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PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | THEMES | LINKS TO THIS CONTEST | WINNER | LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later) |
March 14, 1993 | 2 | WRITE A MOTTO. WIN A MONSTROSITY. | Maryland needs a new motto, a multi-purpose slogan suitable for placement on a state seal or a license plate. Something grand, something that embodies the full bodacious majesty of the state. | SLO POL | Text file | Contest image | "Oslo" | Text file | Contest image |
September 19, 1993 | 29 | AD NAUSEAM | Come up with an unfortunate slogan for any real product, service, or organization. | SLO | Text file | Contest image | ||
September 1, 1996 | 181 | YOU CAN TAKE IT TO DEBUNK | Take a common slogan or saying and prove it wrong with at least one example. | SLO | Text file | Contest image | ||
August 17, 1997 | 231 | GIVING QUARTER | Suggest a motto for the "tails" side of any of the state-themed quarters. | SLO | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
July 22, 2001 | 411 (LXXVIII) | X's and Oaths | Take any oath, pledge, declaration or slogan and update it. | SLO | Text file | Contest image | ||
May 18, 2003 | 506 | The Battle of All Mottoes | Provide a slogan for any federal department agency, department, office, etc. | SLO | Text file | Contest image | ||
May 23, 2004 | 559 | Your Slogan Here | Come up with a clever slogan or sign for a business. | SLO BUS | Text file | ||
December 11, 2005 | 640 | Whassa Motto Wid You? | Give us a slogan or motto for any of the states, the District or the U.S. Territories. | SLO POL | Text file | ||
December 29, 2007 | 746 | We Err The World | Give us a motto or short slogan for any country in the world. | SLO POL | Text file | Post e-version | ||
July 4, 2009 | 824 | Jestinations | Give us a slogan for any city or town. | SLO POL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
March 13, 2011 | 910 | Your ad here | Slightly alter an advertising slogan so that someone else could use it. | SLO BUS | Text file | Post e-version | ||
March 25, 2012 | 964 | The Grossery Bag? | Suggest a design and/or slogan to go on the side of the ardently desired Style Invitational Loser Bag. | SLO STY | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
October 28, 2012 | 994 | Stick it to us | Suggest a slogan for one of our two new honorable-mention Loser Magnets for 2012-2013. | SLO STY | Text file | Post e-version | ||
December 30, 2012 | 1003 | Just do it | Use a well-known advertising slogan for a different company, organization or product to humorous effect. | SLO BUS POL | Text file | Post e-version | ||
February 15, 2015 | 1111 | When you riff upon a store | Use a wordplay on a song title as a name or slogan for a real or imagined business. (Conversational text) | WOR BUS SLO | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
April 30, 2017 | 1225 | The Ideas of March | Suggest a march for some group or field, along with one or more slogans. (You might also, or instead, comment on the march with some pertinent wordplay.) | SLO | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
February 18, 2018 | 1267 | Jingle bungle | Suggest an ill-advised spokesman (dead or alive, or fictional), along with a humorously noooo slogan or jingle. (Conversational text) | SLO | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | John McCooey | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version |
July 19, 2020 | 1393 | Second chance (acned conches?) for anagrams | Describe any of the provided anagram businesses, or offer its slogan. (Conversational text) | ANA BUS SLO | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
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