Contest winner

The Bonk prize, for best gay bar name, goes to Ian Preston, for Cockpit, as a rival to Mineshaft and Toolbox in combining a phallic symbol and an omphalic symbol in a name that also evokes a high-masculinity social context.

One Response to “Contest winner”

  1. arnold zwicky Says:

    From Ian Preston, more suggestions, though not quite of Cockpit quality:

    Log Cabin? Wood Hut? Tube Station? Pipe Shaft? (The last reusing “shaft” but as the omphalic term)

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