BEST OF ROCHESTER '06: 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."