The Week contest: Looking for lizards
This week's question: Cold weather has compelled the National Weather Service to warn Floridians to watch out for cold-stunned iguanas, which have been tumbling from trees. If you were to design a road sign warning of the danger of falling, frozen reptiles, what would it say?
Click here to see the results of last week's contest: Going with the floe
THE WINNER: "Lizards in the Sky while Driving''
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Bill Newyear, Pahrump, Nev.
SECOND PLACE: "Speed bumps ahead; they may not be dead''
Amy Mower, Greenwood Village, Colo.
THIRD PLACE: "A Reptile Dysfunction Ahead"
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Rebecca Burgan, Grass Valley, Calif.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Lizards Ice Before Bridge"
Louis Panzer, Jamestown, N.C.
"Beware: Green Ice"
Neal Leatherman, Glen Rock, Penn.
"Road Slithery When Wet"
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, Calif.
"Land of the Tossed"
Jeffrey R. Patterson, Nashville
"Reptiles Freeze Before Road Surface"
Jennifer Maggio, Galloway, N.J.
"Beware: Road Chill"
Phyllis Klein, Forest Hills, N.Y.
"Warning: Biblical plague area"
Beth Simon, Oakland, Calif.
"Biblical Plague Zone"
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Mass.
"Warning: Live Speed Bumps Ahead"
Carol Anthony, Mountain View, Calif.
"Speed Limit: 20 frozen reptiles per hour"
Raymond Hendrickson, Houston
"Watch for scale hail"
George Stone, Reno, Nev.
"Caution: Entering Frogger 2.0"
Meghan Fanning, Shelburne, Vt.
"Falling Reptiles Are Harder Than They Appear"
Aaron Schmidt, North Olmsted, Ohio
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