This week’s question: A Chinese businessman has opened two popular “scratching salons,” where customers lie down on a bed and have their back itches tended to by spa workers wearing specially designed pointed nails. If an entrepreneur were to open a scratch parlor in the U.S., what should the business be titled?
THE WINNER: Itch Doctors
Michael Rouse, Troy, Mich.
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SECOND PLACE: Bed, Back & Beyond
Kanaaz Pereira, Mount Pleasant, S.C.
THIRD PLACE: The Scratching Post
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Relief Itchers
Peter Gordon, Great Neck, N.Y.
The Wizard of “AAH”s
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Mass.
Nailed It!
Teri Malkin, Rowland Heights, Calif.
We’ve Got Your Back
Bill Levine, Belmont, Mass.
The Wicked Itch
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pa.
Itch, Please
Stuart Burkhoff, Great Neck, N.Y.
That's the Spot!
Erica Avery, Greenfield, Mass.
Bed of Nails
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh
The Itch Niche
Janine Witte, Doylestown, Pa.
The Great Escrape
Lucinda Ross, Houston
Planet Itchness
John Vriesema, Whitinsville, Mass.
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