Butt Puns Ahoy! Neighborhood Group Shocked Its Little Catchphrase Contest Became Big Story.

Here's the deal: The neighborhood association has hit upon the city to install more ashtrays and other cigarette butt receptacles on Polk between California and Broadway. If subsequent litter surveys reveal a 25 percent or greater drop in the number of discarded butts, then more of these receptacles might be popping up throughout the city. How can you make money? By coming up with a clever catchphrase urging people not to litter and naming cigarette tubes illustrating this story. Get your entries in by Dec. 8.

Prennert rattled off a litany of butt-related puns -- someone else thought of it before us, pity that. But, in a statement that brought joy to my heart, she noted that the name for the cigarette butt tube could be "a bit racy." That's good, because this item -- as wide as a can of soda, 18 inches long and cylindrical -- should be christened a "John C. Holmes."

Here are some other possible handles for the ash tube:

• Butt-catcher or just catcher
  

• The Ash-hole

• Cig flute

• Tip stick

• Ash crash

And the catchprase:

• Put your butt where it belongs

• Stop Flicking!

• If you must be reprehensibly anti-social and smoke, at least do it with class...

• Be less dumb: dispose of cigarettes properly

• Throwing cigarettes on the street is one more avenue of pleasure that is no longer open to you

• We're tired of picking your butt...