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Freakonomics prize she wants. The other winners:
LIMBERHAND THE MASTURBATOR
    A reader named Robbie wrote in to tell of an Idaho court case about expected privacy in a public restroom stall. This was in relation to the Larry Craig brouhaha . Here’s a brief excerpt from the Idaho case :
    The defendant was arrested for obscene conduct after an officer observed him, through a four-inch hole in a stall partition, masturbating in a public restroom. This Court determined that Limberhand had a legitimate expectation of privacy in the restroom stall notwithstanding the existence of the hole.
    That’s right: the man in the stall who was arrested for masturbating in public was named Limberhand.
    (Honorable mention in the Below-the-Belt category goes to the reader who wrote this: “I once edited a medical journal article about penile lengthening, written by Dr. Bob Stubbs. Best of all, he learned his technique from a Chinese plastic surgeon, Dr. Long.”)
EIKENBERRY THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR
    A reader named Paul A. wrote this: “In Peru, Indiana, there’s a funeral home director whose last name is ‘Eikenberry’ (pronounced ‘I can bury’). He’s actually part of a partnership, and the funeral home is called (drumroll, please) ‘Eikenberry Eddy.’”
    (Honorable mention in the Six-Feet-Under category to the reader who writes: “In my hometown [Amarillo, TX], there is a funeral director called Boxwell Brothers. This one can’t be beat.”)
JUSTIN CASE THE INSURANCE GUY
    I’m not sure this one is real but I will assume that Kyle S., the reader who sent it in, is an honest man: “My State Farm agent’s name is Justin Case . . .” Enough said.
    And finally, though I said we’d give just three prizes, there were so many aptonymous dentists that I think we have to stretch the winners to four. Here’s my favorite:
CHIP SILVERTOOTH
    A reader named Scott Moonen writes: “My former dentist was named Eugene Silvertooth. From childhood he had the nickname Chip Silvertooth.”
    (The honorable mention for dentists goes to a reader named Anshuman: “Unfortunately, I moved away from San Francisco and had to leave my dentist, Dr. Les Plack. He was born for the job, right?”)

CHAPTER 3
Hurray for High Gas Prices!

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    If there is one thing economists think they know everything about, it is prices. To an economist, there is a price on everything, and everything has a price. Regular people think of prices as what you grumble about at the store; economists think of prices as the logic that organizes our world. So of course we’ve had a lot to say on this topic over the years.
Somebody Hates Me $5 Worth
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    There is a website—one that is so stupid I feel embarrassed to even give it free publicity—called www.WhoToHate.com. The idea behind the site is you pay them five bucks, write in the name of someone you hate, and the website writes to the person telling them that there is someone who hates them.
    I got one of those hate mails today, meaning that someone hates me enough to be willing to pay five dollars to have me receive such an e-mail.
    From an economic perspective, it is an interesting product they are providing. Does the person spending the five dollars get utility from the act of declaring (albeit completely anonymously) their hatred? Or does the utility come from the (real or imagined) pain on the part of the recipient when he or she discovers the depth of another’s hatred?
    For someone who actively hates me, the only source of satisfaction would be the first channel. I already get loads of hatred coming my way every day—hatred that is far more vicious than this whimsical e-mail I received after they spent five dollars. Indeed, the fact that the person who hates me identified me as Steve Levitt from California (where I lived only briefly while visiting Stanford a number of years ago) actually gave me a good chuckle.
    It got me thinking. Maybe the website would be well served to allow the hater to make