Nomination Ballot: Pickled Toadies

[Haggridd]

I didn't realize how hard this would be until I sat down to try to 
fill out this ballot.  I couldn't complete it in one go.

1. Best Filk from a musical (best showtune). 
Winner:  "Height Three Foot Ten" by CMC
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/newfilks.htm#Height_Three_Foot_Ten

Runner-up: "Keeper of the House" by Lisa I.
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/faculty/filch.htm#Keeper_of_the_House

2. Best filk from a movie or television show 
soundtrack. 

Winner:  "Talk to the Basilisks" by CMC
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/students/harry.htm#Talk_to_the_Basilisks


3. Best filk of a "Tin Pan Alley" song. 

Winner: "That's why Ol' Snapey is a Vamp" by Pippin
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/faculty/snape.htm#That's_Why_Ol'_Snapey_
is_a_Vamp

Runner-up:  "Me and My Dad's Cloak" by Judy Nathanson
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/students/harry.htm#Me_And_My_Dad's_Cloak

4. Best filk of a Gilbert & Sullivan song.
 
Winner:  "A Sorting Song By Severus" by Textual Sphinx
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/newfilks.htm#Severus'_Sorting_Songs

Runner-up: "Three Profs from Hogwarts School are We"
by Eloise
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/faculty/dada.htm#Three_Profs_from_Hogwar
ts_School_are_We

5. Best filk of a Beatles, song or of a later song by 
any of the individual Beatles. 

Winner:  "Riddle's Giant Basilisk" by Pippin
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/secrets.htm#Riddle's_Giant_Basilisk


Runner-up:  "Potter's Fame" by Gryffleraverin
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/students/harry.htm#Potter's_Fame


6. Best filk of a Rock & Roll song written prior to 
1980. 

Winner:  "Unregistered Animagi" by Marina Floyr
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/azkaban.htm#Unregistered_Animagi

Runner-up: "Mr. Black, You Made a Fine Marauder" by Tann
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/students/marauders.htm#Mr._Black,_You_Ma
de_a_Fine_Marauder

7. Best filk of a Rock & Roll song written in 1980 or 
later.
 
Winner:  "Jump This Way" by Amber
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/gofire.htm#Jump_This_Way

8. Best filk of a Disney song.
 
Winner:  "You Ain't Never Met a Fiend Like Me" by Gryffleraverin
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/gofire.htm#You_Ain't_Never_Met_a_Fiend_L
ike_Me


9. Best filk of a Tom Lehrer song.

Winner: "Igor Karkaroff" by Gail Bohacek
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/places/durmstrang.htm

Runner-up:  "The Sphinx" by CMC
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/gofire.htm#The_Sphinx

10. Best filk of a Christmas Carol (etc.). 

Winner:  "Lockhart the Dark Arts Teacher" by Gail Bohacek
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/faculty/lockhart.htm#Lockhart_the_Dark_A
rts_Teacher

11. Best filk of a tune not known to the listener. 

Winner: "Werewolf of Hogwarts" by Polish Girl
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/faculty/lupin.htm#Werewolf_of_Hogwarts

12. Most favorite filk as nominated by its author. 

Winner: "Transfiguration" by Haggridd.  I am particularly fond of 
this filk because it had both the problems of a patter song, with the 
necessity of matching the original author's cadence of words, and a 
traditional song, with rhyme scheme, meter, etc.  I think that I 
succeeded in capturing some of the exact flavor of the same jokes 
that Tom Leher did, for example, in the line, "That is to say, 
hooves, to the two".  Anyway, these are among the reasons it is the 
favorite thing I've done.

Runner-up:  "Professor Lockhart" by Haggridd.
When I saw the passage in the DADA class where Lockhart was 
recounting his prowess with the Wagga Wagga werewolf, I rejoiced. I 
knew just where I could use it:  in the passage where John Adams 
quotes thomas Jefferson to convince him to write the declartation of 
Independence.  The closeness of the parallel (in my mind) to Snape 
browbeating Lockhart to fulfill his boast in the filk was scary.  So 
this one is number two for me.  Here is a link:
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/secrets.htm#Professor_Lockhart

13. Best HP fandom filk- SHIP, TBAY, waiting for OoP, 
etc.
 
I dunno.

14. Best Dramatization of a scene from canon in a 
serious fashion; or Best serious filk. 

Winner:  "Cedric Diggory Guy" by Steffan
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/students/cedric.htm

Runner-up:  "The Goblet Game" by Toby Howe
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/gofire.htm#The_Goblet_Game

15. Best Dramatization of a scene from canon in a 
humorous fashion; or Funniest filk. 

16. Best choice of vehicle. 

I dunno yet.

17. Best Filk.

I just can't pick one.  There are so many great filks.

-Haggridd