This week’s question: Wannabe tough guys in Russia are paying plastic surgeons to give them the “cauliflower ears” usually seen on boxers and MMA fighters. If a cosmetic surgeon were to open a clinic in the U.S. where non-pugilist patients can receive such heavyweight scars, what should the business be titled?
RESULTS:
THE WINNER: We Maim to Please
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John Ryan, Concord, Calif.
SECOND PLACE: I Maul Ears
Matt Weatherly, Hillsborough, N.C.
THIRD PLACE: We Will Rocky You
Shelly Estes, Pasadena, Calif.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Ear Today, Goon Tomorrow
Alan Kelley, New Bremen, Ohio
Resting Stitch Face
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, Calif.
Mobsters, Inc.
Shannon Pace, Chapel Hill, N.C.
The Flat Ear Society
Kenneth Walker, Bridgeport, Ohio
Brotox
Larry Rifkin, Glastonbury, Conn.
Punching Up
Erica Avery, Greenfield, Mass.
Uppercuts
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pa.
The MMA-yo Clinic
Guy Rusiski, Pittsburgh
Scarring Partners
Lynn Morales, Los Osos, Calif.
A Scar is Born
Bill Levine, Belmont, Mass.
Scarred for Life? We Guarantee It!
Carol J. Giesey, Hanover, Pa.
From Russia with Glove
Bellinda Blumenthal, Scottsdale, Ariz.
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