Still Life with Robin: The Cleveland Park Listies Are Coming - Get Your Nominations In Now!

 by Peggy Robin

Each year we give out awards for the best CP Listserv post in a variety of categories. All year long I've been keeping a list of my favorites, but I love hearing from Listserv members who've been doing the same. 

If you haven't been keeping a list but have a vague memory of a great post from on the Listserv in 2023, you can look it up in the archives by keyword or by the name of the poster (if you remember it). Search instructions are here:

http://www.cleveland-park.com/searching-the-archives.html

The categories may vary a bit from year to year but if we can come up with five solid nominees in each category, we'll give out Listies for the following "bests":

• BEST GIVEAWAY
  
• BEST ANIMAL STORY
  
• BEST QUERY OR ISO POST
  
• BEST ADVICE OR MOST CREATIVE WAY TO SOLVE A PROBLEM
  
• BEST LONG DISCUSSION THREAD
  
• PHOTO of the YEAR
  
• POST OF THE YEAR
  

And when I say we'll give out Listies, I do mean a physical object that you can display proudly on your mantel, right next to your Oscar, your Emmy, your Grammy, and your Olympic gold medal. OK, it's going to be a bit small in comparison to those other trophies, but if you put if you own a Barbie Dreamhouse, it's the perfect size! And while it's not a big object, it is the finest and shiniest gold plastic -- 100% recyclable, too! (So don't throw it in the trash, if you don't want it!) 

It's only the second year that we've had an actual trophy to hand out, which makes the CP Listy a rare prize indeed!

You can even self-nominate -- don't be shy! Send your Listy-worthy messages to clevelandparklistservmoderator@gmail.com.

For the next three Saturdays, we'll be posting the nominations, in the following sequence:

December 9: Best Giveaway; Best Animal Story; Best Query/ISO Post

December 16: Best Advice/r Most Creative Way to Solve a Problem; Best Long Discussion Thread

December 25: Photo of the Year; Post of the Year

Winners will be announced on December 30th!

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Still Life with Robin is published on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.