Best answers

You, gentle readers, are the best Greater Rochester has to
offer. Here are some of your more creative responses to our poll:

Dive bar: “Isn’t
this category really ‘Best Lux Lounge’?”

Place to take the
kids: “I’m going to have to say, ‘away.'”; “Mt Hope Cemetery”

Place for a first
date: “Comics Etc. (to reveal the real you)”; “Tally Ho”

Place for a last
date: “VAY SCHLEICH MEESON FUNERAL HOME”; “The zoo — looking at caged up
animals makes you wanna run free!”; “My apartment so I can kick you out”

Place to find
affordable gas: “Cars parked on the street“; “I don’t know. Venezuela?”; “My hubby’s butt.”

Tailor: “Mother-in-law”

Place to buy a used
car: “Not that huge guy”; “Who buys a used car?”

Honest auto repair: “If
you’re concerned about honesty, just do it yourself”; “They’re ALL crooks!! (and my hubby’s in the business)”

Place to shop for a
kid’s birthday present: “Beers of the World”; “Show World (just kidding)”;
“How about not raising consumer automatons for a change?”

Tattoo parlor: “Is
there one that’s not racist?”

Car wash: “My
driveway & my kids”; “Whoa-oo whoa-oo whoa-oo whoa-oo!!”

Band name: “Tony Danza’s Tap Dance Extravaganza”

Gay bar: “We
shouldn’t bar gays from anything.”

Playground: “Bar
Fly”

Place to people watch: “This makes no grammatical sense. Do you mean people-watch?”; “The mall (it’s
hilarious and fun)”; “Vegas”

Spa: “Dinosaur
Bar-B-Que”; “I don’t need no stinkin’
spa”; “In my backyard”; “Ugh”

Sports Team: “Lux Euchre players”

Gym: “Solve two
problems: ride a bike”

Bowling alley: “I
have yet to see a bowling alley that is distinguishable from any other.”

Golf course: “OAK
HILL (IF ONLY MORTALS COULD PLAY THERE)”

Public pool: “Mondays
when Herman lets you play for free at the Bug Jar”; “What’s the difference, I pee in them all!!”

Beach: “The
illegal one.”

Local news story of
2006: “That tree that looked like Jesus“;
“FaithTemplebookbag
giveaway“; “Bobby vs. Godzilla”

Commercial for a
local business: “HUGH-FucilloHundai”;
“House of Guitars — who else could get away with the same ad for 30 years?”

News crew: “13, I
guess … not that I watch regularly, but I like looking at Miranda Stone.”

Weatherman: “God”

Politician in need of
a smack to the head: “All of them–with the Constitution. Dumbasses”

Place to see & be
seen: “An eyeglass store”

Greater Rochester
bragging point: “Second Highest Homicide Rate”; “Greenness” “I don’t see
as many hobos on the street these days…I think they all were taken to jail”;
“We’re not as bad off as Buffalo”

Use of public funds: “Fix my goddamn street!”

Misuse of public
funds: “The Springfield Monorail er…I mean the
Fast Ferry”

Local celebrity: “Bucky Phillips”; “NOT
TEDDY GEIGER!!!!!!!!”; “Pisspot the Rabbit”; “Tim Beideck. He’s such a nice guy.”

This article appears in Nov 8-14, 2006.