The Week contest: Lubricant larceny

Last week’s contest: To safeguard the top-secret recipe for its signature lubricant, the company behind WD-40 keeps only one handwritten copy of the full formula, which is stored in a lockbox in a San Diego bank vault. If Hollywood were to make a heist movie in which robbers try to steal the formula for the anti-squeaking serum, what would it be titled?

RESULTS:

THE WINNER: “Lotion’s Eleven”

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Jeff Morris, Alexandria, Va.

SECOND PLACE: “Smooth Criminal”

Matt Weatherly, Hillsborough, N.C.

THIRD PLACE: “The Silence of the Jambs”

Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

 “The Unstickup”

Jon Swets, Rockford, Mich.

“Palming the Grease”

Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Mass.

“The Sneaky Steal Gets the Grease”

Erica Avery, Greenfield, Mass.

“Pulp Friction”

Rick Torrence, The Village, Okla.

“Terminal Viscosity”

Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, Calif.

“Greasy Money”

Lucinda Cross, Houston

“Now You Hear Me, Now You Don't”

Peter Gordon, Great Neck, N.Y.

“Cool Hand Lube”

Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Ind.

“WD-41: The Squeakquel”

Diane Ross, Hatfield, Pa.

“The Great Grease Fleece”

Richard Haverlack, Allison Park, Pa.

“The Slip”

Michael Sullivan, Chapel Hill, N.C.

“Mission Unsqueakable”

Mark Miller, Los Angeles