Richard Pembroke Pretentious Pom of the Year

Outshone and outswanked the rhetorical pomp of Rowan Quinn, co-star of "Pitifully attempting to compensate for my Inferiority complex," spent more time on the Webster Dictionary and Babel-fish translations sites than he did anywhere else, his unnecessary use of florid language and affected cliches in place of straightforward comment augmented his sad attempts at passing himself off as a French soldier; at one time battling rebels on the Ivory Coast; swaying from elementary English to advanced level, invariably overblown, at times spilling Babel-fish French onto a forum which, in reality, was visited by no one but Brits, Saffas and Australasians (incl. expats). But who could forget that sweeping quotation from the "Homer Quotations" site, so heroically delivered from the summit of high-adrenaline, the valiant Hercules, vanquisher of the dastardly Marco by threatening to hack his email address (in big red letters) and invoking the wrath of the site management and Gods in the process?! (Almost as daunting as his brave performance on the Planet Rugby forum of repeatedly posting what he believed to be a personal telephone number). Not merely a star in this category, but a veritable Super Nova.