This week's question: The National Park Service recently tweeted advising park visitors not to "push a slower friend down" if a bear is chasing them. What real or invented term could be used to describe this extreme form of self-preservation?
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"One-downmanship"
Glenn McNichol, Mount Laurel, N.J.
"The Heisman Maneuver"
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts
"Feeding Friendsy"
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
"Updated Priorities"
Norm Carrier, Flat Rock, N.C.
"A Maul Out of Love"
Hunter Burgan, Los Angeles, California
"BFF (Being the Faster Friend)"
Mary Jo Astrachan, Oneida, N.Y.
"Stop, Drop the Relationship, and Roll"
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia
"Throw Pokey to Smokey"
Jeff Jerome, Northampton, Massachusetts
"The Escape Claws"
Kevin Gillogly, Thousand Oaks, California
"The Code of Shove-lry"
Fran Freeman, Mill Valley, California
"Ultimate Bear-Baiting"
John Oberholtzer, West Lafayette, Indiana
"Tag, You're Et"
Leland Fishman, Petaluma, California
"Bear With Thee"
Rosalind Singer, Arlington, Virginia
"Pop Goes the Wheezer"
Nancy Owen-Farrell, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
