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Results: We asked you to come up with a name for the “aughts”—or the “oughts” or the “naughts.” You know: The decade that just, mercifully, ended. You rang in with:
FIRST PRIZE: The Uh-Oh's!
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Jo Choto, Middletown, MD
SECOND PRIZE: The Owes
Michael D'Amato, Edison, NJ
THIRD PRIZE: The Dreckade
Miles Klein, Frisco, TX
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
The Blunder Years
Doug Hundley, Willits, CA (and others)
The Naughty Naught-ies
Evan Streng, Madison, WI (and others)
The Grim Naught-ies
Sal Williams, Clewiston, FL
The Wii Decade
Suzanna K. Perez, Providence RI
The 0 No's
Dee Dunn, Hillsboro, VA (and others)
The Zeroes
Constantine Kounelis, Carlsbad, CA (and others)
The 00zies
Sarah Maxey, Winslow, IL
The Texties
Myrlon Pressly,Crofton, MD
The Googles
Bob Linfors, Miami (and others)
The Hang00vers
Michael Palmer, Chicago
The Hell-O’s
H. Dick Reynolds Jr.,McPherson KN
Reign of Error
Tom MacIntosh, Baltimore
Forget Me Aughts
Barry Cutler, Palm Desert, CA
The Big “Oh!”s
A.J. Smith, Scenery Hill PA
The Ughs
Jeff Gluck, Charlotte, NC
The Yearos of Zeros
Paul Allidi, Liverpool, NY
The Ouchies
Rhonda Taller, Wayne, PA
The W M D (Worst Mother****ing Decade)
Bill Corlett, Corral ID
The Uncheery-O’s
Paul Studebaker, Valparaiso, IN
The Bubbles
Scott C. Schnepf, Chicago
0 Well
Steve White, Boise
The Decade Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken
Larry Fish, New York City
The Decade Formerly Known as The Distant Future
Michael Tangredi, St. Joseph, MN
