The Week contest: Floating ice
This week's question: Hundreds of fishermen and women had to be rescued from Minnesota's Upper Red Lake after the chunk of ice where they stood broke off and went adrift. Come up with the title of a disaster movie melodrama about this harrowing accidental voyage.
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THE WINNER: "Lake We-be-gone"
Don Weinberg, Bonita Springs, Florida
SECOND PLACE: "Gone with the Floe"
Phyllis Klein, Forest Hills, New York
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THIRD PLACE: "Thaws"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Floe to Hell"
Paul Steckler, Oakland, California
"Their Eyes Were Watching Cod"
Wendy Playter, Austinburg, Ohio
"Lord of the Floes"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Trip of the Iceberg"
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
"Off the Waterfront"
Paul Carney, Pittsford, New York
"The Slow-Glidin' Adventure"
Kathy El-Assal, Clearwater, Florida
"Ice, Ice, Mayday"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
"Freezy Riders"
Janine Witte, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
"Apocalypse Snow"
Roseann Fanucchi, Sonoma, California
"Icy Almost Dead People"
Rick Torrence, The Village, Oklahoma
"Dead Man's Float"
Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts
"Die Hard on Soft Ice"
Bridget Kantoff, Chicago, Illinois
"Berger Kings"
David Greenhouse, Princeton, New Jersey
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