The Golden Benny Awards ~ a selection of the best isms in our database

The Golden Benny Award
Awarded monthly following a vote by ISMS members

Month#ismAuthor of source
May1503 Penny says it's urgent. She wants it S.A.A.P. Jane Harriman
April 20081486 So, the final score is 3-1. But 3-1 is not a reflection of the final score.Radio Newcastle sports reporter
March1495 This steam cleaner will get into all the little crooks and all the little nannies. Demonstrator on Idealworld TV
February1490Tony likes to make things secure. He screws everything up.Debra Canning
January1487Rail travel is an area where we have established a track record over a number of years.National Express East Coast
December1482From now on I'm going to keep a firm eye on him!Peggy Mitchell (Eastenders)
November1461She's the head poncho!Fievel
October1450It's a case of don't shoot me, I'm only the piano playerFievel
September1428Everything in the henhouse was fine until a double-edged sword came flying in.Fievel
August1377I was made the escaping goat for that mistakeBaz Cox
July1390I'm actually dictating the letter as we speak ...Baz Cox
June1328She's just like her mum; she's a cardboard copyLindy Lewis
May1373The Project Definition Document (PID) ...Durham IA Service
April 20071372Caution soup may become hot on heating!ASDA - soup label
March1371If people are off sick then we will have to step into the brink!Debra Canning
February1207It looks like something neither you or I have seen land on Mars since 1952.Fievel
January1367It's a bit of a loose cannonball in my mind at the momentDebra Canning
November1360Question marks will have to be asked about that performanceGary Bennet (SAFC)
October1334I've got given a white cat ..... it was as deaf as a dodo!Fievel

September

1327

There’s something wrong but I can’t quite put my head on it!

Liddy Lewis

August

1310

They had everything at their reception, it was all whistles and flutes.

Fievel

July

1263

It seems like a renegade step

Debra Canning

June

1247

I was Bismarked below the waterline ... It was a whole flotilla of cannonballs

Fievel

May

1198

Since our last match we have remained unbeaten!

Iain Dowie

April 2006

1236

They’re proceeding at a slug’s pace!

Fievel

March

1242

I can't be expected to pull a lawyer out of a rabbit!

John Vercoe

February

1247

Q: name the only English league soccer team to start with five consonants! A: AEIOU united?

James Munden

January

1243

It’s a moving goal post feast!

John Vercoe

December

1122

Honestly, some people couldn’t organise a pee-up in a brothel!

Fievel

November

1184

Braille, that’s so the deaf can read!

Stephen Graham

October

1193

Well that 1-0 win got us a foot in the hat for Saturday’s draw!

Gary Bennett

September

1185

I'm shattered today, I was aroused last night by boisterous neighbours

Ruth

August

1179

That dog's as mad as a hatter from planet cuckoo land.

Fievel

July

1139

How old was Dawn's baby when it was born?

Joanne McDonnagh

June

1136

I've been on Friend's Reinvented

Fievel

May

1125

Just look at that dog, it's full of the beans of Spring!

Brenda

April 2005

1108

I'm not worried about market testing. We're hands and knees above the firms!

Ray Morris

March

1078

Then, woe & betide, this happens!

Neil Warnock

February

1055

Let's look at the annual tasks that we do every year!

Martin Green

January

1037

I couldn't seem to make head nor sense of it!

Fievel

December

959

Take that advice with a dose of salts

Sandy McGivern

November

991

I'm easy-easy-over like a boiled egg!

Fievel

October

964

It wasn't the last time, it was the time after that!

Will Greenwood

September

902

He went off like a bag of prawns in the midday sun

Will Greenwood

August

483

Make sure every stone is unturned

Diane Callagher

July

922

Zwei grand bier, sil vous plait

Chris Keylock

June

906

They've shot the hand that laid the golden goose

George Reynolds

May

901

I had them eating putty out of my hands

Joe Papworth

April 2004

903

Surgeon suspended over a bowl of soup!

GMTV News

March

847

I won't be shoe-horned into a cul-de-sac

Fievel

February

848

That's just oil under the troubled bridge

Geoff Norris

January

15

We were up to the kneeballs in snow

The ISMS President

December

274

He was getting a major share of the lion's cake

Phil Carruthers

November

793

It's as dead as a nit!

David Prestwich

October

38

Have you got the Z to Y street guide?

The ISMS President

September

624

It's a plain clothes police car

Peter Morgan's wife

August

681

She can't be a spinster, she's never been married

Tim

July

693

I wouldn't fancy a motorbike, but I wouldn't mind a sidecar

Tim

June

512

The sun sets over that hill every morning

Lady on BBC2 TV

May

488

 While you're working, try to remember what we talked about tomorrow (he meant yesterday)

Russ Pottinger

April 2003

174

 I'm better than any one of them put together

The ISMS President

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