[Update, April 7: The contest is over and a winner has been announced.] Before I get to the prizes and rules for the Lab's two Bad Name contests, I must make a quick apology to my fellow Marions.
You can also still enter the bad-name contests here at the Lab.
Rudy Giuliani believed it would look bad to contest states he might not win.
Whatever your name is, I welcome comments here about the column here along with entries in the Worst Bad Name contest.
Some entries from Lab readers in the Worst Bad Name Contest: From Carlo: I know three sisters named Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Oxygen.
Every fall, up to 300 Columbia students pack Philolexian's annual Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest to hear original doggerel composed by their classmates that is intended to produce laughter, cringes or sheer disbelief.
Judith Butler, in the essay that won the 1997 Bad Writing Contest, uses account, relations, ways, hegemony, relations, repetition, convergence, rearticulation, question, temporality, thinking, structure, shift, theory, totalities, objects, insights, possibility, structure, conception, hegemony, sites, strategies, rearticulation and power all in a single sentence.
Bad bitch contest you're in 1st place.
The waves were so bad the contest was called off for the day after the heat.
Unfortunately, its argument sounds a lot like conservative philosopher Denis Dutton's "Bad Writing Contest," for which he held up passages from leftist cultural thinkers like Fredric Jameson or Judith Butler to scorn.
