Name the Sewage Plant Contest winner announced

Shit Storm Central is not a name that I expect will find its way into the vernacular, which is too bad. There was a real opportunity for Coast readers to actually add something colorful and lasting to the local culture, and there were several good suggestions that would have worked. The winning entry in my opinion, is not one of them.

Yes, I know… Before you jump all over me.. It was a democratic vote… The people have spoken. Blah blah blah… But I wonder if the Coast had the ability/desire to monitor the voting process for ballot stuffers as they do for the Best Of Halifax and similar vote-based contests. As I monitored the voting SSC was getting zero votes all the way through and then took off toward the end. Why would people hate it all along and then like it at the end?

Anyone familiar with any of the thumbs up/thumbs down Internet voting programs (e.g. Urban Dictionary, CBC.ca) knows you can vote for your own submissions over and over again, in some cases many times per day. I suspect that is probably what happened here. And while not on a scale of the voter irregularities in the Iran election, in the end a fraud is still a fraud, and I smell one here.

The fact that the winning name contained the word “shit” probably accounted for a lot of the votes too, particularly from the type of individual that giggles in a movie theatre every time they hear a naughty word. Probably half or better of the entries contained “shit” or “poop” somewhere in the title , which at best is cute in that third grader bathroom humor kind of way, and at worst, really kind of lame.

And contrary to comments by its contributor, the winning entry is not at all “easy on the tongue”. Say it out loud two or three times and it’s a tongue twister reminiscent of “she sells sea shells down by the seashore”.

Oh well, lets just hope they get the goddamn thing fixed. Regardless of what name you give it, it’s fucking disgusting.