Aug 04 2008
Contest #6: Poseidon for President
This week at MM we want to get political. We could get involved with the whole McCain vs Obama shebang, but it seemed a little pedestrian for us. We like to take an ordinary idea and perform our patented idea-alchemy on it. We started thinking; why restrict ourselves to mortal candidates?
This week’s contest is to imagine the deity of your choice running for office and invent their campaign slogan. We were mainly thinking of presidential campaigns when we thought up this contest, but if you want to write a slogan involving Poseidon running for County Sheriff, so be it; any publicly elected office will do.
As far as deities go, we have two rules. The first is that, because this is a merch contest, you can’t use any trademarked deities (sorry Cthulhu supporters). The second rule is that your deity must be part of a pantheon; that means we’re talking Greek, Norse, Egyptian, etc. (Wikipedia has a very helpful list of pantheons)
This week’s prize is a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate and a $15 gift certificate to the Mental Magma online store (launching later this week). The winning answer will be the entry voted most clever or funny by the MM users. In addition, any entry we choose to make into a real item (like a t-shirt) will earn its creator $1 for each item bought during the first month it’s available. All entries are eligible to be made into merch, not just the contest winners.
You can enter the contest by leaving your answer in the contest entries section. By leaving an entry, you are agreeing to the contest rules and terms.
Photo by Flickr user dunechaser
Contest Summary:
What you have to do: Come up with a campaign slogan for the deity of your choice.
How to enter: Write your answer in the Contest Entries section.
Deadline: Friday, August 8th at 5pm EST
Prize: A $25 Amazon.com gift certificate & $15 Mental Magma Online Store gift certificate.
Announcement: This contest is closed. Feel free to continue to leave your answers here, but you’ll be doing so strictly for our edification. Why don’t you check out the latest update or contest?
August 4th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Water Is The New Oil
Vote For Anahita For President
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Nietsche Pascal reply on August 4th, 2008 11:15 am:
IngoShoe,
Your entry is so clever, but the perspicacity of your entry cannot be appreciated unless the reader knows that “Anahita” is the Goddess of water and oceans in Persian mythology–
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IngShoe reply on August 4th, 2008 7:56 pm:
Thank you for pointing that out! :-)
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August 4th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Vote for Yahweh,
The caring god!
(or he will kill you)
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Gabriel reply on August 4th, 2008 7:13 am:
Sorry Tiago, Yahweh breaks our rule #2 of gods this week (not pantheistic, see post).
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Mrs. Sara reply on August 4th, 2008 9:45 am:
Tiago, you got a laugh out of me!
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August 4th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Vote for Vishnu, or Shiva will win!
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tyson22 reply on August 13th, 2008 8:39 pm:
whos that
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August 4th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Take the gun, leave the cannoli!
Mars for Secretary of Defense
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Dang, didn’t think that one through. Secretary of Defense isn’t an elected office. Let me amend:
Take the gun, leave the cannoli!
Mars for Clay County Sheriff.
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Vote HERMES for President: HE ALWAYS DELIVERS!
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August 4th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Vote Eros for President and return to the days of “Speak softly and carry a big stick!”
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August 4th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Bacchus for President: He’s not as think as you drunk he is.
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August 4th, 2008 at 11:12 am
LIVE FREE or AT LEAST DRUNK!
BACCHUS for PRESDIENT!
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August 4th, 2008 at 11:13 am
VOTE HADES!
or you may end up somewhere very HOT!
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August 4th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Help put the Vice back in Vice President — Vote for Kaikias,
the Greek Spirit of Vice.
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August 4th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Vote for Chalmecatecuchtlz for President, god of sacrifice,
because if You Can’t Pronounce it, I couldn’t have committed it.
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August 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Vote Prometheus!
He’ll give his liver for you!
(several times actually and with excruciating pain)
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August 4th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…I’ll electrocute your ass.”
Thor for President!
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August 4th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
HEPHAESTUS: Vote for me or I will make your cell phone explode!
(God of technology)
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August 4th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
When life gives you lemons, MAKE THE SEAS RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF
YOUR ENEMIES.
Vote for Ares - God of War!
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Mrs. Sara reply on August 4th, 2008 3:10 pm:
NICE!
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tyson22 reply on August 13th, 2008 8:40 pm:
ahhh
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August 4th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Vote for Chronos or you will be late for EVERYTHING!
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August 4th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Vote for Selene or you can bend over and kiss your moon goodbye!
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August 4th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Vote for COALEMUS and there will be a chicken in every car.
(COALEMUS, the Greek God of Stupidity.)
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August 4th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
You will vote for Hypnos … You will vote for Hypnos …
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August 4th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Vote Hades for President,
“Or Hell will break loose!”
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August 5th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Vote for Eros
“You’re Gonna Love Me!”
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August 5th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Vote for ENKI for president. He will warn mankind if another Great Flood
is imminent and if we fail to heed his warning and man is wiped out,he
and his sister will just create man all over again. Match that,
annointed one and P.O.W. man.
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August 5th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Vote for URANUS!! EVERYBODY Wins!!
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August 5th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
(Aeolus, God of the winds)
Vote for Aeolus for President or he will blow your ass to Kansas!
(If you already live in Kansas He’ll just blow you.)
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August 5th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Vote for Quetzalcoatl for President!
Because it will be fun to say President Quetzalcoatl.
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August 5th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Vote for the FATES for President(s): For the sake of our futures!
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August 5th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Vote Cyclops for President!
He’s got his eye on the issues that matter.
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August 5th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Zeus For President!
Why settle for anything less?
(the king of the gods)
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August 6th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Vote Norns for Congress! Because really, do you have any other choice?
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August 6th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Here is Brahma the Hindu God who created the Universe running for the Presidentials:
Brahma, the creator of the universe,
urges you all in this terse,
vote me one, vote me all,
as I cannot see your fall.
I have created, therefore I can save,
I know for what all you crave!!
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August 6th, 2008 at 11:56 am
“A new day is dawning. Eos for President.”
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August 6th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Vulcan for Sheriff
“I can make bullets!”
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August 7th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
vote ATLAS for pres. or let your sky fall.
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richard 55 reply on August 7th, 2008 6:53 pm:
GO ATLAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LAUREN456 reply on August 7th, 2008 7:08 pm:
ATLAS IS SO STRONG IT’S COOL
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August 7th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
TANTALUS FOR GOVENER HE WON’T EAT OR DRINK TIL HE WINS YOUR VOTE
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August 7th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
a vote for Apollo is a vote for a sunny new day but don’t vote Apollo and he’ll tourch your town
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August 8th, 2008 at 10:06 am
HERMES FOR PRESIDENT!
“Hey, at least I ADMIT that I’m a crook!”
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August 8th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Artemis for President!
*This message paid for by the NRA.*
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August 8th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Medusa or bust!
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August 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Vote for ATHENA she has the wisdom to run this contry.
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August 8th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
CIRCE FOR PRES. OR SHE WILL TURN ALL YOU MEN TO PIGS!!!
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August 8th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
MINOS judge of the dead for JUDGE of people that are alive
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Gabriel reply on August 8th, 2008 4:42 pm:
Nice
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August 8th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
poseidon for pres. or he will take back the horse
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August 10th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
this stinks being the only ones here huh?
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August 10th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
yah
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August 26th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
tell me about it man
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