The HubNugget Holiday Awards Dinner

Many celebrations fill the Holiday Season and HubPages includes them all. We have Hubbers from just about everywhere... Just think! - If we could recruit one of the astronauts from the International Space Station, HubPages would rule Outer Space as well!

Mid-way through December, HubNuggetry is celebrating with this HubNugget Holiday Awards Dinner. The weekly HubNuggets Awards will be presented after you, our Readers, vote for your favorite in each of the three categories below. You will be dazzled, delighted, and dumbfounded with unusually Good and Tasty Nuggets of writing as we gather around the communal table. At the same time, our solid-as-a-rock (think "diamond") HubAngel, ripplemaker, will spread her usual Joy amongst the Wannabes making every day a holiday.

And let's not discuss politics at dinner, although that may prove difficult...

You'll remember from the last HubNuggets episode that I retrieved my paper on the Anthropological Traditions of Mardi Gras. It's so good to have it back, because it contains interesting interviews with grandparents and great grandparents of acquaintances in Louisiana. Also-like, because Mardis Gras can begin with weekly celebrations during the Christmas Season. Beginning with the 12th Night Party (the 12th Night of Christmas), these celebrations snowball into more frequent events and into daily galas during the week before the biggest party of all: Fat Tuesday.

I don't know if the New Orleans Krewes will do the weekly parties this year, but our HubNuggets Krewe will!

We'll begin early and highlight current Hubs by new HP Writers (HubNuggets Wannabes) in 1) Gender and Relationships, 2) Holidays and Celebrations, and 3) Religion and Belief - topics just right for Christmas and Winter Holidays.

And since we begin pre-Mardi Gras with an early 12th Night, I have a good excuse to wear a mask.

• Source1: Infrogmation [GFDL(www.gnu.org/copyleft/ fdl.html),CC-BY-;Source2: ibid.[ibid.]

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Come in and have a beverage! The fun has already begun...

DeGreek at a podium on a platform - This is an expressly fine group of Hubs from our HubNuggets Wannabes this week. Let me just enumerate the titles for you. The first title is a great Tribute to the Garter -

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK

RedElf - Keep reading Sir DeGreek, I'll greet our new guests.

[tippy tippy toe toe dance dance dance - RedElf had just recently seen The Nutcracker and so, danced to the door]

Greetings, guests!

[Enter a parade of floats with honking horns and noisemakers, carrying the US First Family, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin with her family and a moose, Hiawatha and Pocahontas, and Bonnie Prince Charlie with a group of French advisors, who had become singers over the centuries.]

Hmmm...Could be a Trojan Horse - of course, of course.

Enelle Lamb - My my, more Ghosts of Past, Present, and Future! When you write a good story, RedElf, it surely retains it's life.

Empress Zsuzsy Bee (to the parade) - Thank you all for attending our Awards Dinner and bringing the entertainment! -- Please park your floats behind the stage area and have your Actors Guild cards punched..

KoffeeKlatch Gals - Enelle and RedElf!-- Let's see if we have enough food in the kitchen! We weren't expecting a national convention. [They run into the kitchen area.]

KoffeeKlatch Gals - Patty, we'd better put on some more coffee, some strange people have just arrived. We need the strength of a hot drink!

Chef P.I. - Let me guess - the RELATIVES! -- We'll need more mashed potatoes!

RedElf - That's not on the First Lady's nutritional agenda...

Enelle Lamb - More for the rest of us!

While the four kitchen divas sort through the menu and pantry stores, DeGreek announced the first batch of 6 HubNugget Wannabes as the entertainment began:

The four kitchen ninjas produced enough food for the throngs of celebrants that attended the HubNuggets Holiday Dinner Awards - and nobody criticized the mashed potatoes.

The kitchen krewe also developed a place to put relatives that stay too long.

The back pantry was equipped with trays of food and sedated drinks, big screen HDTV, a small dance floor, and a sound system. Anyone led back to this brig would never know the difference. Already, two party crashers were ensconced in the chamber - Mitt Romney, and Glen Beck in his Christmas Sweater, both talking at once and having a good time.

Enelle Lamb and RedElf - Chef P.I., are you really related to all those politicians?

Chef P.I. - Not Sarah Palin, she's related to Rush Limbaugh on the other side, so she's related to me only by a once-removed factor, indirectly-like...As for Charlie - does this plaid toque make me look fat?

KoffeKlatch Gals - MORE COFFEE! This could be a nightmare.

Back at the podium, President Barack Obama gave a short speech, ending with a quote from the well known actor Brent Spiner, who recently posted on Twitter: "I celebrate all holidays of all peoples."

With that, President Obama announced the next 6 Hubnuggets Wannabes:

Things began to become crowded at the podium, so Sir DeGreek and Empress Zsuzsy Bee took a break to eat, while the politicians shuffled for position. However, none of them could find the final list of HubNugget Wannabes! It was lost somewhere (perhaps in the pages of one of their important new books).

RedElf and Enelle Lamb put on their cutest Kitty smiles and wove in and out of the crowd at the podium, asking for autographs. They led the distracted politicians to the back pantry whilst immersed in signing their names. Rush went easily, speaking to the cats about his talk show and the recent appearance on Family Guy); Sarah and her family were very happy to see a dance floor in the pantry. Charlie got into an argument with Glen Beck, asking him what in blazes his Christmas Sweater book meant. The First Family headed off to their next dinner engagement.

Charlie's French choral group sang for the crowd out front and my Native American relatives blended right in at the table, as the Eastern Woodlands tribes often did, even in the 1600s.

That just left the moose.

Bullwinkle J. Moose:

I see that someone dropped a letter here on the platform --

Fan mail from some flounder?

No, it's the final list of 6 HubNugget Wannabes --

And now, here's something we hope you'll really like!

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KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK (from the back pantry)

DeGreek - No, dear politicians, you may not come out of the pantry. But here is a case of paper and some pencils for your next books. I'll be critiquing them for you at a nominal charge.

Zsuzsy Bee - Did they have their cards punched?

DeGreek - Doubtful.

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The Winter Holidays and Christmas Party will continue for weeks and weeks, so drop into HubNuggets Wannabes roundup Hubs any time. A new one is posted every Friday, usually by 3:00 PM PST or before. For information on this recognition program, visit our Learning Center at the embedded link.

There's no energy needed to enter the contest other than to write high-quality Hubs, for eligible Hubs are gathered by computer and sent to the HubNuggets Krewe. We then narrow down the eligibles to 6 Wannabes each in three categories, which rotate weekly (3 different categories each week). YOU, our handsome and beautiful Readers determine the winners with your votes.

Wannabes! - Promote your nominated Hubs in any way except spamming a lot of emails, placing your link in the comments below, or in the HubPages Forums. Please do place a post and a link to this Hub in your Social Networking sites and ask your friends, coworkers, family, and 500 cousins to vote for you on this Hub. If your distant relatives show up from centuries past like mine have, ask them to vote as well! Anyone with Internet access can vote - no memberships, no costs required. One vote per IP address, though.

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