The Week contest: Decade Name - Dec. 25, 2009

Click here for results of last week's contest: Worst Gift

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