leaping bananas
I did get shortlisted for the mock turner prize run by aunty beeb in 2005 and indeed came 3rd even though they named it 'leaping bananas' instead of bananafish.

I felt so proud of myself although actually now I go back to look at it they're mostly pretty poor and the ranking seems utterly irrelevant - The winner was a bit of scrunched up foil and the awesome baby made of dummies came 6th
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4469468.stm
(teasus likes tea, Wed 4 May 2011, 16:42, 2 replies)

Hmm, looks like the dummy of dummies came in a close second.
The numbered pictures are just the short list and the results are in the box to the right.

Sorry to break it to you - those rotters at the beeb mislabelling your entry must be why it came in fourth. Did you name it after the JD Salinger story?
( Pig Bodine., Wed 4 May 2011, 17:12, closed)

oh yes I see what you mean. Only fourth eh.
Didn't know of the JD Salinger story before ... just looked it up, and saw my image used to illustrate it on some random persons blog. I might just read it some time as I have a bit of a thing for short stories and the only time I ever read any of his stuff was the essential 'catcher in the rye' for GCSE english

At least the dummies did better than I thought
(teasus likes tea, Wed 4 May 2011, 20:20, closed)