# The winner of the StDNUT contest is ...! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682 "2004-04-07T03:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/21 "2004-04-08T08:17:50Z")
> [@MonkeyMule](#): > > No, your only problem is figgure out how to incoperate a 30 foot tall Brazen monkeymule statue into your front lawn. Also, the statue should be reading from the great book of Simian-Equines. I don’t have a front lawn, I have a front shrubbery and a front weedery and a front stray cat poopery. But if you don’t mind the inglorious surroundings, the statue might add some much needed interest. > [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > What this really means is the rest of you who entered really sucked. > > I mean that in a good way. Would that make me the least sucky amongst the multitudes of suckdom? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/22 "2004-04-08T11:06:18Z")
_Multitudes of Suckdom._ This phrase just exemplifies Pop music and all of my posts in one felled swoop. ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/23 "2004-04-08T19:57:04Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > _Multitudes of Suckdom._ > > This phrase just exemplifies Pop music and all of my posts in one felled swoop. Then… BAND NAME! ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/24 "2004-04-09T22:47:45Z")
Just a little word here from your new ru…err Contest prize giver outer. Congrats to all the winners, your prizes are all in the mail, and with one or two exceptions, you should all be getting your prizes next week sometime. Maybe even soon who the hell knows with this postal system. Anyway, I’d love to know how you guys are enjoying the books, and if any of them are any good (I didn’t read most of them) oh and as for you MR., Grand prize winner, You sir should name your first born after me, Ed and the Tubadiva. Sure MonkeyEdDiva is unwieldily, but kids are tough. He’ll cope. Also, today was my last day at my Job, so new free book contests in the forseeable future, unless another doper works at a big publisher and feels like running one. Sorry bout that I’m glad everyone had a great time with this contest, it was a ton of fun to do. I wish I’d though of it sooner, but at least I got to give a bunch of great people a bunch of pretty good books. I love you guys. 😃 All I ask in return in your undying loyalty when the revolution comes. Thank you MM ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/25 "2004-04-10T08:20:58Z")
What if I don’t have any children? What then, huh? What if I just have a Lego Yoda or something? Your name he will take not. ---
**Author:** ![available\_light](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@available\_light](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/available_light)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/26 "2004-04-10T15:39:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **MonkeyMule** > Anyway, I’d love to know how you guys are enjoying the books, and if any of them are any good (I didn’t read most of them) oh and as for you MR., Grand prize winner, You sir should name your first born after me, Ed and the Tubadiva. Sure MonkeyEdDiva is unwieldily, but kids are tough. He’ll cope. I’m gonna have to veto this one. I think I get some sort of say in this, seeing as how I’ll be the one carrying and givng birth to said firstborn. I do send my thanks, though, seeing as how I get to be an unintended beneficiary of my husband’s wit and your coolness in providing the prizes! 😃 We haven’t gotten the books yet, but when we do, I’ll be sure to let you know how they are! And **sturmhauke** is right, it will be difficult to fit them in, seeing as how we already have 7 bookcases which are absolutely overflowing already. But we’d never turn away books!! So thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/27 "2004-04-10T15:59:50Z")
Yea, there’s a real irony in my winning this. I’m actually selling a box of books I don’t want to move on Amazon. And then I go and win this one! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/28 "2004-04-10T19:32:37Z")
I love the part where all of the **Honorable Mention** Dopers are sent a Straight Dope coffee mug. I think that this, above all else, personifies the beauty and humanity that **IS** Ed Zotti. 😃 Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/29 "2004-04-10T20:03:41Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I love the part where all of the **Honorable Mention** Dopers are sent a Straight Dope coffee mug. > > I think that this, above all else, personifies the beauty and humanity that **IS** Ed Zotti. > > 😃 > > Cartooniverse There ya go. I mentioned a certificate, at least, but a mug is good. Big handle, so all four fingers get to grab it. ED ZOTTI RULES! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/30 "2004-04-10T20:26:44Z")
Ah, **Ed** , really? We’re getting mugs? What a sweetheart! (Where’s the yahoo eye-batting smiley when you really need it?) ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/31 "2004-04-10T21:36:48Z")
> [@available light](#): > > I’m gonna have to veto this one. I think I get some sort of say in this, seeing as how I’ll be the one carrying and givng birth to said firstborn. I do send my thanks, though, seeing as how I get to be an unintended beneficiary of my husband’s wit and your coolness in providing the prizes! 😃 Hey lady, We’re giving you free books and you don’t want to at least name a single child after us? For shame. iF you are a betty warry of the “offical” name for the babe, why not call him “Zotti-Diva of the Mule” as a nickname. I don’t want you to think we’re orges about this. We’re very flexibile –END TRANSMISSION ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/32 "2004-04-12T21:55:34Z")
> [@Ed Zotti](#): > > Ed Zotti > Mr. Big > > (Submitted by **Shirley Ujest** - not sure why I liked it, I just did). I’m sorry, but it appears someone is trying to rise above his station. Uncle Cecil has, of course, devolved upon you a perfectly good nickname – Little Ed – and this attempt to embiggen yourself smacks of self-aggrandizement. Might I suggest that a more suitable title would be “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. And, ignoring the fact that the deadline has passed, I should like to be known as: whitetho e teeming unum ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/33 "2004-04-20T07:00:35Z")
Okay, most of you should have received your loot by now. Please let me know if not. Except for gouda, who we are working with re the customs issue, and GMRyujin. I must report that Monkey Mule accidentally mailed your box of books to me. So . . . what’s it worth to ya? Just kidding, I’ll go to the post office tomorrow. Sorry for the mixup. A big BIG thank you to Monkey Mule for his consideration for all of us in this. your humble TubaDiva Administrator PS Coffee mugs? Nice try. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/34 "2004-04-20T09:54:29Z")
I have not received anything yet. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/35 "2004-04-20T13:25:56Z")
I have just received my books today and I love them. Thankyou to **MonkeyMule** obviously for providing the books and even more thankyous to **Ed** for picking me, Yeah, me! and even, even more thankyous go out to **TubaDiva** for getting in touch because otherwise I wouldn’t even have my prizes. Cheers everyone, you made my day! Daniel 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/36 "2004-04-20T21:42:24Z")
I finally got my box today. Jesus this thing is heavy. When I get a chance to read through them all I’ll post a review thread about it. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/37 "2004-04-20T21:56:26Z")
Not bragging, are we? ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/38 "2004-04-21T03:30:13Z")
Of course we are, don’t be silly. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/39 "2004-04-21T17:59:12Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > PS Coffee mugs? Nice try. > [@](#): > > **Yoda, from _The Empire Strikes Back_** > > There is no Try. There is only Do, or Do Not. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682/40 "2004-04-21T21:38:56Z")
Yea, I got my box… I am already on page 70 of “Universe on a T-shirt” and other than be fairly basic, it is rather smooth and informative. Thanks again! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-winner-of-the-stdnut-contest-is/238682.md?page=3)