We need to hear from you. Submit your nomination for Carbolic Smoke Ball Person of the Year to: thecarbolicsmokeball@yahoo.com Your email address will not be posted, but the most "creative" nomination, as determined by Judge Peckham and our Board of Trustees, will be awarded an authentic Carbolic Smoke Ball shirt -- first batch is now in production (on sale next week).The Carbolic Smoke Ball Person of the Year is the most prestigious award in cyberspace, chosen annually by this publication since 1933. This year's selection will be announced December 22 at a gala awards ceremony in the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. The winner's name will be inscribed on the Carbolic Cup with all the others.
The Person of the Year is the person or animal who has made the greatest contribution to simulated news in the past year. Nominees for Person of the Year are submitted by the readers of this Web site, and the final selection is made by Judge Peckham, in consultation with our Board of Trustees. The winner will be accorded the title of Person of the Year for a full three hundred and sixty-five calendar days, unless stripped of the title by the Judge or the Board of Trustees for reasons in their sole and arbitrary discretion. In the event the Person of the Year is, for any reason, unable to perform the Person of the Year duties, including but not limited to personal appearances, USO tours, organ donations, game-show guest spots, radio interviews, autograph signings, and photo shoots, the title will revert to the previous winner, or to some other person that Judge Peckham feels like giving it to. Don't delay! Email your nominee today.
PAST CARBOLIC SMOKE BALL PERSONS OF THE YEAR
1933 (Tie) Baron Von Hindenburg, Zeppo Marx
1934 Tom Joad
1935 (Tie) Una O'Connor, Julius Marx
1936 General Francisco Franco
1937 (Tie) Charlie McCarthy, Thomas Jefferson (posthumous)
1938 Mortimer Snerd
1939 Joachim Von Ribbentrop
1940 Leon Trotsky
1941 (Tie) Joe Dimaggio, Hideki Tojo
1942 Sydney Greenstreet
1943 General George S. Patton
1944 Leo Gorcey
1945 Eva Braun
1946 Enos "Country" Slaughter
1947 Frank Sinatra
1948 J. Robert Oppenheimer
1949 (Tie) Alger Hiss, Bill Veeck
1950 Whittaker Chambers
1951 Bobby Thompson
1952 Senator Joseph McCarthy
1953 Terry Malloy
1954 (Tie) Johnny Friendly, Joseph Welch
1955 Senator Estes Kevaufer
1956 The American Housewife
1957 Governor Orvil Faubus
1958 (Tie) Vice-President Richard Nixon, The Nairobi Trio
1959 Robert Stack
1960 (Tie) Joseph Kennedy, Sr., Bill Mazeroski
1961 (Tie) Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher
1962 Fidel Castro
1963 (Tie) Jack Ruby, The June Taylor Dancers
1964 Sonny Liston
1965 George Lazenby
1966 Adam West
1967 (Tie) Timothy Leary, Quinn Martin
1968 (Tie) Jack Webb, The Silent Majority
1969 (Tie) The American Hippie, Jack Webb
1970 President Richard Nixon
1971 Roberto Clemente
1972 Vice-President Spiro Agnew
1973 Mary Richards
1974 (Tie) Governor Milton Shapp, Meadowlark Lemon
1975 (Tie) Bob Prince and Bernie Carbo
1976 (Tie) John-Boy Walton, Ron Stackhouse
1977 Bella Abzug
1978 Billy Carter
1979 Lynda Carter
1980 (Tie) John Anderson, Eugene "Jeep" DePasquale, Michelle Madoff
1981 Larry Hagman
1982 Pac-Man
1983 (Tie) Ayatollah Khomeini, Clara Peller
1984 George Orwell
1985 Reverend D. Douglas Roth
1986 (Tie) Scott Baio, Cyril Wecht
1987 Mikhail Gorbachev
1988 Dan Quayle
1989 Earl Anthony
1990 Chuck Noll
1991 Paul Reuben
1992 Francisco Cabrera
1993 Newt Gingrich
1994 O.J. Simpson
1995 Neil O'Donnell
1996 Roseanne Barr
1997 Chuckles, the fresh water dolphin
1998 Mayor Tom Murphy
1999 Mulu Birru
2000 Kordell Stewart
2001 A Space Odyssey
2002 Derek Bell (the baseball player)
2003 (Tie) Vice-President Dick Cheney, T.C. Congdon (vendor)
2004 (Tie) Uday and Qusay Hussein
2005 Jim Ecker
