And the winner is...
Category: Navel Gazing...
Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 at 09:43 PM [GMT-6]

The voting to pick the Gazette's new tagline for the next year has ended and the results are definitive, if somewhat surprising:

Screenshot of voting results

The winning entry, submitted by Clarence Bowles who blogs from Kentucky via the creatively-named Can You Hear Me Now? won the contest by 13 votes, with the margin of victory coming relatively near the end of the voting period. Ironically, Clarence himself agreed with my suggestion that someone might be stuffing the ballot box, and even more ironically, Clarence himself implied that he would never have picked this method for choosing a tagline for his blog, and most ironic of all, Clarence didn't even think his entry was the best of the finalists. However, I think Clarence will also agree that he takes these things more seriously than me, and I don't have any heartburn accepting the results of the process that I set up.

So, congratulations to Clarence (and he'll get some kind of special link for 12 months in the Gazette's new design when it's finalized), and many thanks to all of you who played along as submitters, judges, and voters. I enjoyed the process, and I hope you had fun with it as well.

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Comments

Why didn't mine win??

I forgot, did I even submit one?

Posted by: Wallace-Midland, Texas at October 1, 2006 10:38 PM

Ok...so the tagline after this one needs to be: "Now with complimentary defibrulators."

Cause your heart is stinging....

Get it?

Ok, maybe not.

Posted by: beth at October 2, 2006 07:05 AM

Congrats to Clarence!

It was fun, and thanks for trusting your readers for your new tagline, Eric. Brave soul.

And like the ever faithful Horton (with a twist):

"I mean't what I said, I said what I meant ...
A FIREANT'S faithful, one hundred per cent"

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at October 2, 2006 10:03 AM

Well the baby squirrel one cracked me up.
Clarence's got me hysterical - a well deserved win I'd say. I heart ballot stuffers.

Posted by: Catez at October 2, 2006 12:01 PM

Wallace, you submitted one about some Beatle's record. I didn't even know you could get negative votes, but don't let that keep you from trying again...someday...in the far, far distant future...

Beth, that's a great add-on. I may have to see if Clarence agrees. Although, I'd probably have to go with something like "defib optional" otherwise someone might, you know, actually expect me to give them a shock to the chestal region.

CP, the fun was in the danger. ;-)

Catez, Rachel tells me that you don't have squirrels in NZ, which is a crying shame. But it sounds like you DO have ballot stuffers, so I guess it's a wash.

Posted by: Eric at October 2, 2006 07:08 PM

Wow, I really tight race. Any idea what percentage of the cemetery vote the winning entry got?

Posted by: John Peter Smith at October 2, 2006 07:52 PM

Nah. I don't know if the polling software allows me to track such things, but I also don't care enough to find out.

Posted by: Eric at October 2, 2006 08:14 PM

Excellent choice, everyone!

I'm just glad it's not in Latin.

Posted by: Denise at October 4, 2006 07:47 AM
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