The Week contest: Rejects club
Last week's question: A new Los Angeles nightclub will admit only good-looking people, with beauty judges stationed at the door to turn away those deemed insufficiently attractive. If an entrepreneur were to open a club next door for people who failed the beauty test, what should it be called?
Click here for the results of last week's contest: Stud tortoise
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THE WINNER: "Studio 5s and 4s"
Peter Smith, Los Angeles
SECOND PLACE: "The Not So Hot Spot"
Phyllis Klein, New York City
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THIRD PLACE: "Club Meh"
Betsy Barr, Somerville, Mass.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Copacabanished
Jim McNichol, Scotch Plains, N.J.
"Fright Club"
Mike Boskovic, Glen Ellyn, Ill.
"House of Discards"
William H. Benson, Sterling, Colo.
"The Velvet Nope"
Audrey Nagel, Burlington, N.J.
"Revel Without a Corset"
David Killick, Tucson, Ariz.
"Bar None"
Kathy El-Assal, Middleton, Wis.
"HEEBGB"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vt.
"Bumped Uglies"
Clifford Lazarus, Skillman, N.J.
"Only the Homely"
Ed Levin, Chapel Hill, N.C.
"Studio You Look 54"
David McMillan, Brooklyn
"Club Med-ium"
Mark Schaffer, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
"The Poxy"
Maya McGrory, Centreville, Md.
"The Lower Bar"
Tony Sannella, Mill Valley, Calif.
"The 99 Percent"
Rick Glass, Arlington, Va.
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