The Week contest - Cave painting graffiti

Welcome to The Week's "What Next?" contest, an invitation to test your powers of imagination with challenges inspired by current events.

Click here for the results of the previous contest: Apocalypse-proof homes

Last week's question: An archaeologist has discovered an aboriginal cave painting in the Australian outback that was created 28,000 years ago. We asked you what graffiti could have been found next to it.

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RESULTS:

THE WINNER: Say NO to the wheel

Irma Vidaurri, Fort Worth, TX

SECOND PLACE: Only 9,492,798 shopping days until Christmas!

Ron Sartore, Poway, CA

THIRD PLACE: Repent now! The world will end in 27,999 BC

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

The beginning is near!

Kurt von Kampen, Seward, NE

I love Lucy

Bennett Tarleton, Nashville, TN

Chief of tribe no born in this country!

Barbara James, Bedford, MA

Save the Palorchestes. Eat more Dromornithidae.

Dennis Gittinger, Fair Oaks Ranch, TX

When spear outlawed, only outlaw have spear!

Mark Karnowski, Lindstrom, MN

Larry King was here.

Neal Connelly, Mahtomedi, MN

Kilroy will be here.

Jim Tripp, Menomonie, WI

Betty White rocks!

Dawn Lowery, Loveland, OH

Strom Thurmond for Senate

Barry Wolfe, Roanoke, VA

Fred loves Wilma

Glenn Shimizu, Claremont, CA

For a good time, didgeridoo Oogina

Gene Huntley, Elkhorn, WI

Vote for Org: He will lower your taxes and increase your benefits

Charles Hardersen, Bloomfield, CT

A dingosaurus ate my baby!

Paul Kim, Covington, LA

Save the sabertooth!

John C. Lefton, Medford, NJ

End the Ice Age now and stop global cooling!

Jeffrey Contompasis, Ashburn, VA

Your uncle is a monkey.

Martin Schnuit, Glen Burnie, MD

No shoes, no shirt – welcome!

Betty Wilson, Portland, OR

Raptors rule! Dragons drool!

Lillian Mullen, East Orange, NJ

Lascaux was here

James Scillieri, Wayne, NJ

Marked with my iChisel 4

Robert Skrob, Tallahassee, FL

Day 12: Paleo diet seems to be working

Lily Helpenstell, Corvallis, OR

Come worship our totem with us.

Kenneth R. Updegrove, Cedaredge, CO

Ask not at whom the Kookabura laughs. He laughs at thee.

Randall Butler, Ventura, CA

Will paint your hut for food

Dan Mackney, Wetumpka, AL

My other dinosaur is a T Rex

Steve Robinson, The Villages, FL

Watch this space

Richard Rochna, Virginia Beach, VA

Cubs lose. Wait till next year!

Shirley Hanold, Tucson, AZ

It doesn't get much better than this!

Bob Setterberg, Portland, OR