Reason Weekly Contest: Write a New Warning Label
Last week's winners revealed.


A San Francisco ordinance would require mandatory warnings on sugar-sweetened drinks that say: "WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay." Please come up with the next warning label San Francisco will require on an item—any item.
How to enter: Submissions should be e-mailed to contest@reason.com. Please include your name, city, and state. This week, kindly type "WARNING" in the subject line. Entries are due by 11 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday, Aug. 17. Winners will appear Friday, Aug. 21, right here at Reason.com.
In the case of identical or similar entries, the first one received gets credit. First prize is a one-year digital subscription to Reason magazine, plus bragging rights. While we appreciate kibbitzing in the comments below, you must email your answer to enter the contest. Feel free to enter more than once, and good luck!
And now for the results of last week's contest: In light of the sad and shocking Miss Piggy/Kermit split, we asked you to predict the name of the title of the tell-all one of them will inevitably write.
THE WINNER: "A Pig Under the Blankets" -- Eric Bohlman, Wilmette, IL
SECOND PLACE: "Fozzie Shrugged" -- Fred Cole
THIRD PLACE: "It's Not Easy Being Married" -- Judy Tashbook, Dallas, TX
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"50 Shades of Green" -- Christopher P. Brown, Idlewylde, MD
"Piggy Dearest" -- Andy Johnson, Baton Rouge, LA
"Once You've Gone Amphibian, You Can Go Back" -- Jeff Ford
"Sweet and Sour: My Love and Loss of Miss Piggy" -- Scott McCleneghan, Plano, TX
"Dork, Pork, and Bork: The 40 Year Love Triangle Between Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the Swedish Chef" -- Joshua Trujillo, Chandler, AZ
"This Little Piggy: How I Dumped A Philandering Frog" -- Matthew Givens, Montgomery, AL
"Green Legs and Ham" -- Brian Drolet, Manchester, NH (sent in by many others, too—but later!)
"Green Legs and Spam" -- Jaloo Zelonis, Roberta, GA
"Pig Roast" -- Robert Magee
"Telling Pork Pies: The Dark Side of America's Most Celebrated Swine" -- Nancy McDermott
"A Twisted Tale" -- Bill Fullerton
"He's Not Pig Enough For Me" -- Stephan Vogelmann
"I'm With the Bacon" -- Andy Johnson, Baton Rouge, LA
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WARNING: Inhalation of bottled water can lead to death!
WARNING: Warning label may trigger anxiety.
WARNING: Reading Hit y Run will expose you to unsafe levels of unregulated kinky fuckery.
"WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay."
Drinking beverages with naturally-occurring sugars contributes to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay
Also, most juices - orange juice, grapefruit juice, cranberry juice, etc. - are produced from concentrates, then have sweeteners added to make them palatable. Will Ocean Spray be given a warning label too?
Anybody know where this fad comes from? I.e. why municipal authorities all over the country decided to make sweetened beverages the thing. I mean, if sugar was the target, why not candy? Why not sugar itself? And why sugar as opposed to other caloric anythings?
The Right has big problems with people enjoying sex. The Left has big problems with people enjoying food.
"Fuck off!" - Slavers
No.
WARNING: Reading Books Might Expose You To Triggering Or Socially Harmful Ideas
WARNING: Be Well
WARNING: Drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon might lead to facial hair growth, miserable musical preferences and artisanal mayonnaise.
Drinking Pabst means half off the best slice of pizza Albuquerque has to offer.
WARNING: Uncapping This Soda Causes CO2 To Be Released Into The Atmosphere And Will Kill Us All"
Or:
Warning: Soda Causes Excessive Belching, Releasing Fatal Amounts Oc CO2
Dammit...Of
Warning: No edit button.
The edit button is like reason's lifeguard: none on duty, post at your own risk.
WARNING: DEEP DISH PIZZA MAY NOT ACTUALLY BE PIZZA
WARNING: ALL ASPECTS OF THIS PRODUCT AFFECTED BY CENTRAL PLANNING
WARNING: all aspects of your life are controlled by Central Planning, and any deviations from planning will be punished severely
fixed it for you
Try out these party slogans.
WARNING: Permitting the president wide latitude to conduct kinetic military action is necessary to prevent global violence and instability.
WARNING: Choice and personal autonomy has been shown to cause anxiety and depression and deprives citizens of the freedom to benefit from the direction of experts.
WARNING: An informed electorate damages national security and empowers the nation's enemies.
Holy balls that abortion thread is getting long.
WARNING: abortion threads can cause temporary insanity.
WARNING: Fuck You That's Why
WARNING: Beer goggles are temporary.
WARNING: Do not read label while driving or operating heavy machinery.
WARNING: Open space requirements may cause brains to fall out
WARNING: Sex has never been conclusively proven not to cause lung cancer.
WARNING: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength
WARNING: This cake may have suspicious frosting.
Warning: Not breathing frequently could cause potential health risks, including death.
Warning: Moving to San Francisco causes your shit to not stink.
Warning Warning: Excessive use of Warnings may cause disregard of Warnings.
Yo dawg...
Warning: Harry Callahan is no longer employed by the city, so enter at your own risk.
Welcome to San Francisco: We know what's good for you.
Blam! Blam! Blam! Warning:
Boyz in Blue.
Warning: Do not touch fire.
WARNING: Vaginal secretions contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer.
WARNING: Core breach in progress.
No written warning, just a picture of Hitler next to the name of every candidate on every ballot.
Sugar: the New Coke.
Uber: the New Koch
WARNING: Consumption of sugar is not known not to cause death.
WARNING: Watch out for falling hobo urinals
"WARNING: There is a 100% chance of death after normal use of this product"
Because nothing will save us from the inevitable.
SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: I am not a doctor nor a general. May cause oily discharge.
(on lottery tickets)
Not recommended if the Government taught you Math.
WARNING: beware
I skimmed it when it was early, mostly reasonable, but I can't imagine 500 sane comments, so I'm not going back.
Tumblr needs to come with a derp warning label
I had the IMI baby eagle. Basically a CZ-75 clone. One of the best guns I ever owned.
Yup 9 mm stainless steel. 17 + 1. It was stolen.
*poors some 40 out*
YOU DISAGREE WITH ME ABOUT ABORTION?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Look, I think we can both agree CJ that if you or I sire a child, abortion should be mandatory. Now on to whiskey. Any good Rye recommendations?