Mock Prizes
Main category: Ironic and humorous awards- Big Brother Awards – To authorities, companies, organizations, and persons that have been acting particularly and consistently to threaten or violate people's privacy, or disclosed people's personal data to third parties
- Bulwer–Lytton Fiction Contest – For composing the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels (English Department of the San Jose State University)
- Darwin Awards – The Darwin Awards "commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives"
- Foot in Mouth Award – For "a baffling comment by a public figure" (Plain English Campaign)
- Golden Raspberry Awards – To the worst in film. Also known as the Razzies (Golden Raspberry Award Foundation)
- Golden Turkey Awards – To films judged as poor in quality, and to directors and actors judged to have created a chronically inept body of work (Michael Medved and Harry Medved)
- Ig Nobel Prize – Awarded annually for ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research (Annals of Improbable Research)
- Bad Sex in Fiction Award – To the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel (Literary Review)
- Naomi Awards – To "outstandingly bad" music acts (Music Choice)
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Famous quotes containing the words mock and/or prizes:
“Wiser far than human seer,
Yellow-breeched philosopher!
Seeing only what is fair,
Sipping only what is sweet,
Thou dost mock at fate and care,
Leave the chaff, and take the wheat,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“She prizes not such trifles as these are.
The gifts she looks from me are packed and locked
Up in my heart, which I have given already,
But not delivered.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)