.

So I got to thinking, (yes, I do that in some cases), should we not have awards for the worst performances in everything? After all, mediocrity is a lot more prevalent than quality, and in a democratic sense, why should just the outperformers have all the enjoyable; the underperformers ought to likewise have their day in the sun. That would be a celebration of real life, instead of of some inaccessible ideal. In my opinion, the "worstest" (exists such a word?) performers in every field are simply as distinct as the "bestest". Besides, this type of award would be much more satisfying. In the American Idol, for instance, the initial choice procedure, featuring the worst singers is a lot more enjoyable than the later rounds. Commemorating the buffoons is better than worshipping the "Idols".

For starters, I want to see a "Chutzpah" award. Stemmed from the Yiddish language, Chutzpah is a word that indicates effrontery, impudence, and straight-out gall. The traditional definition (by Leo Rosten) is: "that quality preserved in a man who, having killed his mom and daddy, tosses himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan." In between our politicians and Wall Street huge wigs, we can easily find numerous, lots of deserving candidates for these awards.

How about the admirable Chutzpah of a State Governor who attempts to offer a vacant Senate seat for money? When exposed, he brazenly proclaims his innocence and installs a media blitz, offering interviews to all the news channels. He would quickly get my nomination.

A worthy rival would be another State Guv, who set up trysts with a 5 star call girl in Washington D.C. This was a guy understood for his probity, had been prosecuting numerous financial companies for their misdemeanors. He had actually probably not heard the saying that people who live in glass houses need to not throw stones, and he needs to have made numerous enemies in his earlier days.

Still another would be a previous President, whose shenanigans in the White Home oral office (oops, I meant Oval Workplace) nearly resulted in his impeachment, but who in some way escaped.

Let Presenta Plaque us not forget the Wall Street executive who lost $15 billion for his business and after that requested for a 30 million dollar bonus offer, declaring that, if not for his efforts, the loss would have been much higher. He then proceeded to invest over a million dollars to remodel his workplace. We could likewise celebrate the Fortune 500 bank that accepted a government bailout and after that tried to send numerous it's' workers on a 2 week junket to Las Vegas, till public outrage required it to cancel its' strategies.

Anyhow, you get the picture; there is no shortage of "deserving" prospects for the Nerve awards. Nevertheless, it is rather possible, or perhaps likely, that these distinguished individuals might not discover time, or be too "modest" to go to the award ceremony. No problem, there are a lot of proficient impersonators who could be hired to walk up to the phase on their behalf.