contests

Which Conde Nast Titles Will Die?

Hamilton Nolan · 10/01/09 05:45PM

It's your lucky day, Gawker readers, because we are running one of our patented "contests," and the winner of the dubious prize could you be you! This one involves Conde Nast. But any idiot can enter. It's easy.

Which Media Megalomaniac is More Ridiculous?

Hamilton Nolan · 12/17/08 04:28PM

Woo, the feud between Conrad Black and Michael Wolff—an incarcerated media mogul fraudster and a self-absorbed media gossip—is heating up! Which of these two ridiculous men is more deserving of your scorn? Let's see:

Ads To Make You Gay

Hamilton Nolan · 11/11/08 03:53PM

Gay Times magazine in the UK got a bunch of ad agencies to make up ads that persuade straight guys to Go Gay. Now there is an idea that is sure to draw greatly varying reactions! Large versions of the three most interesting ones are below. The winner is last. Will this campaign work? Well that's a great setup for a joke, which I am not going to pursue. Here they are:

Win a Starter Wife Gift Bag and Be The Happiest Divorcée Currently Drunk In Your Living Room

Richard Lawson · 10/09/08 02:53PM

Ooh ooh! Check it out y'all! A sponsor, uh, sponsored contest! This one comes from the new USA series The Starter Wife. A starter marriage is defined as a first marriage that lasts less than 5 years and is over before the couple has children. After the jump are the names of 5 former celebrity couples...to win you have to identify if they qualify as "starter marriages" according to this definition. So if the couple broke up in under five years, had no kids, and it was both parties' first marriage, the answer is Yes. If they lasted longer than five years, had kids (adoption counts!), or at least one party was previously married, then the answer is No. If you get them all right and then we select your name, you get this fabulous gift bag! 1. Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman 2. Tom Green & Drew Barrymore 3. Halle Barry & David Justice 4. Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson 6. Angelina Jolie & Jonny Lee Mille Send responses to contests@gawker.com and enter for a chance to win the Starter Wife Gift Bag (pictured below). Don't forget to check out The Starter Wife, premiering Friday night on the USA Network. Standard contest rules apply.

It's The "Absurd Financial Product Some Rich Person Actually Bought" Contest!

Moe · 09/19/08 01:24PM

Well look, the market is up again, how (pardon me) UTTERLY FUCKING RETARDED. What this means: another huge plunge is invariably in sight! Because the government achieved this by outlawing short-selling temporarily on all the big stocks you'd want to short, and what the hell are hedge funds supposed to do about that? Gawker tipsters all over financeland are predicting a protracted bloodbath over the next couple months as investors sign up to get their money out of hedge funds. Dozens could go bust. But hey, here is a silver lining: hedge funds are for rich people! (Well, not anymore, now that America is running the world's biggest hedge fund with our tax dollars.) But hedge funds used to be for only the rich, and with your help we can illustrate how rich people are stupid. Inspired by this story about an insane Merrill Lynch investment vehicle called NORMA one expert quoted in the Wall Street Journal called "a tangled hairball of risk", I'm holding the Awful Vodkas I Have Drank of the plutocracy, an "Absurd Financial Product Some Rich Person Actually Bought" contest. I asked one of our tipstering financiers about the most retarded investment vehicle he'd ever seen.

Valleywag puts its money where your personal information is

Owen Thomas · 08/13/08 07:40PM

Valleywag's advertisers are so interested in you, it's a little creepy. Would a chance at winning a $300 prize salve your petty privacy concerns? If so, please take our new survey. It takes 10 minutes to complete, after which supplying your email address will enter you into a drawing for a $300 Visa gift card. Standard rules apply. The contest ends next Wednesday.

Shut Up, 'Nilla

Hamilton Nolan · 06/19/08 03:18PM

Racist ladies and gentlemen, we present to you your new slur for 'white people': "'Nilla." No longer will you be forced to muck by with the outdated "honky" or the bland "whitey." 'Nilla (first suggested by racial innovator Sarcastro) won in a landslide decision over runner-up slur "Altoid," capturing more than 80% of the vote. It's an apt choice. The term's obvious parallels to an already existing racial slur ensure that you will never be safe saying it-in fact, shouting "'Nilla" in a crowded area almost guarantees that you will offend everybody present, one way or another. So it has the best quality of any slur: it should never be said. Seriously, don't say it-or any other slurs-and we'll all get along in peace and harmony. Good job!

$300 says you'll tell our advertisers all your secrets

Owen Thomas · 04/23/08 12:20PM

Some women will give up their passwords for chocolate; men will do the same for porn. Alas, we can offer you neither. But how about $300? Take this survey, add a throwaway email alias, and you'll be entered into a drawing for a $300 American Express gift card. Standard rules apply. Think of all the chocolate you can buy if you win. Or porn. Fill out the form; it should take 5-10 minutes. The contest ends today at 3 p.m. Pacific.

"So I Said If He Couldn't Even Handle That Simple Story, Maybe He'd Be More Comfortable Working For Cat Fancy."

Hamilton Nolan · 04/21/08 04:36PM

Cat Fancy, the magazine that is the best punchline in any magazine joke, is apparently too broke to hire an ad agency. So they're searching for ad submissions with the theme "Cats Rule!" from you, the cat fanciers. The winning ad will appear right there in the pages of Cat Fancy. Why not make some ads that are funny and send them to us instead, if you truly believe, incorrectly, that "Cats Rule!" Ha, Cat Fancy. [Cat Fancy (ha) via Adfreak]