The following are winners in a New York Magazine contest in which contestants were asked to take a well-known expression in a foreign language, change a single letter, and provide a definition for the new expression.

• HARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS? - Can you drive a French motorcycle?
• EX POST FUCTO - Lost in the mail
• IDIOS AMIGOS - We're wild and crazy guys!
• VENI, VIPI, VICI - I came, I'm a very important person, I conquered
• J'Y SUIS, J'Y PESTES - I can stay for the weekend
• COGITO EGGO SUM - I think, therefore, I am a waffle
• RIGOR MORRIS - The cat is dead
• RESPONDEZ S'IL VOUS PLAID - Honk if you're Scots
• QUE SERA SERF - Life is feudal
• LE ROI EST MORT, JIVE LE ROI - The King is dead! No kidding.
• POSH MORTEM - Death styles of the rich and famous
• PRO BOZO PUBLICO - Support your local clown
• MONAGE A TROIS - I am three years old
• FELIX NAVIDAD - Our cat has a boat
• HASTE CUISINE - Fast French food
• VENI, VIDI VICE - I came, I saw, I partied
• QUIP PRO QUO - A fast retort
• ALOHA OY - Love, greetings, farewell, from such a pain you should never know
• MAZEL TON - Lots of luck
• APRES MOE LE DELUGE - Larry and Curly get wet
• PORTE-KOCHERE - Sacramental wine
• ICH LIEBE RICH - I'm really crazy about having dough
• FUI GENERIS - What's mine is mine
• VISA LA FRANCE - Don't leave chateau without it
• VENI VIDI VISA - I came, I saw, I bought
• CA VA SANS DIRT - And that's not gossip
• MERCI RIEN - Thank for nothin'.
• AMICUS PURIAE - Platonic friend
• L'ETAT, C'EST MOO - I'm bossy around here
• L'ETAT, C'EST MOE - All the world's a stage 

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