In response to (no discernible) popular demand, Ned has decided to add regular Contempt Citations to his (and Q A Wagstaff, FRS's) Halfbright Fellowships, to be awarded for an Act of Excessive Stupidity or Egregious Mauling of the English Language.
Ned's first trial CC goes to the unnamed news summary writer who reported that "a British fisherman has joined the select list who can claim to have caught a tigerfish, the most dangerous fish in the ocean." Ned would point out with contempt that anyone can CLAIM to have caught one, just as anyone can claim to be a witch, to be The Second Coming of George Washington, or to have been abducted and experimented on by aliens.
Congratulations to our lucky winner!
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