The Week contest: Slap citizens
This week's question: A 363-pound man known as the Dumpling has been crowned champion of Russia's first "male slapping" contest, in which two competitors take turns forcefully slapping each other's faces, until one gives up. If a film studio were to make a Rocky-like movie about a face-slapper's inspiring journey to the championship, what would it be called?
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THE WINNER: "Borscht Belting"
Art Rodia, Woodbury, Connecticut
SECOND PLACE: "The Sound of One Hand Slapping"
Andru J. Reeve, Waterford, Virginia
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THIRD PLACE: "Slapping with the Enemy"
Janine Witte, New Hope, Pennsylvania
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Slapped My Way to the Top"
Jill Matthews, Tampa, Florida
"Hands Wide Open"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
"From Russia without Glove"
Kevin Gillogly, Thousand Oaks, California
"Whack to the Future"
Betsy Gelb, Houston, Texas
"Jowls"
Tina Cramer, Mansfield, Ohio
"Slapping Beauty"
Steve Zeitchik, New York City
"The Man Who Never Cried U.N.C.L.E."
Brent Yamashita, Palo Alto, California
"Cruel Hand Luke"
Steve Doll, Ormond Beach, Florida
"The Face & The Furious"
Chris & Ann Collins, Thousand Oaks, California
"White Men Can’t Thump"
Barbara James, Bedford, Massachusetts
"From Russia with Red Cheeks"
Diane G. Kercher, Tampa, Florida
"The Road to Slappiness"
Jeanne Barnes, Gulf Breeze, Florida
"Hit Men"
Sheldon Friedman, Englewood, Colorado
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