Raise your hand if you miss the DUzys

[Duer 157099]

That's what is sorely missing from here, that periodic reminder of all the wit and whimsy that DU has buried within it's pages.

We need them back.

[Turbineguy]

1. Is there a smilie for that?

:headbang:

[Occulus]

25. Of course there is

[gateley]

2. Some of them had me crying I was laughing so hard! But that was a LOT of

work for JeffR! Big commitment -

[MineralMan]

3. Well, the thing is that JeffR, the person who did those for

so long, isn't around DU much anymore. I'd ask him why, but I think I know. Too bad, too.

(Disclaimer: I was a frequent DUzy recipient, and miss them very much.)

[SoCalDem]

10. I miss them too

:cry:

[sufrommich]

15. I didn't know he left, that's too bad. I won a couple of them too. nt

[MineralMan]

16. I did a search. He's still a DUer, but has only posted in the

Photography group recently, and his last post was February 9. He said in another place that he was withdrawing from participation in political issues on DU. Many others have done the same, for various reasons.

Others have tried to do the DUzy selections, but none have lasted long at that very trying job.

[panader0]

4. Yeah, I looked every week for the laughs

and managed to win a few of my own. But I'm sure it was a huge amount of work.

[northoftheborder]

5. What were the DUzy's???

[The Doctor.]

7. Samples;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1657360

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4761186

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5935511


It was a LOT of work by JeffR.

Enjoy!

[11 Bravo]

17. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane. (I got DUzys on two of the threads you posted!)

One of them was my all-time DUzy-winningest thread ever with five!

[The Doctor.]

22. Well, you are a joy to behold.

:hi:

I had a couple somewhere among them. I'm no sterling wit though.

Maybe brass-plated.

[The Doctor.]

24. This exchange slew me;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1646416#1646428

[Bobbie Jo]

32. ROFL

:rofl: thanks for that.

[Matariki]

6. hand. raised.

[UrbScotty]

8. (raises hand)

[malaise]

9. hand raised

Miss them big time

[JoePhilly]

11. I miss them. nt

[sarge43]

12. Hand in air. n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Agreed. Hand raised.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Bobbie Jo]

14. I miss the DU'er who made it happen.

Sadly...he tired of the nastiness long ago.

Even if you tried to bring it back, it just wouldn't be the same.

Many have tried....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. I miss them too, as well as JeffR...

We lost something precious when he stopped posting...

[Pat Riot]

19. Maybe if they were less often

Monthly or semi annually rather than weekly? Someone has to submit to the mod, not the mod searching the whole site? Not sure how it worked before.

[GoCubsGo]

20. Yes, I do.

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. Over here, in the back corner.

Hand raised.

[Duer 157099]

23. I wonder if the admins could build it into DU3?

Add a button, like the rec/unrec, for DUzys.

OK that's insane, given how much trouble the rec/unrec buttons generate.

But still, it seems like it could at least be semi-automated somehow.

Our admins are smart and talented, I bet they could figure out a way.

[Raine]

26. Me, me me

I sure miss them.

[beac]

27. .

Really, really miss them.

Won some and nearly died laughing many, many times at the things others won for.

[Homer Wells]

28. For Sure, I DO

but not as much as I miss the TOP 10 Conservative Idiots.

[Hubert Flottz]

29. I didn't know there wasn't any DUzys left at DU...

I read them all the time.

[Ghost in the Machine]

30. I brought them back for a little while, but there didn't seem to be much interest in them..

I'm sure most of that was due to the fact that it was.. well.. me doing them lol.

I still have the templates and everything that JeffR gave me, and I have mulled the thought over about reviving them again. They really weren't that hard to do, nor all that much time consuming because, unlike JeffR, I have a LOT of free time on my hands. They were always a joy reading when JeffR was doing them, and I was honored that he let me take them over. I enjoyed doing them, it gave me something constructive to do...

[senseandsensibility]

36. Maybe you should try again?

:shrug:

[rug]

31. There are days when I just sit and click on this for hours.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pl-du%C5%BCy.ogg

:cry:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/du%C5%BCy

[lunatica]

33. frantic waving arm here!

[Critters2]

34. ...

:hi:

[Dappleganger]

35. Definitely miss them!!