Anorak Nation Housepoints

From time to time, as a bit of fun, imaginary 'housepoints' are issued to Anorak Nation contributors. They can be given for a number of reasons, including as part of a fun quiz, or because of recommendation from others owing to a really interesting posting or conversation. A lot are allocated by the weekly Housepoint Monitor. (More about Housepoint Monitors below)

Anorak Nation housepoints can also be taken away for being naughty, but only an 'in fun' being naughty, of course.

Here we keep a tally of who has what, and there may (or may not) be a prize for the contributor with the most housepoints at the end of a period of time.

Housepoints can be ramdomly awarded by Moderators, or by the Housepoint Monitor of the week, for any an apparently valid reason.

(All decisions about housepoints are up to the moderators or Housepoint Monitor who are allowed to have favourites, cheat, and generally accept bribes, but will try to appear fair.)

Anorak Nation Housepoints Chart:

Frank(ee) = 1160
09/05/04 +5 for admitting he hates pro-sport. But only 5 because I disagree with him. 09/05/04 +25 for respectfully smarming up to me as HP monitor at the start of the week 05/05/04 +50 for disagreeing with CE about politics yet remaining friendly and not resorting to insults. 04/05/04 +50 for "=­?utf-8?q?Fw=­3A_­=­5BDRM-L=­5D_­DRM_­radio_­for_­?=­=­?utf-8?b?4oKsMTE5?=" (the most interesting thread title of the week).­ 03/05/04 +201 for being an all round good guy and defending members of this group elsewhere. 03/04/04 +10 for doing a good job (as HM) last week.
17/02/04 +30 at Dermott's request for being an overall good bloke, who is never unpleasant on list, who always tries to help out where he can, who sends entertaining and informative postings. 14/02/04 +666 for owning the Aphroditie's Child 666 album.
02/02/04 +2 for saying complex stuff about measuring wavelength in feet and inches, that nobody understood. 28/01/04 +100 for shutting up and not ranting, yet not getting housepoints whilst others do. 24/01/04 +1 for solidarity with CE about a new radio ship not having a point. 23/01/04 +10 for ranting, cloaking, and then asking for housepoints. 20/01/04 +10 for not being smug about impressively listening to Radio Scotland millions of miles away.

Eric Wiltsher = 1092
09/05/04 +20 for being realistic about 3g phones
04/05/04 +50 for common sense:"Haven't bothered to do a reverse or even standard look-up. Sites with no address, phone, dar-di-dah – I just leave them to do what they think they're doing. Eric" 05/03/04 +25 for being completely unselfish when it comes to housepoints 05/03/04 -50 kindly donated to Geoff Rogers for taking flack
05/03/04 -50 kindly donated to John for taking more flack
28/03/04 +25 for his career, offering us all kinds of media information, and particularly his knowledgeable postings on this list.
19/03/04 +30 for semi-naked photos of some bird who can sing.
27/02/04 +1000 as a bribe, erm, not a bribe, erm, as an appreciation of the fact that he might be planning to provide toys and freebies for AN subscribers. 07/02/04 +10 for not being a smart arse and saying Ner-ne-ne-ner-ner after 'winning' a point of discussion. 05/02/04 +2 for continuing to suffer his name being spelt wrongly. (The latest variation seems to be Wilsher). 05/02/04 +10 for liking Geoff and Nicholas' shag jokes.
30/01/04 +10 for eating worms due to a lack of housepoints.
30/01/04 +10 for being close to throwing his teddies out of the pram.

Chris Bent = 876
09/05/04 +25 for telling us about the Tony Blackburn Binky Baker song 14/02/04 +666 for proving he has the Aphroditie's Child 666 album. 09/02/04 +10 because he is blackmailing CE about the secret he knows about what CE did. 09/02/04 +25 for kindly providing a copy of the song Radio Seagull (1970s) used to close down on. 06/02/04 +150 as a bribe so he doesn't reveal to the whole Anorak Nation how CE was to blame for something that happened.

Mike Brand = 675
09/05/04 +25 to help soothe any paranoia
17/02/04 +100 after a conspiracy between him and Frank(ee) to gain housepoints for having an Alguin album. Sigh. 27/01/04 +50 for pointing out he was a BRAND leader.
20/01/04 +500 for having recordings of nearly everything that's happened offshore in Israel.

Paul Rusling = 509
09/05/04 +25 for wanting to give away all his points
17/02/04 -25 for knowing something we don't know.
17/02/04 -1 for not offering Christopher England a job (yet).
17/02/04 +500 for finally having good news.
30/01/04 +5 for remembering RTD's birthday.
30/01/04 +5 for having thus far been deprived of points despite having made lots of them.

Geoff Rogers = 427
09/05/04 +50 for also being a rebel and showing his allegance to a certain pro football team and playing their anthem on his show when it wasn't on the playlist. 03/05/04 +50 from that kind man Eric for flack suffering.
03/05/04 +300 for all the c**p he had to suffer elsewhere defending myself, Chris and this group here and elsewhere. 28/03/04 +25 for his efforts elsewhere defending the dignity of this reflector. 05/02/04 +30 for a very funny play on words involving 'shag', 'carpet' and the 'boss'. (More than Nicholas' for a similar type of joke because (a) it involved 'the boss' and (b) because I can.) 30/01/04 +10 for learning how to manage this site under the expert tuition of Mr England.
27/01/04 +2 for having to suffer the indignity of having his name misspelt. 23/01/04 +10 for telling Stewart he doesn't need to worry about the load on his pipe.

Nicholas Mead = 293
09/05/04 +50 to help get over the trauma of losing 3000 points the other week 03/05/04 -300 for obtaining 2831 points by nefarious means such as bribery 03/05/04 -2831 forfeited housepoints
03/04/04 +10 for being the unofficial political reporter/commentator of the week on Anorak Nation. 19/03/04 +2831 for a number of different things, mainly more bribery, and raids on the stock of housepoints. 14/03/04 +373 for giving CE his pearls of wisdom.
25/02/04 +50 as a bribe to keep certain things locked in his secret 'W file', whilst slowly releasing others. 19/02/04 +10 for spotting real 'preaching' in a CE post.
13/02/04 +50 for telling a good clean joke somehow linked to radio (Mike Read). 05/02/04 +23 for a funny play on words involving 'shag' and 'carpet'. 30/01/04 +2 for having one-and-a-half ears, to CE's three-quarters of just one. 30/01/04 +5 for slipping in a plug for http://www.lumpit.com
20/01/04 +10 for suggesting CE once used the name of his arch enemy Peter Moore as his DJ name when he was 11. 20/01/04 +10 for being a rebel and smoking in the bike sheds, as we like rebels.

Christopher England = 290
09/05/04 +20 for mentioning "that strange alcoholic guy who kept sending me weird threatening email" 05/05/04 +50 for disagreeing with Frank(ee) about politics yet remaining friendly and not resorting to insults. 05/05/04 +50 for being able to navigate the OFCOM site.
05/05/04 -50 for providing an unworkable link.
05/05/04 +100 for providing us with "Anorak Nation".
04/05/04 + 10 for knowing how to make a washed-up old has-been feel good. 03/04/04 +10, which was +1,000 for getting it right about Mr Moyles. However he instantly lost 990 for: “As predicted by me, I think.” And “Also predicted by me.” 28/03/04 +50 for supplying us with the reflector which at the same time reflects intelligence, humour, stupidity, outright lies and a place where we can feel at home. 28/03/04 +50 for entrusting me (Frankee) with the difficult task of the Housepoint Monitorship. 28/03/04 +1 for denegativising him.
22/02/04 +50 for saying he'd go out and work on a new offshore radio station. 06/02/04 -150 for being to blame for something that happened (Chris Bent knows all about it and stole these housepoints). 23/01/04 -1 for making an un-pc remark.
20/01/04 +200 for revealing he was once "Collapsible" Thruster Jetpack "the man of many parts". 19/01/04 -100 for talking about how he used to play at being a radio pirate when he was 11.

John Barry = 235
09/05/05 +50 for being so generous as to wanting to be excluded from the housepoints league 09/05/04 +25 for agreeing with me about Digital One's plans to hijack some of the nationa DAB bandwidth 09/05/04 +25 for seemingly being the only person here who's also interested in professional football. 09/05/04 +5 for 'keeping the faith' as regards the Communicator
03/04/04 +10 for sticking to his guns about Radio 1.
27/02/04 +10 for always being willing to admit when he's wrong. 09/02/04 +10 for saying something positive about DAB.
19/01/04 +100 for slogging on in what appears to be a lone, yet well fought, crusade against the misguided postings of Christopher and / or Eric, and constantly coming back for more.

Alex Jenkins = 201
09/05/04 +25 for suggesting the Mic Coren was re-writing history. 28/03/04 +25 for being a nice guy and suggesting Gary Foster should deserve Housepoints for correcting a mistake by Christopher England. 30/01/04 +50 for working under a particular Programme Controller and living to tell the tale. 20/01/04 +1 for owning a recording of Radio Scotland.
05/02/04 +100 for expressing outrage at Eric having suggestive thoughts about someone called Alex.

Roger Day = 170
09/05/04 +25 for strengthening his rebel status by refusing to play a Eurovision winner in the 70s cos it was crap. 05/05/04 +100 for being brilliant.
03/04/04 +25 for plugging his book: "Here I am again answering two questions. Hope this won't affect the sales of my book." 30/01/04 +10 for continuing to agree, at least in part, with CE about Radio 1. 28/01/04 +10 in celebration of finally agreeing with CE about something.

Gary Fosster = 150
28/03/04 +50 for detecting a mistake in a posting from Christopher England attributing a Don Spencer song to Don Alen) and being brave enough to mention it. 20/01/04 +100 for making a moderator laugh with a swipe at a list he's banned from.

George G4RNI = 130
03/04/04 +10 to keep him ahead of CE.
03/04/04 +10 for struggling on despite his broken mit.
21/03/04 +100 for the nice poem about Radio Caroline.
01/02/04 +5 for having a sexy callsign.
01/02/04 +5 for knowing bigotted women.

John England = 100
05/05/04 +100 for 20 years worth of bullshit.

Books = 100
05/05/04 +100 for being able to navigate the OFCOM and providing a workable link to the RSL info.

It's Pete Really = 100
04/05/04 +100 for taking the time to write an informative, well-thought-through, answer to a question on Caroline TV.

Ted Finch = 91
06/02/04 +81, which is one for every email he had to delete.
20/01/04 +10 for sussing a Gerry Anderson connection to CE's DJ name when aged 11, and for suggesting it was 'Jerry "Twiggy" Jupiter'.

Dermott Young = 80
14/02/04 +50 for an anoraky joke about turning a radio on that Frank(ee) liked. 29/01/04 +30 for talking about a ship broadcasting anti-Government propaganda as Radio 'You have nothing to Lose but your Chains'.

John Knight = 60
03/05/05 +50 from that kind man Eric for taking flack.
03/04/04 +10 just because he should.

Jan = 50
04/05/04 +50 for the interesting post on Magic/Scary Guy.

Linda = 50
04/05/04 +50 for answering the question about the "'Anti-Ad', the remote controlled radio ad zapper in 1930, why did it never catch on?" with "..because nobody knew about it...was it advertised? ;-) "

Richard Sharpe = 50
27/02/04 +50 because he had an apology from CE about something.

Nick Artis = 50
28/03/04 +50 for keeping his cool and never taking things personally.

Steve Conway = 50
09/05/04 +25 for having been one of the last men on the Ross when it was still at sea. 03/04/04 +12.5 for "I learned a long time ago that sticking my sensitive bits into a food blender which has everyone's fingers on the 'ON' button ends in a bloody mess". 03/04/04 +12.5 for having a brain and being the first person to introduce a 'house' record into the 'A-list' on Caroline.

MicCoren = 50
09/05/04 +25 for doing an impression of another correspondent on this list asking about strange signals on certain frequencies and spreading rumours – although he denies it 28/03/04 +25 for making me (Frankee) smile with his Beatloid bible quotation ("Oh yeah of little faith").

Alby Ridge = 41
09/05/05 +20 for considering himself to be best git
09/05/04 +10 for talking about Dave Miller's dangling carrots
03/04/04 +10 for showing us a website tracking vessels – only as it might stop some claiming there’s a vessel where it isn’t. (Sorry I think marine industry stuff is about as anoraky as some think my modern anorak stuff is – Eric.) 20/01/04 +1 for making a joke about 'glowing' reports about RF 'radiation'.

Graham Jones = 40
09/05/04 -20 for dissing the great Tony
04/05/04 + 10 for knowing how to make a washed-up old has-been feel good. 22/02/04 + 50 for saying he'd go out and work on a new offshore radio station.

Alfie Noakes = 36
27/02/04 +25 for daring to say something that might have rendered him to abuse. 24/01/04 +1 for pointing out that the point of a boat is the bit at the opposite end to the stern. 23/01/04 +10 for daring to argue with Sir, using a very long sentence.

Roy Litchfield = 30
03/04/04 +30 for trying to introduce group hugs in cyberspace.

Classic Rock = 25
11/02/04 +25 for saying Anorak Nation is actually very addictive and suspecting that underneath it all there is a bit of tongue in cheek and a fair bit of humour.

Stewart Ross = 20
09/05/04 +10 for being true to his pirate roots and saying he'd never report any pirate station 03/04/04 +10 for office humour.

Warren Sda698 = 20
09/05/04 +20 for mentioning Tony's 12 incher

Oscar Radio Skeleton = 20
09/05/04 +10 for suggesting a novel way to reduce house prices (ie ban credit) 20/01/04 +10 for suggesting that CE's DJ name aged 11 was Parker Hood.

Tony Wylie = 10
03/04/04 +10 for a good anorak site.

Terry Hurst = 10
03/04/04 +10 because he should.

Steve Sanford = 10
03/04/04 +10 for being understanding.

David Robinson = 10
23/02/04 +10 for mentioning that an offshore radio station could broadcast a documentary about offshore radio without using the word 'scuppered'.

Tim Scrimshaw = 10
17/02/04 +10 for remembering having eaten 'apfelmousse'.

Jonathan Hall of Fame = 10
20/01/04 +10 for his interesting memories of Radio City.

Steve Pragnell = 10
20/01/04 +10 for his interesting memories of Falkland's Radio.

What a Guy = 10
20/01/04 +10 for asking a good question about Tom Browne (Radio 1 Top 40).

Geoff Toon = 10
05/02/04 +10 for making a joke about who was in the car park thrashing the moderators.

Patrick5 = 2
09/02/04 +2 for saying the time pips gave him the pip.

Williammwrmnn = 2
02/02/04 +2 for driving to the studio in the middle of the night to reset Myriad 'cos the PC hadn't set it right.

Housepoint Monitors
A Housepoint Monitor can only be a Housepoint Monitor once every 6 weeks. They get put on the list on a first come first on basis by declaring their interest in being a Housepoint Monitor.

The Housepoint Monitor has a target of around 500 housepoints to allocate to other contributors as they see fit at random times during that week. They can give them all to one person, or spread them amongst many people, including themselves. It's up to them, and their decision is final.

They send them to ..., and then a kind Moderator will transpose the housepoint allocations onto the main list.

HM Duties, changing at 23:59 on Sunday evenings:
17/05/04 to 23/05/04 Nick Artis
10/05/04 to 16/05/04 Alby Ridge
03/05/04 to 09/05/04 Geoff Rogers
26/04/04 to 02/05/05 Steve Conway
19/04/04 to 25/04/04 Nicholas Mead
12/04/04 to 18/04/04 Roy Litchfield
05/04/04 to 11/04/04 Roy Litchfield
29/04/04 to 04/04/04 Eric Wiltsher
22/04/04 to 28/03/04 Frank(ee)