The Week contest: Chocolate racket
Last week's question: Convicted ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff has reportedly bought up every packet of hot chocolate at the North Carolina penitentiary where he's serving a 150-year sentence, and is now selling the packs for a profit to other inmates. If Hollywood were to make a prison movie about Madoff's latest racket, what should it title the film?
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THE WINNER: "Crimes and Swiss-Missdemeanors"
Tom Brasek, Wilmette, Ill.
SECOND PLACE: "Jailhouse Choc"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
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THIRD PLACE: "One Flew Over the Cocoa's Nest"
Earl Weinmann, Northfield, Minn.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"The Shawshank Confection"
Eric Swartz, Folsom, Calif.
"Brewing Bad"
Brianna Zabek, Acworth, Ga.
"The Godivafather"
John Parry, Eldersburg, Md.
"The Color of Mocha"
Jay Russell, New York City
"The Swiss Missfit"
Suzanne Beck, Bedford, N.H.
"Mocha My Day"
Dave T.W. Baxter, Orono, Maine
"Cons like it hot"
George Bell, Bedford, N.H.
"Cocoa Nostra"
John McMillion, Prescott, Ariz.
"Behind (Candy) Bars"
Kevin Spinner, Mill Valley, Calif.
"GoodMallows: The Packet Racket"
Tracy Kristoff, Winter Garden, Fla.
"The Co-Co Convict"
Mo Lieberoff, San Mateo, Calif.
"Swiss Misbehaving"
Kevin Spinner, Mill Valley, Calif.
"Some Like It Hot Chocolate"
Jody Zellman, New York City
"The Cocoa Capo"
Sue Winget, Mesa, Ariz.
"StirBucks"
Arnie Silverman, Murrysville, Pa.
"Looking For Mr. Badbar"
Andrew Tuite, Chicago
"The Swiss Miss Connection"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vt.
"The Swiss Miss Redemption"
Tom Huitema, Portage, Mich.
"The Sweet Cell of Success"
Jody Potter, Millerton, N.Y.
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