Contest: Give the Gazette a Tagline
Update: The Tagline contest is now closed, as we await the next step in the interminable process of picking a winner. Many thanks to all who participated. Stay tuned!
We're getting close to rolling out a new design for the Gazette ("close" being a relative term, and in this case roughly equivalent to when scientists speak of the sun being "close" to going supernova), and that new design just screams for a catchy tagline. So I'm sorta hoping you can do my work for me, and come up with a good one.
In order to provide sufficient motivation, we're hereby proposing a modest little contest. If you provide the winning tagline, you'll win Fabulous Prizes, and the quote will appear in the Gazette's header for at least one year. You'll also get a one-year link in the sidebar, extolling your awesome creativity and apparent overabundance of discretionary time.
Contest Rules
- Tagline should be 10 words or less.
- Entries are due via comment or email (info -at- ericsiegmund dot com) on or before September 1, 2006.
- Taglines should be at least vaguely relevant to the Gazette's style (or lack thereof), tone, and content (ha!). Concepts might include references to: Texas, fire ants, Content Free posts, and/or baby squirrels.
- You can enter as often as you wish, or as your pride will allow.
- After September 1, five entries will be selected by a panel of objective, um, panelists. Those five will then be included in an online poll and Gazette readers will have the final say-so in picking the winner.
Fabulous Prizes
The winner will receive a $25 gift certificate from either Amazon.com or the iTunes Music Store, and a Fire Ant Gazette coaster (what can I say? I over-ordered for Blogathon, and I sure don't want them.), along with the aforementioned one year's worth of valuable publicity.
On your mark...get set...
Go!
Oh, and thanks a bunch. All I've been able to come up with so far is "Got Milk?" and I'd swear I've heard that somewhere else.
Update: By the way, just so you won't get your feelings hurt (I know how sensitive you guys can be), I will not be commenting on your suggestions during the duration of the contest. It's not that I don't want to, and I will be reading them all with great interest, but it's probably best that I stay out of it.
What was your old tagline?
Um, I hope I didn't just disqualify myself. 8-}
Posted by: Gwynne at August 9, 2006 04:12 PMBeth, I see I should have added a disclaimer: "The Gazette and its unpaid employees are not liable for any consequences related to working on this while at your office." ;-)
Gwynne, see, that's the problem. We never had one. At one time, I considered using the Preamble to the Constitution, but couldn't fit it into the header. Legibly, anyway.
Posted by: Eric at August 9, 2006 04:20 PM{#of posts} Content Free posts and counting.
Posted by: Jon at August 9, 2006 04:22 PMAlrighty then. How about "We the people, insuring domestic tranquility for our posterity" or some such rehash of the Preamble.
Posted by: Gwynne at August 9, 2006 04:41 PM"Better than being bitten by the real thing."
Posted by: Julie at August 9, 2006 04:54 PM"Providing new Macs to commenters annually, since 2006"
Posted by: Brian at August 9, 2006 05:22 PM"Changing the world one word at a time...oh look, a baby squirrel!"
Posted by: Gwynne at August 9, 2006 05:34 PMContent free baby squirrels bitten by Texas Fire Ants! Film at 11!
Shoot... that's twelve words. Oh well. Julie's is good.
Posted by: Jim at August 9, 2006 06:10 PMThe Kitchen Sink for the Soul.
Posted by: beth at August 9, 2006 07:14 PMThe Fire Ant Gazette - Adventures In Life, Venom, and Song!
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at August 9, 2006 08:30 PMThe Fire Ant Gazette - Fiery Little Bytes Of West Texas Wisdom
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at August 9, 2006 08:41 PMIf Latin was good enough for Gus, it's good enough for the Fire Ant!
The Fire Ant Gazette - Incendia of Vita!
The Fire Ant Gazette - Victus Venomous Vita!
To translate: Incendia of Vita is "The Fire of Life "and Victus Venomous Vita is "Living the Venomous Life"
Don't you roll those eyes at me, either!
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at August 9, 2006 08:50 PM"The Fire Ant Gazette: What results from a million baby squirrells typing on a million Mac Pros."
It may not be clever, but at least it's clunky!
So far I think I'd vote for:
Julie's "Better than being bitten by the real thing"
or CP's "Don't you roll those eyes at me, either!"
I was thinking it needed to be in Latin also (I even went so far as to look up the latin for "baby squirrels"...what did you say about having excess discretionary time on our hands?), so I think CP is onto something. But I also really like "Fiery Little Bytes Of West Texas Wisdom." I'm sure we lose the twist on "bytes" but otherwise, how does this translate into Latin?
The other option is to translate "don't you roll those eyes at me, either!" ;-)
Posted by: Gwynne at August 9, 2006 10:21 PMIgneus parum bytes of occasus texas sapientia
Beautiful! ;-)
Posted by: Gwynne at August 9, 2006 10:30 PMi don't know if mine will count or not, since it has been used before (albeit by me, so i own the rights to it... or to give it away), as my old blog title:
This Side Of Mediocre
i have created a new blog for more ramblings, and it is creatively called: kylelent.com. hmm.
Posted by: kyle at August 10, 2006 02:48 AMSometimes the littlest things in life are the most painful...
Posted by: Kelly at August 10, 2006 08:39 AM"Moving rubber tree plants one byte at a time"
or the longer version (over your word limit)...
"Moving rubber tree plants one byte at a time. (Because who says an ant can't?)"
Posted by: sherry at August 10, 2006 09:15 AMThe Fire Ant Gazette -
Stinging Social Commentary ~ Guaranteed Content Free
The Fire Ant Gazette: We cavort. You insecticide.
Posted by: Bret at August 10, 2006 01:55 PMOne more:
The Fire Ant Gazette: That's going to leave a mark.
Posted by: Bret at August 10, 2006 01:56 PMHow about:
The Fire Ant Gazette: The blog you've been itching for.
Posted by: beth at August 10, 2006 03:22 PMTo follow Pattie's Latin lead:
"In Venom Veritas"
I looked up the Latin word for venom and got back "venenum" so:
"In Venenum Veritas"
But I'm not sure of the case endings here. It might be:
"In Veneno Veritas"
Actually, you know, just never mind. Ignore this one... :)
Posted by: Denise at August 10, 2006 08:12 PMThis is fun, ya'll
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at August 10, 2006 08:51 PMAnd ya'll are easily amused. ;-)
Wonder if the rules permit me to make a suggestion? Let's check...why, yes -- yes, they do.
I sort of like something like:
"Delivering the FDA's RDA of CFP since '002"
Too cryptic? Too inane? Too acronyminous? We'll let the panel decide.
Posted by: Eric at August 10, 2006 09:23 PMHow does this translate into Latin? ;-)
Posted by: Gwynne at August 11, 2006 11:41 AMThen there's: Keeps you itchin' for more.
or
The Herald for the Hive
...yeah, mine are all lame, but it's fun. :)
Posted by: beth at August 11, 2006 03:34 PMAre there any Latin scholars on your panel? If so, kindly disregard this entry.
"Caveat scribit sal Atticus" or,
"Beware the writer's acerbic wit."
How bout 'full of content free goodness and baby squirrels since 2002!'
Posted by: Rach at August 15, 2006 12:47 AM"Inflicting painful welts since 200x....!"
Posted by: Wallace at August 17, 2006 10:19 PM"Batteries not required. 100% content-free"
Or, in made-up Latin :)
"carbo haud necessarius: 100% impleo nullus"
The Fire Ant Gazette - Cycling thru life West Texas style.
Posted by: lyle at August 18, 2006 01:05 PMIn Midland, no one can hear you scream.
Posted by: Bret at August 18, 2006 09:26 PMInflicting bytes since '02
Posted by: Jim at August 27, 2006 09:36 PMThe Fire Ant Gazette: Our Squirrels Are Flatter
Posted by: Denise at August 27, 2006 09:55 PMThis Ant can dance!
or...
Flattened baby squirrels providing content-free posts since 2002
Posted by: Gwynne at August 27, 2006 11:30 PMTaglines are us.
(Save us from having to be imaginative already!)
Posted by: mis_nomer at August 28, 2006 03:15 AMNo crumb too small; no hat too big
Posted by: Clarence at August 28, 2006 11:12 AMWe have sting, zing, wing and fling to confuse everyone.
Posted by: Clarence at August 28, 2006 11:15 AMDeflated squirrels, dogs with feathers, content free between my ears.
Posted by: Clarence at August 28, 2006 11:21 AMContent that crawls up your leg and stings your heart.
Posted by: Clarence at August 28, 2006 11:36 AMNosotros aqui deberemos server
Posted by: Janie at August 30, 2006 07:35 AMJanie...translation? "Server" is throwing me, as far as what it means in espaņol.
Posted by: Eric at August 30, 2006 07:56 AMI probably have it wrong...it might be servir? Or heck, who knows...
"We are here to serve."
That's what y'all do. I hope it's what we all do!
Posted by: Janie at August 30, 2006 08:56 PMOK, servir was what I *thought* you might have in mind, but my Spanish isn't good enough to completely rule out the other word. But that makes more sense now.
Posted by: Eric at August 30, 2006 09:29 PMThe Fire Ant Gazette: neither fire ant nor gazette.
Posted by: Julie at August 31, 2006 03:43 PMAbout the publisher
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Posted by: beth at August 9, 2006 03:53 PM