The Week contest: Burning love
This week's question: A love-struck British man accidentally destroyed his home after he lit hundreds of tea-light candles in his apartment, poured two glasses of wine, then went to fetch his girlfriend to propose. The couple returned to find the apartment engulfed in flames, but firefighters said she "still said YES!" If Hollywood were to make a romantic comedy about this hot love story, what should the film be titled?
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THE WINNER: "Incendiary Proposal"
Stephen Elmore, San Francisco
SECOND PLACE: "Matchstruck"
Andrea Viani, Spring Lake, New Jersey
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THIRD PLACE: "Days of Wine and Hoses"
Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Roman Candle Holiday"
Beth Cedarholm, River Falls, Wisconsin
"Forgetting Fire Marshall"
Tim Lanter, Alexandria, Kentucky
"The Wedding Singe-r"
Janine Witte, New Hope, Pennsylvania
"When Harry Met Smokey"
Michael Henn, Piedmont, California
"Back-daft"
Phyllis Klein, New York City
"Zack and Miri Make a Pyro"
Peter Smith, Santa Monica, California
"About Last Ignite"
Glen Alfredson, Durham, North Carolina
"Sixteen Hundred Candles"
Erica Avery, Greenfield, Massachusetts
"A Flare to Remember"
Jay Lacke, Westbrook, Maine
"Four Firetrucks and A Proposal"
Sara Mangat, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania
"Love, Arson-ly"
Shane Rowan, Windsor, Colorado
"You Had Me at Hellfire"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
"Some Like It Really Hot"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
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