Flosscars 2005

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Nominees :

• Gemunu Cooray (Exeter) for Scarlet Pimpernel (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Laurie Penny (Wadham) for Jack (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Louise Sherlock (St John's) for Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales)

Winner : Tom for Paddy (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Nominees :

• Louise Sherlock (St John's) for Princess Tamara (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Sal for Anna Key (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Dom Mattos (STB) for Wife of Bath/Alisoun (The Canterbury Tales)

Winner : Nat Mills (St Hilda's) for Margerite (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Nominees :

• Matthew Robinson (Wadham) for Desgas (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Harry Ullman (Wadham) and Duncan Coutts (Worcester) for the Giant (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Winner : Emma for Chauvelin (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Nominees :

• Nat Mills (St Hilda's) for Margerite (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Sophie for Queen (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Ruth for the Fairy (The Canterbury Tales)

Winner : Hannah Veale (St. Hilda's) for Dewhurst (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Nominees :

• Dom Mattos (STB) for “Bestiality's really rather bad…” “O, no it isn't!” (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Duncan Coutts (Worcester) for preponderance of cabbage (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Kit for oh, look, my comedy shrub has become a post-box“ (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• C Howdle (Wadham) and Rose for making use of the duplicate prop “Not ze portrait of Marie Antoinette. Hand it over. And ze other one….” (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Winner : Mark Roberts for Moving spotlight gag (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Nominees :

• Duncan Coutts (Worcester) and Harry Ullman (Wadham) for the Giant (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Kit, C Howdle (Wadham) and Rose for Claude/Claudette/Marianne (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Katherine and Helen for Marge and Tina (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Flange and Katherine for Shelly and Vicky (and with Maddi as hens) (The Canterbury Tales)

Winner : Elizabeth Baldwin (Balliol) , Duncan Coutts (Worcester) and Hannah Veale (St. Hilda's) for the Scarlet League (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Nominees :

• Sally for being a creative genius
• Tom and Dom Mattos (STB) for the slosh scene (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Emma and Helen Nightingale (Somerville) for taking relatively large parts in pimpernell while also sitting Mods the next day
• Everyone who performed when nearly hurling

Winner : Hannah Veale (St. Hilda's) for driving oules to schools when we had tutes etc (and getting a speeding ticket)

Nominees :

• Katherine for “Well the problem is we're just not going to have enough hoes!” (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Ben and Hannah Veale (St. Hilda's) for Ben: “Is there lots of space in the back of your car?” Hannah: “I've had 4 men in there” “You must be exhausted!”
• Gemunu Cooray (Exeter) for “I'm not gay!” Pause “It's just a reflex.” (when no one had suggested the contrary)
• Matthew Robinson (Wadham) for “I very nearly fit into Laurie's cupboard.”
• Duncan Coutts (Worcester) for “Oo do I get the bestiality then?”
• Hannah Veale (St. Hilda's) for “What is it about things on sticks behind hedges that's so funny?”
• Dom Mattos (STB) for “I'd like to be mounted on a hovercraft.”

Winner : Gemunu Cooray (Exeter) and Laurie Penny (Wadham) for Gam: “I'm inbred.” Laurie: “Like a Gam sandwich.”

Nominees :

• Cabbages (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• The beanstalk!! (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• It's big and it's green, it's a magic machine… (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• The Leaves to hide behind (The Canterbury Tales)

Winner : The trees we stole from tom's garden and the comedy postbox (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Nominees :

• Tom for being line perfect by about 4th week (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Winner : Kit for learning 1 scene in 20 minutes flat (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Nominees :

• Scarlet league (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Giant costume (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Kit for Knight, complete with real sword, colander helmet, and tinfoil shield (The Canterbury Tales)
• The Chicken Masks (The Canterbury Tales)

Winner : Dom Mattos (STB) for Any of them

Nominees :

• Tea! (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Mme Margot (+ dance) (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Marge and Tina (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• It'll all end in divorce (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Winner : the kingdom is in rack and ruin (duh dum duh dum dum duh!) (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Nominees :

• Katherine for Essex accent (The Canterbury Tales)
• Duncan Coutts (Worcester) for old woman (The Canterbury Tales)

Winner : Gemunu Cooray (Exeter) , Elizabeth Baldwin (Balliol) , Hannah Veale (St. Hilda's) and Duncan Coutts (Worcester) for upper class twit accents (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Nominees :

• Emma (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Nat Mills (St Hilda's) (The Canterbury Tales)
• Kit (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Kit (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Rose and C Howdle (Wadham) for actually having real French accents (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Winner : Gemunu Cooray (Exeter) for French and impersonating a lay-deee! what joy! (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Nominees :

• Tom for Paddy (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Tom for Claude (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Winner : Tom for Lifetime achievement in the field of accents

Nominees :

• Tom for “Flora!” when laurie said “it's daisy…the cow!” (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Rabbit in the slosh scene (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Pilgrimage song (The Canterbury Tales)
• Flange for forgetting her lines when the pardoner came on in Canterbury tales and refusing to look at the clipboard because she thought it would look like she'd forgotten to learn her lines, when in fact she was meant to be looking at the clipboard… (The Canterbury Tales)

Winner : Gemunu Cooray (Exeter) for “I'm finish so I will go first” (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Nominees :

• Gemunu Cooray (Exeter) for Pimpernel (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Laurie Penny (Wadham) for Jack
• Duncan Coutts (Worcester) for the withered old woman (The Canterbury Tales)

Winner : Dom Mattos (STB) for All the time

Nominees :

• CULES who joined us (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Dom Mattos (STB) for Being in black tie and very pissed (Jack and the Beanstalk)
• Phil Scott for volunteering to go with the wadham porter when he appeared after pimpernel despite not being at wadham. or oxford… (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Laurie Penny (Wadham) (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Winner : Whoever came up with the upside-down OULES cocktail

Nominees :

• Rose behind the shrubbery
• Dom Mattos (STB) for “I'll granulate your head in a minute, if I can find it. No, hang on, that's not right” (corpses)
• Everyone for when Joanne wasn't in the right cell and the Scarlet League had to go backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards at the home.
• Harry Ullman (Wadham) for when Duncan was made to drink pure alcohol and almost dropped him (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Winner : Helen and Kat for the Marge and Tina song (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Nominees :

• Sidney the goose
• Monty the horse

Winner : Hannah the polar bear

Nominees :

• Best song
• Best Category
• Best performance at a cast party

Winner : Best dodgy accent of Tom

Nominees :

• Gemunu Cooray (Exeter) for the Scarlet Pimpernel (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Sally for Anna Key (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Winner : Flange for Vicky (The Canterbury Tales)