Katie and I came up with these:

• Death Crab for Cutie
• Chum-bawamba
• Flounders of Wayne
• Vienna Tang
• Betta than Ezra
• Dace of Base (or Ace of Bass)

Some favorites from the event:

• beano76: Sushi and the Banshees
• shinkaide: Squid Vicious
• MisterElGuapo: No Trout
• ebrown2112: Fleetwood Mackerel
• Caissie: Sharkira
• dominichamon: Kylie Minnow
• ethanwc: Crash Test Guppies
• ThisModernDeath: Ling Cod Park
• earlkabong: Herman’s Hermit Crabs
• znmeb: Pike and Tuna Turner
• AndyJukes: Smelton John
• KenPlume: Mackerel Jackson
• notgiamatti: Jefferson Starfish

It looks like it’s still going on if you’re in the mood for fish puns.

I came up with a few:

• Less Miserable (admittedly this one’s a gimme) #
• Spring Just-a-few-more-minutes-before-I-wake-up. #
• The Importance of being Ernie. #
• Eleven Mildly-Annoyed Guys #
• The Prince and I #
• The Rose Temporary Tattoo #

• The Zodiac is the set of constellations through which the sun, moon and planets appear to move when seen from Earth. #
• In a dark sky, away from light pollution, you can sometimes see Zodiacal light after the sun has set. #
• Due to cycles in Earth's orbit, the present-day constellations of the zodiac no longer line up with those used by astrology. #
• In a REALLY dark sky, you can see the Gegenshein: sunlight reflecting off of interplanetary dust. #

• “Damn it, dear, I’m a doctor, not a bricklayer!”
• “Damn the torpedoes, dear. Full speed ahead!”
• “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes, dears.”
• “Hello, dear. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
• “I aim to misbehave, dear.”
• “I came, I saw, I conquered, dear.”
• “Kneel before Zod, dear.”
• “Madness? This is Sparta, dear!” ← (this one’s my favorite)
• “More weight, dear.”
• “Something wicked this way comes, dear.”
• “The same thing we do every night, dear: Try to take over the world!”
• “Why so serious, dear?”
• “Yippee-ki-yay, dear.”
• “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, dear?”

Some of my contributions:

• Jefferson X-Wing (I figured it sounded better than Jefferson Death Starship, though someone later suggested Jefferson Star Destroyer, which is better.) #
• Obi-Wan Folds Five (This one actually got a retweet!) #
• Red Five for Fighting #

And Katie’s (Posted on my account because hers isn’t publicly visible):

• Snowspeeder Patrol #
• Augustanakin #
• Seven Mary 3PO #

There’s a ton of entries out there, and it’s still going. Some of my favoirites others have posted:

• pipboy2009: Naboo Fighters #
• DevDell: The Qui-Gon Jinn Blossoms #
• treelobsters: Alderaan Deraan #
• wk_marshall: Peter, Paul, and Mara Jade #

• New Dork Stories #
• Annie Get Your Gum #
• Fight Clue #
• There should be an Oz sequel called All About Ev. #
• Reaching a bit, but Key D’argo (Farscape) #
• Ok, I keep coming up with movie titles for and finding that someone else has already done them. Time for bed I think. #
• Okay, one more. There are those who call it…The Land Before Tim. #

• Shaka Sulu #
• Schindler’s Arcology #
• Obi-Wan Hur #
• Droids on the Side #
• Shuttlecraft 54, Where Are You? #

• Total Flunacy #
• OMGWTFBBFlu!! (Though I have to admit #hamthrax is a good one) #
• Looks like Hamthrax has been chosen by the Masters of the Fluniverse #

It’s basically a chain letter or tagging meme, in the form of an award.

I was curious as to where the meme actually came from, and did some digging. I didn’t find much of anything conclusive, but I did find some interesting things:

• “Premio Dardo” means “Dart Award” in Spanish, which fits with the “I Entrega de Premios Dardo 2008″ text. (This means that “Premio Dardo Award” is kind of like “La Brea Tar Pits” in that it literally means “Dart Award Award.”)
• The oldest post I could find in English was October 29, 2008
• Looking up the Spanish phrase from the image, I was able to trace it as far back as February 2008 on Spanish-language blogs.
• There are at least two versions of the image: One large, with text in the empty space at the lower left. The other small, with a black border and text in the border like the much-parodied motivational posters, and labeled as “Premio Dardos.”
• There are at least two different descriptions of the award in English:
  

  This award acknowledges the values that every blogger shows in his or her effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values every day.

  and

  The PREMIO DARDO is designed to recognize unique voices and visions on the Web as well as to promote fraternization amongst bloggers of all sorts.

• The number of blogs you’re expected to pass along the award to is variously given as 5, 10, 12, and 15.
• Blogspot’s search doesn’t seem to work.

The text on the oldest version I could find reads:

La I Entrega de Premios Dardo 2008 se abre paso entre un gran elenco de Premios de reconocido prestigio en el mundo de la literatura, y con el reconoce los valores que cada blogger muestra cada día en su empeño por transmitir valores culturales, éticos, literarios, personal, etc.., que en suma, demuestra su creatividad a través su pensamiento vivo que está y permanece, innato entre sus letras, entre sus palabras rotas”. El premio debe acoger en su interior a un mínimo de 15 bloggers

Roughly translated:

The Dart Awards Ceremony I 2008 appears among a large list of prestigious awards in the world of literature, and recognizes the values that each blogger shows each day in their efforts to convey cultural ethical, literary, personal, etc. values… in short, it demonstrates his creativity through his vibrant thoughts, which remain innate within the letters, torn between his words. ” The prize must encompass at least 15 bloggers

I surmise that:

• Somewhere late last year, the meme jumped from Spanish to English, with only a partial translation of the description.
• Somewhere along the line, the description fell off, and someone wrote a new one.
• Many recipients found it hard to choose 15 blogs, and shortened the list. The shorter number got passed along.

I do have to wonder about the branching factor.  Each recipient passes the meme along to 5–15 new recipients, which means that if they react quickly, the number of Premio Dardo recipients will increase dramatically (think Tribbles).  If it started out more than a year ago, it’s had plenty of time to overrun the blogosphere.  I can only assume that a significant fraction of people who receive it just ignore it, producing dead ends on its path.

Or maybe there are just a lot more blogs out there than I think there are.