And the winner ...

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 7:33 AM on December 12, 2005.

Several others made valiant efforts (with one write-in receiving 1 vote) but your runaway favorite slogan for Michael Brown's Disaster Consulting agency is When you need help really bad, we have really bad help.

MarkAlread's Wal-Mart DVD-winning slogan received 21 votes. (Email me at: peek@alternet.org with your address, credit card number, social security, checking account routing number, mother's maiden name, and blood type.)

2nd place is BrotherBear's #10: Anyone can plan for a disaster; we make it happen! = 8 votes

3rd place is Dadster3's #9 We fuck up so you don't have to. = 6 votes.

Honorable Mention goes to Artkansas' #6 Don't let amateurs mess things up for you. Get a pro. = 5 votes.

Other vote-getters were:

3 votes:

• From the same people who brought you Iraq!
• There's no 'ME' in emergency.
• When the day-after-tomorrow is too soon, use Mike Brown.

2 votes:

• When the going gets tough, we will hire a consulting agency to study the demographics then take a survey to determine if an actual disaster has taken place.
• Been there, didn't do that!
• You've tried all the rest, now try the worst
• Michael Brown, Disaster Consultant: It Takes One to Know One!

1 vote:

• Brown Emergency Consulting, Inc.: Turning Natural Disasters into tragedies since 2005.
• Been there, didn't do that!
• Michael Brown: Getting it Right the Second Time Arownd!

Thanks for participating and congratulations to the winner. The real winner here, as always, is PR. (Peek)

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Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet.