This week's question: An iconoclastic forklift driver from Canada has tattooed almost every inch of his body in a Smurf-like blue. Donnie Snider says his unusual skin tone has earned him "gasps," "free beers" and "fist bumps." If Snider were to write a memoir extolling the benefits of going blue, what should it be titled?
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THE WINNER: "Azure Like It"
Lawton Stephens, Athens, Georgia
SECOND PLACE: "I Was Sad, Now I'm Blue"
Doug Johnston, Erie, Pennsylvania
THIRD PLACE: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Skin"
Steve Ellingboe, Amherst Junction, Wisconsin
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"The Blue Man Coup"
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana
"The Art of the Teal"
Bonnie Johnson, Indianapolis
"Live Fast Dye Young"
Pete Winslow, Alexandria, Virginia
"Smurf's Up!"
John Clark, Eaton, Ohio
"It's Easy Being Blue"
Michael Rouse, Troy, Michigan
"Tatted Up in Blue"
Doug Lindberg, Bradenton, Florida
"The Real Aqua Man"
Janine Witte, New Hope, Pennsylvania
"The Power of Positive Inking"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
"Don't Blow It, Blue It"
Joe Ayella, Wayne, Pennsylvania
"The King of Cyan"
John Munsch, Boulder, Colorado
"Notorious B.L.U.E."
Renée Chevalie, New York City
"Forever Blue"
Gerald Cryderman, Gold River, California
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