The Week contest: Crowded Venice

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This week's question: Residents of popular European vacation destinations are complaining that they're being overwhelmed by ever-growing numbers of tourists — from April to October, some 500,000 sightseers visit Venice every day. In seven words or fewer, please come up with a new advertising slogan that the famed Italian canal city could use to discourage tourists from visiting.

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THE WINNER: "Venice: Our Sewers Are Open!"

Barb Bruning, Marathon, Wisconsin

SECOND PLACE: "Venice: Marco Polo left for a reason"

Justin Short, Baltimore

THIRD PLACE: "Save thousands! Visit your own polluted river"

Chrissy Brady, Wall Township, New Jersey

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"When in Rome, STAY!"

Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana

"Death in Venice: It's not fiction"

Nancy Swanson, Pleasant Valley, New York

"Venice: A sewer runs through it"

Elaine Horn, Los Osos, California

"Avoid that sinking feeling"

Ed Levin, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

"Venice: Wish You Were Gone-dola!"

Troup Miller, Austin, Texas

"Where you're one in a million, literally!"

Janine Witte, New Hope, Pennsylvania

"Our streets are flooded. Better stay home."

Allan Thomson, Gordonsville, Virginia

"Now featuring the largest collection of Americans!"

Jordan Shin, Eugene, Oregon

"You can-al find somewhere else to visit"

Emily Aborn, Temple, New Hampshire

"California has a Venice, too"

Robyn Kupferman, Culver City, California

"Gondoliers will now only sing 'Baby Shark'"

Barbara James, Bedford, Massachusetts

"Summer in Venice: Wading room only"

Skip Flanagan, Roseville, California

"An agoraphobic's nightmare"

Ivan Kershner, Salem, South Carolina

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