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Yesssssssssss!!!

We are on the finals!!

I am talking about The MADs award for Most Innovative MAD blog!

I have no idea how that happened… well I do know and all I can say is THANK YOU ALL  for the vote that put the UrbanVox HQ there! There’sactually a chance that I might win that thing… but I will need your help once more… And it will only take 2 minutes of your time to head up here and vote for UrbanVox once again for the Most Innovative MAD blog (BTW…w hile you’re at it, you can vote for Glowstars as best looking blog too… I made it!!! )

The other blogs going for the prize are awesome… Cafebebe, Notes From Lapland, Little Mummy and My Daddy Cooks are all in my reader (and I follow them on twitter)… and I am happy to even being a finalist but as Heather (from notes from lapland) said: “Hell…. I want those prizes!!!”… Ok she didn’t use these exact words… but you know what I mean…

So… time to go and vote… and tell the family… people you seeon the streets… everyone to go go and vote URBANVOX for the Most inovative Blog… Please pretty please….

And if it is a bribe that you need… well… If I win, then I will match @glowstars give away and one lucky reader will win a professionally designed blog template complete with 1 year free web-hosting + domain!

How’s that for an incentive?!?!?!?!

All you need to do is go and vote urbanvox for Most Innovative MAD Blog!

Zya later Crocodiles!

First of all… sorry for taking so long to publish the results of the Laughing monkey awards…

As I have explained before… new job… and one heck of a manic week at it (we’re running a world cup special this month… LOADS of designy things to do… but it is finally over! Mag should be on the streets today… yayyyy )

Anyway… back to the award…

It was one of the most difficult decisions ever… I mean… I’ve never seem a group of people so willing of showing their embarrassments to the world… and how… each more embarrassing than the other…

It took loads of time and consideration to reach the veredict we have (and recruiting a 3rd judge to make the final decision…) but we got there at some point last night…

and the winner is… Gemma… with her 3 part most embarrassing moment EVER… If you haven’t read it yet… go and take a look… It is well worth it.

Thanks to all for joining the fun and being gracious enough to make an entry! You all deserve the laughing monkey award so wear that badge loud and proud and stay tuned for more stuff like that here at the UrbanVox HQ.

Next week we’ll be running another give-awayhere at UrbanVox.Net and at Glowstars.net!! Fancy having a whole year free webhosting+professional design for your blog?????? Yup… you might win just that on our next give away (out next week… so keep an eye open for it!!!).

BTW… The UrbanVox HQ is a finalist at The MADs award running for most inovative MAD blog!!!! yayyy… go and vote for me! pretty pleeeeeaaase!

And Vote for glowstars.net as best looking blog!

Anyways…

zya!!!!

Yup… as you too might already know I too was nominated for The MADs and as it is my obligation… no… MY DUTY… I am here to shamelessly BEG you to come and vote for me!!!

I was going to write a cool post talking about why you should come and vote for me… but The Wife did such a great job that I will shamelessly just plagiarize what she wrote on her own blog (I know u gonna read that baby… but it is in the best of interests that I do that and you know it!!… ).

There it goes!!!

Yes, you know what’s coming. And for those who don’t, nominations are flooding in for the MADs, a brand new set of awards celebrating British mummy and daddy bloggers. By now most people have probably put in their nominations and if you haven’t, well then let me sway you with a little bribery.

If I get shortlisted for any award (the five blogs with the highest nominations in each category go through to the next round) I will do a giveaway on this blog. Not just any old tat, but something rather nice. Perhaps you’d like to choose the prize yourselves. But of course first, I need to get shortlisted. And just to make it a bit more fun, if I then get voted the winner, I’ll make that giveaway prize grow in numbers. The more nominations I get (and hopefully the more wins) the more prizes there’ll be to go around.

You can nominate blogs for a MAD award here.

Of course, having been around for as long as I have, I’m not eligible for the best new blog category. Worse still, in another category I’m up against the wife. This could be a very interesting process. To help you out with your nominations take a look at the table below which suggests which of the wife and I you should nominate in each category.

*If you nominate glowstars.net for Best-Looking MAD Blog it’s not just the wife you’re nominating but the ME,  as I was the one who came up with this rather funky new layout.

So remember, nominations mean shortlists and shortlists mean prizes. Plus one (two) happy blogger (s).

Thank you.

well… you know what I mean…

You have got to be kidding!!!

Apparently the TFL’s bosses have something against Kelly Brook’s boobs. The posters for the new Cast of of the play Calendar Girls featuring the actress’ 32E cleavage covered by cherry-topped pastries had to be re-drawn 3 times because the buns she is holding weren’t big enough to “cover her modesty”.

Forget the fact that in every other promotional picture that can be found all over the place (including at the escalators of a few tube stations) smaller buns can be seen in the same pose.

When asked by the London Lite about the poster a TFL spokesman said they just asked that “a few tweaks” were made to it to ensure their ad complide with their [TFL] police.

Here between you and me… the “few tweaks” only made it look as if she’s splatted the buns on her boobs… yum yum… (LOL)

zya!