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And the winner ...

By Bruce Ackerman
Posted on December 12, 2005, Printed on February 13, 2012
http://www.alternet.org/story/29433/and_the_winner_...

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.

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