Does your mind work in unexpected or humorous ways? Great! You are a candidate to compete in creating the funniest marriage vow for an epidemiologist in our humorous “marriage vow contest”.

We were inspired to create the contest by the University of North Florida’s Tammie Johnson, a faculty member with a sense of humor she uses in her teaching. Johnson is recently married and in thinking of the vows she would exchange with her new husband, her sense of humor coined this vow: “I promise I will always fail to reject you.”

Johnson is now marketing her humor with a new online T-shirt company. In collaboration with Johnson, the Epi Monitor will offer a $500 prize for the best slogan submitted to epimon@aol.com before March 1, 2014. The goal is to coin a vow as funny or funnier than Johnson’s. And we confess our editor has a weakness for double entendres!

The winner of the slogan contest will be picked by a panel of judges including epidemiologists selected by The Epidemiology Monitor. The winning slogan becomes property of The Epidemiology Monitor and will be used by Dr Johnson and her company to produce and sell T-shirts emblazoned with the winning entry.

Readers may submit as many slogans as possible. In the event that the same slogan/vow is submitted by more than one person, the earliest submission will be the only valid entry for that slogan.  ■

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