Reason Weekly Contest: Super Supportive School Sports Cheer
Last week's winners revealed.
Welcome back to the Reason Weekly Contest! This week's question is:
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association has announced it will no longer allow students or cheerleaders to taunt the other team. Please come up with a new, super-supportive cheer.
How to enter: Submissions should be e-mailed to contest@reason.com. Please include your name, city, and state. This week, kindly type "CHEER" in the subject line. Entries are due by 11 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday, Jan. 18. Winners will appear on Jan. 22. 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: With North Korea claiming it has detonated a hydrogen bomb, we asked for a new nickname for the country.
THE WINNER:
"Make Korea Great Again"—Varon Mullis
SECOND PLACE:
#HalfLivesMatter—Tim Whalen, Manassas, VA
THIRD PLACE:
"Let a hundred flowers wither."—Christopher P. Brown, Idlewylde, MD
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Still less radioactive than Japan"
"Welcome to the DPRK: Where our Supreme Leader builds the nukes himself, by hand"—Brian Huisman, Burlington, Ontario
"Speak falsely, and carry a big dick."—RC
"North Korea: The country that H2Blows!"—Michael Holman, Salem, OR
"We have detonated a hydrogen bomb. And a short fat sociopath in an auto mechanic's outfit is a literal God. And we invented the hamburger. And our country is the envy of the world. And that talk about periodic mass famines and half of the population living without electricity, running water, or enough food is lies invented by the rest of the world, where people are literally dying in the streets. And we have thousands of border guards ordered to shoot any of our citizens who try to leave this paradise."—Jim Henshaw (aka Prolefeed), Austin, TX
"We may not have lights, but now we glow!"—Keith W. Pulley
"Our future's so bright, we've got to wear shades!"—Nick Sayeedi, Castle Rock, CO
"It's Not Only Our Kimchi That Will Make You Feel the Burn" —Walter Hayes, Hartsdale, NY
" Visit North Korea and live The Hunger Games!"—Ben Fairbanks, Boulder, CO
"Live Free or Die. Ha! We Make You Do Second One."
"Korea—where you can have a blast!"—Joyce Farrell, Wautoma, WI
Here Today, Pyong Tomorrow.—Christopher P. Brown, Idlewylde, MD
"Now the brightest spot in the satellite photos"
"Kim-boom!"
"Home of the Seoul-seeker"—Jim Noble, Boulder Creek, CA
AND FROM THE COMMENTS:
"Norkuler Superpower!"
"North Korea: Who's brighter at night now, bitch?"
"Come for the poverty, stay for the oppression!"
"Millions for defense, not a penny for food!"
"Gangnam Style!"
"North Korea: We only have one obese person in the whole country! Suck it, fatso Americans!"
"Can you see us now, NASA?"