“The Ultimate Book of Farting” is winner of the Failure of Nerve Award. The Award Committee found much to praise in the mechanism which produced a fart each time the book was opened.
So, why the outbreak of gaiety? Well, it’s because the annual Founders Book Fair always opens on the Saturday of Queen’s Birthday weekend. My J.Q. (Joy Quotient) always is always high at this time but it reached dangerously high levels when I discovered that Nelson Musical Theatre was staging a garage sale, right next to Founders on the very same day.
These two competing manifestations of Nirvana drove me to the brink of madness. I would have toppled over the edge, except for my responsibilities as chairperson of the Founder's Book Fair Awards Committee.
It is in this capacity that I would like to announce 2014 Award winners. Envelope please ...