TIME Magazine:

Manic Thread Fans Demand 'Man of Year' Status for Internet Unkinown!

" Our editorial offices have been deluged with letters as our annual "Person of the Year" Award deadline draws closer. Our email inboxes are so full our IT personnel are working double-shifts to prevent the servers from crashing. Our Facebook, Jott, Twitter, and MySpace pages are swamped by frenzied demands. Not since Elvis hot Ed Sullivan has mass popular opinion been so heavily leveraged to try and sway our editorial decision making process.

No, it's not a demand for Sarah Palin's pickled feet, nor yet a demand that we stop admiring John McCain's crusty, snowy skullcap.

The subject of this unprecedented and phenomenal fervor is to name as Man of the Year an alleged person. His name (according to some) is Amos--at least that what he says--and he is the web genius behind o series of massively popular forum threads called the "Popular Views" threads, all of which have been established on an obscure internet forum called Mudcat. The threads have proven so insanely popular that te site is threatening to banish the alleged Amos for overwhelming their servers as well.

All this would be well and good except for the strange fact that some people believe AMos is not a normal citizen at all, but a Bigfoot from the snowy mountains of Nepal, living in exile in a rundown 19th century British army barracks deep in the interior of India, where he allegedly composes threads and studies Kipling on a wireless laptop. ANother contingent insists he is the anti-Palin, an inspired Esquimeau warrior from just past the Arctic circle determined to fo something effective about the horrific potentials of the current aspirations of the Republican party, a lonely man tucked into a far-away igloo who only wants to defend his people and his land from the invasions of the wrinkled old white people and their moose-hunting doppelganger5s.

Whoever he or she is (some say she is a young New Orleans debutante who got bored with the ruffles and white gloves of high society and decided to do somethign menaingful with her life) this "Amos" character has caused the biggest uproar of general public approbation this office has ever seen...according to some experts he or she has single-handedly tilted the scales of public opinion irrever4sibly in favor of Candidate Obama...it is a phenomenon of telling and unheard of proportions."