Contests Galore!

(Volume VI, No. 1 -- Spring 2003)

There’s no excuse for bad dental hygiene, given the number of ways you can earn the coveted Phil on Hol Dental Kare Kit in this issue! Here’s a summary:

• Philosopher Laureate
  This issue features the first round of responses to the question "What would a philosopher laureate do?" first posed in Volume V, Number 4. But it’s not too late to submit your answer to the question! Follow this link to read the published responses, and get inspired to write your own.

• Forty-Two
  Help us create a Calendar of Years.

• Water Contest!
  So we all know that these bottled water brands, and their accompanying advertising tag lines, are just plain silly. There’s one, for instance, that promises it will work "for all your hydration needs." Barb ("I’ll have the house water") the Brief suggests a PonH contest to provide philosophical names for this ubiquitous spring water. Extra points for an ad line that uses a 5 syllable word from the annals of epistiwhateveryoucallit..... TDZ: Thus Drank Zarathrustra.

• Font Contest
  (Winter 2003-2004 update: We have a winner, but aren't revealing the answers here just so you can continue surfing your nostalgia-laden brain cells.)
  The print edition of this issue features, on page two, a font that is named "Partridge," in honor of that famous (but fictional) singing family, The Partridge Family, whose 1970’s television show made liberal use of the aforementioned font in its titles. The prize for naming that font went unclaimed, so we’re hosting a new contest:
  Name the real-life singing family after which the Partridge Family was modeled, and win the Dental Kare Kit. Name one of their songs and we’ll throw in a second Kit.