Where do the Smithees go from here?
That’s anybody’s guess. I suppose it was rather ambitious of us, at the genesis of the MegaMetaSmithee idea, even to consider that we’d still be doing this sort of thing for at least five years. Now Greg is even talking of doing the MegaMetaMegaMetaSmithees (or whatever we’ll end up calling them) for our Tarnished Silver Anniversary at Year 27, when the winners of the last five MegaMetaSmithees can go head-to-head. (We’ve since refilled Greg’s prescription, but nonetheless, the idea slipped out and there’s not a thing we can do about it now.) It is our hope that we’ll be around that long, and longer, steadily gaining in fame, fortune and power, until we can show all those who laughed at us, all those who scorned us. Yes, they’ll be sorry–we will crush them–we wil–*ahem*. Pardon me. Will we be around that long? Only time will tell. I suppose if we do insist on doing this year after year, we may gain some measure of notoriety, if only on the principle that if something hangs around lo