Suggestions and questions are welcome and encouraged.
On the right you will see links to some representation of that Week's appearance in the paper:
Text file | ||
Downloadable Microsoft Word version | ||
html | Webpage made from a Word file | |
HTML | Webpage from a search of the Post archives, or a scrape of an webpage findable with search engines | |
Webpage containing an image of the SI page | ||
Downloadable PDF of the SI page | ||
E | Downloadable PDF of the e-version of the SI page |
There are still a few gaps, which we will close by consulting our extensive clippings file.
THEMES: Below are what will become links to subsets of these contests, which I call "themes." Most of the contests have been assigned one or more themes, which are indicated with trigraphs. It was not easy going through more than a thousand synposes to make these subjective assignments, so please let me know of any adjustments that should be made.
Anagrams (ANA) -- Analogies (ANL) -- Art (ART) -- Athletics and Sports (ATH) -- Bumperstickers (BUM) -- Business and Commerce (BUS) -- Captions (CAP) -- Cartoons (CAR) -- Comics (COM) -- Crossword Puzzles (CRO) -- Culture and Entertainment (CUL) -- Differences (DIF) -- Epitaphs (EPI) -- Google (GOO) -- Headlines (HEA) -- Historical (HIS) -- Horses (HOR) -- Hyphens (HYP) -- Jeopardy (JEO) -- Jokes (JOK) -- Language (LAN) -- Legislation (LEG) -- Letters (LET) -- Limericks (LIM) -- Literature (LIT) -- Movies (MOV) -- Music (MUS) -- Photos (PIX) -- Poetry (POE) -- Political and Government (POL) -- Previous Contests (PRE) -- Questions (QUE) -- Religion (REL) -- Rorschach Tests (ROR) -- Science (SCI) -- Slogans (SLO) -- Style Invitational (STY) -- Television (TEL) -- T-shirts (TSH) -- Washington (WAS) -- Words (WOR)
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March 7, 1993 | 1 | SHEDDING THE SKINS? | Come up with a new name for the Redskins. | Douglas R. Miller | WAS ATH | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 14, 1993 | 2 | WRITE A MOTTO. WIN A MONSTROSITY. | Maryland needs a new motto, a multi-purpose slogan suitable for placement on a state seal or a license plate. Something grand, something that embodies the full bodacious majesty of the state. | Oslo | SLO POL | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 21, 1993 | 3 | A STATUE OF LIMITATIONS | Come up with a concept for a statue of someone -- anyone, dead or alive -- who doesn't currently have one. | Bob Zane | 1 | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 28, 1993 | 4 | [untitled] | This week, a gripe-fest about modernity and other irritations. Complete this sentence: "If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we ... " | Geri Klitsch Heidi Klitsch Tom Klitsch | 2 | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
April 4, 1993 | 5 | THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW | Invent a creative piece of legislation based on skillfully juxtaposed names of actual U.S. senators and representatives. | Jacki Drucker Carol Vance | LEG | 3 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
April 11, 1993 | 6 | PUTTING WORDS IN THEIR MOUTHS | In 40 words or less, write a caption for either of these two generic cartoons drawn by famed Style Invitational artist Marc Rosenthal | Chuck Smith | CAR | 4 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
April 18, 1993 | 7 | BEAT THE BANDS | Come up with a name for rock bands. | Beverley Brown | CUL | 5 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
April 25, 1993 | 8 | I AM SPURIOUS (YELLOW) | Write a headline for the Weekly World News (Maximum length, 10 words) | Byron Baker | HEA | 5 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
May 2, 1993 | 9 | VANITY UNFAIR | Create vanity license plates for famous people. | Don Beale | CUL | 6 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
May 9, 1993 | 10 | A WEEK THAT WILL LIVE IN EUPHEMY | Write us a funny euphemism. | Erik Johnson | WOR | 7 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
May 16, 1993 | 11 | YOU GIVE US THE BACKS OFF OUR SHIRTS | The back of the shirt needs a slogan, something that captures the spirit of The Style Invitational. What is that spirit? You tell us. | Mary Pat Jones Mary Pat Jones | TSH STY | 8 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
May 23, 1993 | 12 | HERE, DOGGEREL … | Write a limerick. It must contain one of the following names: "Hillary Rodham Clinton," "Jack Kevorkian," "George Stephanopoulos" or "Bosnia-Herzegovina." | Jimmy Nguyen | LIM CUL | 9 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
May 30, 1993 | 13 | ANAGRAMS = A MAN'S RAG | Come up with a funny anagram for the name of a famous person or institution. All letters in the name must be used, and no letters may be left over. | Donna Hughes-Hasle John Hughes-Hasle | ANA | 10 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 6, 1993 | 14 | COLLECTIVE INSANITY | Modernize collective nouns (as in a "pride" of lions or an "exaltation" of larks), inventing snide new names for groups of things. | Stuart Segal | WOR | 11 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 13, 1993 | 15 | PUNCH US | Complete any of the provided jokes in 75 words or fewer. | Dan Thomas | JOK | 12 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 20, 1993 | 16 | I AM ADDICTED TO AN ASININE CONTEST… | Come up with sleazy new topics for the daytime talks. | Kitty Thuermer Mike Tidwell | CUL | 13 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 27, 1993 | 17 | REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM | Come up with an easy way to reduce the federal deficit, in 20 words or fewer. | Steven King | POL | 14 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
July 4, 1993 | 18 | PUNCH US IN THE EAR | Give us a motto for The Washington Post. | Susan Wenger | WAS | 15 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
July 11, 1993 | 19 | A RECYCLED IDEA THAT WAS NONE TOO GOOD TO BEGIN WITH | Alter a well-known phrase or name by deleting, adding or changing only one letter, and then supply a definition for what results. | Joseph H. Engel David J. Zvijac | LET WOR | 16 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
July 18, 1993 | 20 | COMIC RELIEF | Rewrite 60-year-old cartoons, filling in your own balloons, to make them funnier and more timely. | Tom Gearty | CAR | 17 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
July 25, 1993 | 21 | A SO-SO CONTEST | Describe somebody--or something--through exaggerated comparison. | Chuck Smith | 18 | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
August 1, 1993 | 22 | STUMP US | Come up with slogans for the 1996 presidential campaign. | R. Sharp | POL | 19 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
August 8, 1993 | 23 | HAPPY ENDINGS | Modernize an old quote or expression by altering its ending. | Pamela Zilly | CUL | 20 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
August 15, 1993 | 24 | ASK BACKWARDS | You are on "Jeopardy!" Those are the answers. What are the questions? | Jacob Weinstein | JEO | 21 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
August 22, 1993 | 25 | CAPTION CRUNCH | Write a caption for any of these photos. | Fritz Stolzenback | CAP | 22 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
August 29, 1993 | 26 | CASTING ABOUT FOR AN IDEA | Name a political person (past or present) and the TV or movie role in which he or she could have been cast. | John Mazza | MOV POL TEL | 23 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 5, 1993 | 27 | IT'S THE EPONYMY, STUPID | Coin an eponym, a word or figure of speech based on the name of a famous person. You must define the word, and, if you wish, use it in a sentence. | Sharon Kuykendall | CUL | 24 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 12, 1993 | 28 | MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF INVENTION | Propose some drastic change in government to help the economy or otherwise improve the quality of life in America. | E. Gaston | POL | 25 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 19, 1993 | 29 | AD NAUSEAM | Come up with an unfortunate slogan for any real product, service, or organization. | Tom Gearty | SLO | 26 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 26, 1993 | 30 | THE RORSCHACH OF THE CROWD | Interpret any of the provided ink blots. | Steven King | ROR | 27 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
October 3, 1993 | 31 | INVITATION TO A DUAL | Divide the world into two types of people. | Chris Rooney | 28 | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
October 10, 1993 | 32 | FATAL ART ATTACK | In 50 words or fewer, describe a performance art concept that might get public funding. Winners will be audacious enough to seem like art, but pretentious enough to seem to have a social "message." | Tom Gearty | ART | 29 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
October 17, 1993 | 33 | POST IMPRESSIONISM | Give us the opening lines of a big story from American history as it might have been written by someone whose work appears in The Washington Post. Maximum 100 words. You must choose one of three news stories: "Lincoln Assassinated," "Stock Market Crashes" or "Man Walks on Moon." | Stephen Licht | HIS | 30 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
October 24, 1993 | 34 | INSPECT A GADGET | What do these machines do? | Reef family | CAR | 31 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
October 31, 1993 | 35 | LIGHT AT THE END? | Tell the federal government what is should do with the 14-mile-long, 15-foot-diameter sausage-shaped tunnel it dug near Waxahachie, Tex., for the Superconducting Super Collider project that was scrapped by Congress last week. | Michael Sweet | POL | 32 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
November 7, 1993 | 36 | SCAM ON WRY | Come up with a prank you can play, for fun, profit, or deliverance of a well-needed comeuppance. | Kirby Lamb | 33 | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
November 14, 1993 | 37 | A STATE OF DISGRACE? | Propose any of the following for D.C.: A State Name, A State Flower, A State Bird, A State Slogan, A State Capital, A Governor, An Insulting State Joke. | Peggy Hyde Gene Lawhun | WAS | 34 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
November 21, 1993 | 38 | ASK BACKWARDS II | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions? | Tom Meyer | JEO | 35 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
November 28, 1993 | 39 | WAY OUTSIDE THE LINES | Name a new crayon color for the 1990s, with a description. | Paul Styrene | CUL | 36 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
December 5, 1993 | 40 | NOT WRONG. JUST INCORRECT. | What's next on the political correctness agenda? | Steven King | CUL | 37 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
December 12, 1993 | 41 | READ-END COLLUSION | Design a Style Invitational bumper sticker to be awarded to all Honorable Mentions. | Stephen Dudzik | BUM | 38 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
December 19, 1993 | 42 | HEY, IT COULD WE WORSE | There are worse things in life than the Washington Redskins. Just tell us what they are. | Mike Thring | WAS | 39 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
December 26, 1993 | 43 | GOOD LORD! | What does God look like? | Tom Gearty | REL | 40 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
January 2, 1994 | 44 | ADVERB PUBLICITY | Write us a Tom Swiftly or two, updated for the '90s. Each must include a reference to a famous person or institution. | St. Andrew's Episcopal School Mrs. Airey's English class | WOR CUL | 41 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
January 9, 1994 | 45 | INVITATION TO A DUAL, II. | Deliver us a Good News-Bad News scenarios. | Linda K. Malcolm | 42 | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
January 16, 1994 | 46 | WE WANT STUPID ENTRIES ONLY | Make up a sentence that, were it not for this contest, would never be uttered. | Thomas Edward Knibb | STY | 43 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
January 23, 1994 | 47 | CAN YOU DO VERSE? | Bad Valentine's Day poetry. Any rhyme scheme, any form of literary dysfunction. | Michael Paulkovich | POE | 44 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
January 30, 1994 | 48 | SNIVEL WAR | Beg for the coveted Style Invitational T-shirts. | Daniel Riley | TSH | 45 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
February 6, 1994 | 49 | A SLALOM OCCASION | Come up with events for a Washington Olympics. They can be winter or summer sports, based on bureaucracy or other themes peculiar to Washington, and must include a brief description of the event. | Paul Styrene | WAS ATH | 46 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
February 13, 1994 | 50 | GIVE US THIS DAY | There are no holidays between Presidents' Day and Memorial Day, a cheerless run of more than three months. Let's stick one in there, somewhere. The holiday should celebrate something or someone uniquely America. Tell us the date, the name of the holiday and how it should be observed. | Laura M. Clairmont | CUL | 47 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
February 20, 1994 | 51 | CAPTION CRUNCH, VOL. II | Supply captions for any of these pictures. | Paul Kondis | CAP | 48 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
February 27, 1994 | 52 | PERJURED TESTIMONIALS | Come up with inappropriate celebrity endorsements for real products. | Chuck Smith | 49 | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 6, 1994 | 53 | CRUEL FETE | Tell us how the Invitational has changed America. | Paul Kondis | STY | 50 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 13, 1994 | 54 | ODD COUPLING | Write comical combinations of famous name, by marriage or other conceit. | Paul Sabourin | 51 |   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 20, 1994 | 55 | ESCAPE CLAUSES | Send us self-serving moral loopholes through which the enterprising 1990s transgressor can crawl. | Helen Sheingorn | 52 | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 27, 1994 | 56 | DO THE HOOKY POKEY | Come up with inventive ways to call in sick or otherwise persuade your employer you must miss a day. | E. J. Wassmer | 53 | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
April 3, 1994 | 57 | CALLING THE TOON | Who are these people, and what are they doing? | Peyton Coyner | CAR | 54 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
April 10, 1994 | 58 | PLAY IT AGAIN, DENZEL | Bring Casablanca into the 1990s. Write the opening of a plot outline, in 120 words or fewer. | David Laughton | MOV | 55 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
April 17, 1994 | 59 | A GRAVE AFFAIR | Write appropriate epitaphs for the not-yet-dead. | Ira P. Robbins | EPI | 56 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
April 24, 1994 | 60 | ASK BACKWARDS III | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | Bruce Evans | JEO | 57 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
May 1, 1994 | 61 | NO HARD FEELINGS | Fill in the balloons in these cheerful farewell panels drawn by Marc Rosenthal, the Style Invitational artist who is being replaced by Bob Staake. | Chuck Smith | CAR | 58 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
May 8, 1994 | 62 | BAD NEWS BEARERS | Come up with statements one would not want to hear from friends, relatives, service personnel, etc. | Sarah Gaymon | 59 | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
May 15, 1994 | 63 | BAD ABOUT YOU | Come up with a lame idea for a Style Invitational contest, an idea destined to create unfunny results. | Elden Carnahan | STY | 60 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE SCREW-UP Week 64 inadvertently skipped | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
May 22, 1994 | 65 | DESPERATELY SEEKING HUMOR | Write a personal ad. It may be for a celebrity or for anyone in need of adroit euphemism. | Nick Dierman | WOR | 61 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
May 29, 1994 | 66 | THE SON-OF-SMITH LAW | In 50 words or fewer, what do we do about the Chuck Smith problem? | Chuck Smith | STY | 62 |   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 5, 1994 | 67 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS | Make up the last words of famous dead people whose last words are unknown. | Peyton Coyner | EPI | 63 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 12, 1994 | 68 | GIVE US A SIGN | Come up with new astrological signs for the 1990s, together with one day's horoscope. | Christie Houser | CUL | 65 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 19, 1994 | 69 | LAYING DOWN THE LAW | Send us some exciting new principles that explain why things happen they way they happen. | Pat Scully | SCI | 66 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 26, 1994 | 70 | SOUNDS LIKE A BAD IDEA | Come up with jokes based on noises. | Chuck Smith | JOK | 67 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
July 3, 1994 | 71 | CAPTION CRUNCH III | Come up with a new, funnier caption for any picture or illustration anywhere in today's newspaper. | Richard E. Brock Ellen Meyerson | CAP WAS | 68 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
July 10, 1994 | 72 | OH, HELL | Come up with the perfect vision of Hell for a famous person, living or dead. | Jackson Bross | 69 | HTML   | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
July 17, 1994 | 73 | LUNACY | Tell us what Neil Armstrong should have said upon stepping onto the moon's surface, instead of what he did, the greatest gaffe in the history of Historic Sayings. | Stuart Segal | HIS | 70 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
July 24, 1994 | 74 | SHIRT HAPPENS | In 10 words or fewer, what should the back of the "Year 2" T-shirt say? | Cindi Rae Caron | TSH | 71 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
July 31, 1994 | 75 | CURSES! | Come up with modern maledictions in the wise and entertaining Yiddish tradition. | Joseph Romm | LAN | 72 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
August 7, 1994 | 76 | ADIOS. | Tell us, in 40 words or fewer, what is great about August in Washington. It's August, and we're out of here. | Sue Witner | WAS | 73 | HTML   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| |   | September 4, 1994 | 77 | THE RORSCHACH OF THE CROWD II | What do these ink blots mean? | Dennis Goris | ROR
| 74 | HTML   | September 11, 1994 | 78 | SEEKING SMART MORONS | Come up with an oxymoron for our times, an expression made bogus by the fact that it combines incompatible, contradictory ideas. | Jessica Mathews | L. Woodall WOR
| 75 | HTML   | September 18, 1994 | 79 | TERROR-DACTYL | Send us a double dactyl. The first line must be a nonsense phrase of five to seven syllables containing exactly two downbeats. The second line must be a name, in five to seven syllables but only two downbeats. The remaining six lines must contain four to seven syllables and two downbeats each, with Lines 4 and 8 rhyming. Somewhere in the poem, one line must consist of only one word. | Kitty Thuermer | POE
| 76 | HTML   | September 25, 1994 | 80 | NICK KNACKS | Come up with a great nickname for any contemporary celebrity. | Chuck Smith | CUL
| 77 | HTML   | October 2, 1994 | 81 | HEADS, YOU LOSE | Take any two or more headlines anywhere in today's Washington Post, and combine them to make a funnier headline. | Dave Zarrow | HEA WAS
| 78 | HTML   | October 9, 1994 | 82 | PICTURE THIS | Who are these people, and what are they doing? | Elden Carnahan | CAR
| 79 | HTML   | October 16, 1994 | 83 | BEDROOM FARCE | What questions were left out of the Great American Sex Survey? | Robb Mathews | CUL
| 80 | HTML   | October 23, 1994 | 84 | THE WASHINGTON IRVINGS | Come up with creative names for the high school football teams of real towns in America. | Karla J. Dickinson | ATH
| 81 | HTML   | October 30, 1994 | 85 | PLAY MYTHTY FOR ME | Come up with new urban myths, those vaguely believable, wildly paranoid stories that circulate by word of mouth until they are generally accepted as true. | Ben Lea | CUL
| 82 | HTML   | November 6, 1994 | 86 | EXCUSES, EXCUSES | Come up with funny excuses for various malfeasances. | Joseph Romm |
| 83 | HTML   | November 13, 1994 | 87 | WEST EASY, ANN | Come up with good things about West Virginia, in 50 words of fewer. | Dave Zarrow | POL
| 84 | HTML   | November 20, 1994 | 88 | GIVE US SOME GOOD NEWS | Come up with ways things are going to be different now that Republicans have ascended to power. | Arthur Adams | POL
| 85 | HTML   | November 27, 1994 | 89 | CHILD'S PLAY | Come up with bad ideas for new toys for the Christmas season. | Paul A. Alter | CUL
| 86 | HTML   | December 4, 1994 | 90 | BILL US NOW | Come up with funny legislation based on the names of the 102 freshman congresspersons. | Jerry Pohl | LEG
| 87 | HTML   | December 11, 1994 | 91 | ASK BACKWARD IV | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | Chuck Smith | JEO
| 88 | HTML   | December 18, 1994 | 92 | PLOTBOILERS | Tell us what excerpts from celebrities' novels might look like. | Robert Pack | LIT
| 89 | HTML   | December 25, 1994 | 93 | I WANT THE MONGOOSE | Tell us, in 50 words or fewer, why you must have this elegant piece of taxidermy featuring a snake being killed by a mongoose. | Judith Daniel | STY
| 90 | HTML   | January 1, 1995 | 94 | WEEKS 1-93 | Come op with a great answer to any previous Style Invitational contest, an answer you may have thought of after the contest was over. | Gary McKethan | PRE
| 91 | HTML  | January 8, 1995 | 95 | HOW'S THAT AGAIN? | Take any headline appearing anywhere in The Post this week and completely rewrite the first lines of the story to put a different, unintended spin on it. | Elden Carnahan | HEA
| 92 |   | January 15, 1995 | 96 | STICK IT IN YOUR ERA | Come up with a catch phrase for the 1990s. | Joseph Romm | CUL
| 93 | HTML  | January 22, 1995 | 97 | NEWTONIAN PHILOSOPHY | Come up with more Newt Gingrich philosophy to explain the differences between men and women, Democrats and Republicans, dogs and cats, whatever needs explaining. | Greg Arnold | POL
| 94 | HTML  | January 29, 1995 | 98 | YOUR CHEATIN' ART | Come up with titles for country music songs featuring any one or more of the following themes: cheatin', thievin', drinkin', truckin', lovin' or dogs. | Anthony Roisman | Lois Roisman MUS
| 95 | HTML  | February 5, 1995 | 99 | WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PICTURES? | What's wrong with these pictures? | George Wills | CAR
| 96 | HTML  | February 12, 1995 | 100 | THE JOKE'S ON YOU | Retell any of these jokes as they would be told by some celebrity, living or dead. | Paul Kondis | JOK
| 97 | HTML  | February 19, 1995 | 101 | [deliberately left blank] | [deliberately left blank] | Allan Grady |
| 98 |   | February 26, 1995 | 102 | HELP! I'M A PRISONER IN THIS CONTEST | Come up with fortune cookie messages that you would love to see, but never will. | Jon Patrick Smith |
| 99 | HTML  | March 5, 1995 | 103 | SEND HELP. | Come up with ways to raise some badly needed cash for the District of Columbia. | Jim Martin | WAS
| 100 | HTML  | YEAR 3 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 12, 1995 | 104 | HERE, DOGGEREL | Create poems so bad they thud. The first line must be a name. The second line can be as long or as short as you wish. The third line must sound the same as the first line, using the name as a verb or some other part of speech. | Jessica Mathews | POE
| 101 |   | March 19, 1995 | 105 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? | Come up with Good Ideas and then convert them to Bad Ideas through slight changes in wording. | Ira Moskowitz |
| 102 | HTML  | March 26, 1995 | 106 | DRAWING CONCLUSIONS | Who are these people, and what are they doing? | Pete Clime | CAR
| 103 | HTML   | April 2, 1995 | 107 | CLUSTERS' LAST STAND | Take an actual star cluster, redraw the lines into a different image, and give it a new name. | Joseph Romm | David Smith SCI
| 104 | HTML  | April 9, 1995 | 108 | NEAR MISSES | Come up with the first drafts of great lines in history, entertainment or literature. | Joseph Romm | HIS CUL LIT
| 105 | HTML  | April 16, 1995 | 109 | SEND US YOUR MAIL PARTS | We're looking for funny example of pidgin English that try to say one thing, but actually say something quite different. | Cissie Owen | LAN
| 106 | HTML  | April 23, 1995 | 110 | DO NOT INHALE THIS PAGE | Come up with absurd warning labels that might be found on common products. | Elden Carnahan | CUL
| 107 | HTML  | April 30, 1995 | 111 | ASK BACKWARDS V | Here are the answers. What are the questions? | Tom Witte | JEO
| 108 | HTML  | May 7, 1995 | 112 | POOP FICTION | Come up with the opening lines of a book so bad it will compel you to stop reading immediately; maximum 50 words. | Kevin Mellema | LIT
| 109 | HTML  | May 14, 1995 | 113 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Take a list of horses nominated to the Triple Crown races this year, choose any two, and propose a name for their offspring. | Tom Witte | HOR
| 110 | HTML  | May 21, 1995 | 114 | THE JOKE'S ON YOU | Come up with jokes to culminate in any of these six punch lines. | Greg Arnold | Russell Beland Jerry Pannullo JOK
| 111 | HTML  | May 28, 1995 | 115 | THE MNEMONIC PLAGUE | Come up with new mnemonic devices to remember complicated lists. | Jacob Weinstein | WOR
| 112 | HTML  | June 4, 1995 | 116 | WRITE PURE POETRY | Write a complete sentence using only the letters contained on the top row of a typewriter. Alternatively, you can use the letters of the first four lines of the standard eye chart. | Jennifer Hart | LET
| 113 | HTML  | June 11, 1995 | 117 | GIVE 'EM HELOISE | Come up with a tribute to Heloise, that queen of inanely creative recycling. | Peyton Coyner | Gene Van Pelt CUL
| 114 | HTML  | June 18, 1995 | 118 | WEAK 118 | Take any photo caption or headline appearing anywhere in today's Post and alter its meaning by adding, deleting, or changing one letter. | Elden Carnahan | CAP HEA WAS
| 115 |   | June 25, 1995 | 119 | MUZAK TO OUR EAR | Come up with unfortunate Muzak songs to hear on the while on hold. You can use either a song title or a lyric. | Howard Tenenbaum | MUS
| 116 | HTML  | July 2, 1995 | 120 | SIMILE OUTRAGEOUS | Come up with inept analogies, rotten comparisons as literary device. | Jeffrey Carl | ANL
| 117 | HTML  | July 9, 1995 | 121 | IT'S NO USE | Come up with useless products. | Russell Beland | BUS
| 118 | HTML  | July 16, 1995 | 122 | THE UNKINDEST CUTE OF ALL | Come up with a new story line for "Peanuts", some plot development of new character that will put the strip back on the road to relevance. | Sarah Gaymon | COM
| 119 | HTML  | July 23, 1995 | 123 | WHY IS POOP FUNNY? | Come up with creative answers to any of the five questions above that might be asked by a 5-year-old. | Jill Gross |
| 120 | HTML   | July 30, 1995 | 124 | SPOON-FEED US. | Come up with spoonerisms, expressions based on the transposition of the initial sounds of two paired words. | Steven Papier | LET
| 121 |   | August 6, 1995 | 125 | ASK BACKWARD VI | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | Elden Carnahan | JEO
| 122 | HTML  | August 13, 1995 | 126 | EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' | What are these people, etc., saying or thinking? | Peyton Coyner | CAR
| 123 | HTML  | August 20, 1995 | 127 | GADGET IF YOU CAN | Choose one or more of these devices and describe their use. | Kevin P. Riley | CAR
| 124 | HTML  | August 27, 1995 | 128 | LIKE, DUH | Come up with snappy answers to stupid questions. | Phil Plait |
| 125 | HTML  | September 3, 1995 | 129 | REMAKE US HAPPY | Come up with alternative story lines to movie titles, new or old. | Sarah Gaymon | Chuck Smith Tom Witte MOV
| 126 | HTML  | September 10, 1995 | 130 | NICELY STATED | Create a fictional city to be humorously paired with a real state abbreviation. | Tommy Litz | POL
| 127 | HTML  | September 17, 1995 | 131 | DROODLEYSQUAT | Come up with "droodles," simple geometric drawings with funny explanations. | Sally Booher | ART
| 128 | HTML  | September 24, 1995 | 132 | GIVE US THE BACKS OFF OUR SHIRTS. | What should our loser's T-shirt say on the back? Your goal is to somehow capture the spirit of the contest. | George C. Montgomery | TSH
| 129 | HTML  | October 1, 1995 | 133 | LIKE, WOW. | Come up with funny analogies. | Michael Connaghan | ANL
| 130 | HTML  | October 8, 1995 | 134 | A SIMPLE CLERIHEW ERROR | Revive clerihews. A clerihew is a biographical poem in four lines divided into tow rhyming couplets. The rhyme scene is aa bb. The first line of the clerihew must contain the name of the subject of the poem. The lines must be of disparate meter, the clunkier the better. | Jerry Belenker | POE
| 131 | HTML  | October 15, 1995 | 135 | JERRY-BUILT SOLUTIONS | Come up with Seinfeld-isms: whiny, quirky musings on little questions of life. | Russell Beland |
| 132 | HTML  | October 22, 1995 | 136 | NEW END IN SIGHT | Come up with new endings to make literary classics more suitable for Hollywood in the 1990s. | Jerry Podlesak | MOV
| 133 | HTML  | October 29, 1995 | 137 | VELVIS LIVES | Come up with a title and/or art gallery blurb for this velvet Elvis painting. | John Rather | ART
| 134 | HTML  | November 5, 1995 | 138 | LIST BUT NOT LEAST | Come up with Top-10-style lists for any of the above four subjects. | Fred Dawson | CUL
| 135 | HTML  | November 12, 1995 | 139 | EMPLOYMENT LINES | Come up with jobs that make even your crummy job seem good. | Virginia Maggi | BUS
| 136 | HTML  | November 19, 1995 | 140 | WHAT IF YOU GIVE IT A TRY? | Come up "What-If" scenarios and logical outcomes. | Russell Beland | HIS
| 137 | HTML  | November 26, 1995 | 141 | ASK BACKWARD VII | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | Mark Goldenberg | JEO
| 138 | HTML  | December 3, 1995 | 142 | EXHIBITING BAD TENDENCIES | Come up with the winner of next year's Turner Prize, which says its aim is to expand ideas of what is art. | Fred Dawson | ART
| 139 | HTML  | December 10, 1995 | 143 | IT'S MY PARODY (& I'LL TRY IF I WANT TO) | Rewrite any common jingle of theme song in the style of famous writer. | David Smith | POE
| 140 | HTML   | December 17, 1995 | 144 | JUST REBUS ALONE | Come up with a rebus, a phrase or sentence composed of letters, pictures, and symbols. Your entry must contain at least two pictures or illustrations from today's Washington Post. | Jonathan Paul | WAS
| 141 | HTML  | December 24, 1995 | 145 | LOOIE, LOOIE | Come up with paired, themed ladies' room and men's room signs for various types of public places. | Susan Reese | CUL
| 142 | HTML  | December 31, 1995 | 146 | IT'S LIKE THIS | Produce an A and B to complete the expression "A makes about as much sense as B." | Alan Evans | WOR
| 143 | HTML  | January 7, 1996 | 147 | JUST FOR LIFFS | Come up original liffs, which identify a familiar, tantalizing concept with a word to define, it pairs it with a perfectly good by underutilized words that just loafs around on maps and street signs. | Dave Harstad | WOR
| 144 | HTML   | January 14, 1996 | 148 | RORSCHACH OF THE CROWD IV | Interpret these ink blots. | Jennifer Hart | ROR
| 145 | HTML  | January 21, 1996 | 149 | O, NO! | Come up with a palindrome, a line that reads the same backward and forward, and then use it as a punchline to a joke. | Dave Ferry | WOR
| 146 | HTML  | January 28, 1996 | 150 | TRIAL BALLOONS | What are the people saying? | Rahul Simha | CAR
| 147 | HTML  | February 4, 1996 | 151 | STRIP MINING | Come up with a concept for a new, controversial strip to replace an existing one in The Post. | Joseph Romm | COM WAS
| 148 | HTML  | February 11, 1996 | 152 | WE ARE CURIOUS (YELLOW) | Take any headline in today's Washington Post and rewrite it in tabloid fashion so the story seems a lot more scandalous and/or lurid than it is. | Mike Hammer | HEA WAS CUL
| 149 | HTML  | February 18, 1996 | 153 | STUMP US | Complete this sentence, "I should be elected President of the United States because…" and launch your campaign. | Dan Kravitz | POL
| 150 | HTML  | February 25, 1996 | 154 | ENTER LAUGHING | Make up a knock-knock joke. The subject of the third line must be something crude, silly, or profound. | Kevin Cuddihy | JOK
| 151 | HTML  | March 3, 1996 | 155 | COMPARISON SHOPPING | Explain the difference between any two of the above items. | Chuck Smith | DIF
| 152 | HTML  | YEAR 4 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 10, 1996 | 156 | HYPHEN THE TERRIBLE | Create new word by combining the first half of a hyphenated word with the second half of a hyphenated word. Both words must appear in the same story anywhere in today's Washington Post. Each entry must provide a definition for the newly created word. | Jean Sorensen | HYP WAS
| 153 | HTML  | March 17, 1996 | 157 | WARNING SIGNS | Complete any of these "you might be about to" warning sentences. | Stephen Breton |
| 154 | HTML  | March 24, 1996 | 158 | SO SUE US | Come up with frivolous lawsuits. | Sue Lin Chong | CUL
| 155 | HTML  | March 31, 1996 | 159 | ODDBALLS | Which item in each series does not belong? Explain your answer. | Christine Jackson |
| 156 |   | April 7, 1996 | 160 | SEEKING WISE GUYS | Come up with cool new bad-guy terms. | Moe Hammond | WOR
| 157 | HTML  | April 14, 1996 | 161 | CAPITOL MISTAKES | Come up with very, very bad advice for first-time visitors to Washington. | Phil Plait | WAS
| 158 |   | April 21, 1996 | 162 | MAY WE HAVE YOUR PRETENSION, PLEASE? | Come up with the most pretentious original sentence possible. | Tommy Litz |
| 159 | HTML  | April 28, 1996 | 163 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Take the list of all 1996 Triple Crown nominees, couple up any two of them, and propose an appropriate name for their hypothetical foal. The foal's name must fit in no more than 18 characters, including spaces. | Russell Beland | HOR
| 160 | HTML  | May 5, 1996 | 164 | MEAN MEANINGS | Translate things politicians say into what they really mean. | M. Schmidtman | Tom Witte POL
| 161 | HTML  | May 12, 1996 | 165 | WHEEL OF TORTURE | Complete any of the provided "Wheel of Fortune" phrases. | Sarah Gaymon | WOR
| 162 | HTML  | May 19, 1996 | 166 | DOO WAH DOODY | We are looking for really bad lyrics to real rock songs. Your lyrics must be from a reasonably popular song, and you must include the name of the singer or songwriter. | Carolyn Armstrong | Scott Barney Don Beale Dave Ferry Jane Hanna Jessica Mathews Dean Meservy Arthur J. Murphy Steve Rouzer Sandy Tenenbaum Jeff Wadler Pam Wadler POE MUS
| 163 | HTML  | May 26, 1996 | 167 | CRAPSEY | Resurrect the "cinquain," a long-deceased poetic form, poems so ickily precocious and pretentious they make haiku look like Kipling. There are five lines, the first containing two syllables, the second containing four syllables, the third six, the fourth eight and the last, with grave finality and thunderous drama, only two. Your subject matter must be suitable for the 1990s. | Christine Tabbert | POE
| 164 | HTML  | June 2, 1996 | 168 | LICENSE TO CARRY A PUN | Come up with original jokes like those provided. | Dave Zarrow | JOK
| 165 | HTML  | June 9, 1996 | 169 | DIFF'RENT JOKES | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | David Smith | DIF
| 166 | HTML  | June 16, 1996 | 170 | THE ELEMENTS OF SMILE | Why are these people smiling? | Ned Bent | CAR
| 167 | HTML  | June 23, 1996 | 171 | ON SECOND THOUGHT | Ideas that never got off the drawing board, for good reason. | Jonathan Paul |
| 168 | HTML  | June 30, 1996 | 172 | POEDTRY | An entire poetic form, making its global debut in the Style Invitational. The first line must contain only six words of one syllable each; the second line, three words of two syllables each; the third line, two words of three syllables each, and the final line a single word of six syllables. At least two lines must rhyme. The general subject matter should be mundane. | Roger L. Browdy | POE
| 169 | HTML  | July 7, 1996 | 173 | DEAD RECKONING | Propose a question that might be asked by a living celebrity to a famous dead person. You must name the living person, name the dead person, and tell us the question. | Ken Kaufman | CUL
| 170 | HTML  | July 14, 1996 | 174 | THE EDGE OF MIGHT | Complete any of the four provided "you might" phrases. | Jon Miller | Brian Thurber
| 171 | HTML  | July 21, 1996 | 175 | FOSSIL FOOLS | What would aliens mistakenly conclude about us from any of the provided items? | Art Grinath | SCI
| 172 | HTML  | July 28, 1996 | 176 | WRITE IN THE KISSER | In the style of any famous author, write a description of any one of these people: Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Prince Charles or Sylvester Stallone. | Kitty Thuermer |
| 173 | HTML  | August 4, 1996 | 177 | SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE | Tell us what any of the provided sounds are. | Art Grinath |
| 174 | HTML  | August 11, 1996 | 178 | DEEP THROATS | Come up with Deep Thoughts, in the style of Jack Handey of "Saturday Night Live." A Deep Thought is a short, simple, seemingly inspirational observation that winds up being cynical, ironic, or just plain weird. | Joseph Romm |
| 175 | HTML  | August 18, 1996 | 179 | A CLOCKWORK, UM, UM, ... ER | Write single sentences containing no fewer than three examples of rhyming slang. | Roy Ashley | Russell Beland Kevin Cuddihy Richard DeMello Stephen Dudzik Tom Green Mark Greenblatt Tommy Litz Jonathan Paul POE
| 176 | HTML  | August 25, 1996 | 180 | WHEN IN DOUBT, PUN | Take any headline in today's Post and improve it by somehow turning it into a pun. | Jennifer Hart | Kate Renner HEA WAS
| 177 | HTML  | September 1, 1996 | 181 | YOU CAN TAKE IT TO DEBUNK | Take a common slogan or saying and prove it wrong with at least one example. | Chuck Smith | SLO
| 178 | HTML  | September 8, 1996 | 182 | CAN YOU STOP THIS? | Come up with a conversation stopper, a line likely to end all further discourse, perhaps even empty a room. | Tom Henry |
| 179 | HTML  | September 15, 1996 | 183 | COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG II | Create hawkers' rhymes for modern-day occupations like lobbyists, lawyers, talk show hosts, actuaries, etc., at a maximum of four lines. It must contain at least one rhyme. | Elden Carnahan | POE
| 180 | HTML  | September 22, 1996 | 184 | ED ANGUISH | Create an argument on some social issue, in 75 words or fewer, taking an extreme liberal view. | John Kammer | CUL
| 181 | HTML  | September 29, 1996 | 185 | WONDERLUST | Come up with replacements for the Seven Wonders of the World. To qualify, an object must really exist, and be manmade and, in some way, awesome. | Don Maclean | HIS
| 182 | HTML  | October 6, 1996 | 186 | CALLING THE TOON | Who are these people? What are they doing? | Philip Vitale | CAR
| 183 | HTML  | October 13, 1996 | 187 | RACE TO THE FINISH LINE | In 75 words or fewer, continue in a productive fashion the story line of the provided real first lines of famous literary works. | Jonathan Paul | Susan Reese LIT
| 184 | HTML  | October 20, 1996 | 188 | BLANKETY BLANKS | Complete any of the above sentences, substituting your own phrases for the well-known omitted words. | Joe Shepherd | WOR
| 185 | HTML  | October 27, 1996 | 189 | YOU CAN PRANK ON IT | Come up with a hoax or prank that begins with any of the provided scenarios. | Paul Kondis | Gary Lefkowitz
| 186 | HTML  | November 3, 1996 | 190 | OFFICE YOU CAN'T REFUSE | Come up with a Principle for the Workplace. | John Kammer | BUS
| 187 | HTML  | November 10, 1996 | 191 | GOING THROUGH A PHRASE | Come up with phrase for an American English phrasebook that would provide no practical help whatsoever to a foreigner tyring to get along in the United States. | Jacob Harley | CUL
| 188 | HTML  | November 17, 1996 | 192 | HILL'S BILLS | Come up with bills any of the new members of Congress might jointly sponsor. | Tommy Litz | LEG
| 189 | HTML  | November 24, 1996 | 193 | ASK BACKWARDS VIII | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions? | John O'Brien | Chuck Smith JEO
| 190 | HTML  | December 1, 1996 | 194 | ADVICE SQUAD | Answer any of the provided questions unwisely. | Art Grinath |
| 191 | HTML  | December 8, 1996 | 195 | THE MARTHIAN CHRONICLES | Come up with items for Martha Stewart's December-January calendar of projects. | Stephen Dudzik | CUL
| 192 | HTML  | December 15, 1996 | 196 | YOU MUST BE MAD | Come up with a contemporary Scene We'd Like to See. | Art Grinath | Bob Kulawiec
| 193 | HTML  | December 22, 1996 | 197 | DAVE'S WORLD | Make David Twenhafel laugh. Any sort of delightful drollery or amusing witticism will do, so long as it is not the sort of lowbrow fare we usually favor. | Jennifer Hart | STY
| 194 | HTML  | December 29, 1996 | 198 | YOU MUST BE MAD II | Come up with proposals designed to infuriate special interest groups. | Bob Sorensen | POL CUL
| 195 | HTML  | January 5, 1997 | 199 | WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | Rob Klotz | DIF
| 196 | HTML   | January 12, 1997 | 200 | CAPTION CRUNCH IV | Supply a new caption to any photograph appearing anywhere in today's Post, to make it funnier. | Jessica Mathews | CAP
| 197 | HTML  | January 19, 1997 | 201 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE | Come up with a new element and its symbol, and provides a brief description of its chemical or physical properties. | Irwin Singer | SCI
| 198 | HTML  | January 26, 1997 | 202 | THE ELEMENTS OF SMILE | Interpret any of the provided computer emoticons, or "smileys." | Alex Neill |
| 199 | HTML   | February 2, 1997 | 203 | CAN IT GET MUCH VERSE? | Create Very Bad Poetry, containing banalities masquerading as profundities, overstretch metaphors, etc. Special attention should be paid to dreadful syntax and painful rhyme | Charlie Steinhice | POE
| 200 | HTML  | February 9, 1997 | 204 | DOUBLE EXPRESSO | Take any well-known colorful expression, and modernize it. | Maja Keech | CUL
| 201 | HTML  | February 16, 1997 | 205 | SOME PIG | Beg for the prize: convince us why you, and you alone, deserve to get it. | Jon Williams | STY
| 202 | HTML  | February 23, 1997 | 206 | HYPHEN THE TERRIBLE II | Create a new word by combining the first half of any hyphenated word in today's newspaper with the second half of any other hyphenated word elsewhere in the same story, and supply a definition. | Tom Witte | HYP
| 203 |   | March 2, 1997 | 207 | TIED TO BE FIT | Each of the eight provided items is related, in some fashion, to one or more of the provided individuals. You make the connections. | David Genser | CUL
| 204 | HTML  | YEAR 5 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 9, 1997 | 208 | SEND IN THE CLONES | Suggest question a commission to investigate the moral, legal and practical question raised by cloning might consider. | Joan Schloo | POL REL SCI
| 205 | HTML  | March 16, 1997 | 209 | WE NEED SOME SEASONING | Come up with the first signs of spring in Washington. | Tommy Litz | WAS
| 206 | HTML  | March 23, 1997 | 210 | RANDOM MEMO | Supply embarrassing "While You Were Out" phone messages that might be left for famous people, in plain sight, while they are away from their desks. | Art Grinath | CUL
| 207 | HTML  | March 30, 1997 | 211 | GIVE US THE BACKS OFF YOUR SHIRTS | Design the back of the fourth Style Invitational T-shirt, with anything that captures the transcendent indignity of this contest. | Craig Ulander | TSH
| 208 | HTML  | April 6, 1997 | 212 | DUMB AS THE POST | Come up with even stupider crimes than those committed by Montgomery County's "gentleman burglars." | Sandra Hull |
| 209 | HTML  | April 13, 1997 | 213 | A SIN OF THE TIMES | Submit campaign or other political practices that would be illegal and/or unethical. | Bill Moulden | POL
| 210 | HTML  | April 20, 1997 | 214 | ASK BACKWARDS IX | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are your answers. What are the questions? | Greg Arnold | JEO
| 211 | HTML  | April 27, 1997 | 215 | SON OF A PITCH | Write lavish blurbs in 50 words or fewer so some sucker will want to pay a lot of money for the provided items. | Jerry Pannullo | WOR
| 212 | HTML  | May 4, 1997 | 216 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Pair up any two of the 400-plus horses who have qualified for this year's Triple Crown races, and name their foal, in a maximum of 18 characters, including spaces. | Larry Marcus | HOR
| 213 | HTML  | May 11, 1997 | 217 | NO QUESTION ABOUT IT | Come up with truly stupid questions. | Edith Eisenberg | QUE
| 214 | HTML  | May 18, 1997 | 218 | CALLING THE TOON | Who are these people? What are they doing? | Dave Yourell | CAR
| 215 | HTML   | May 25, 1997 | 219 | VERBOSITY | Come up with new, obnoxious, self-conscious faux verbs and use them in sentences. | Russell Beland | WOR
| 216 | HTML  | June 1, 1997 | 220 | RSVP | Provide and answer to any of the dumb questions from Week 217. | David Kleinbard | QUE
| 217 | HTML  | June 8, 1997 | 221 | SONG SUNG BROWN | Pick any song, pick a well-known line, and give us the discarded first draft. If it is part of a rhyme, you must maintain the rhyme. | Lily Fu Swenson | POE MUS
| 218 | HTML  | June 15, 1997 | 222 | TRIP DEUCES | Take the two subject listings at the top of any page of the Yellow Pages and create a dictionary definition for the compound word they form. | Robin Grove | WOR
| 219 | HTML  | June 22, 1997 | 223 | ATTEMPTING REENTRY | Submit entries to any past contest, so long as you never submitted them before. | Chuck Smith | PRE
| 220 | HTML  | June 29, 1997 | 224 | DRAWING CONCLUSIONS | What is wrong with these pictures? | Dan Kaplan | CAR
| 221 | HTML   | July 6, 1997 | 225 | WE RESPECTfully decline to publish any dumb entries by YOU. | Come up with signs for a T-shirt of a bumper sticker that hide the real message in tiny type. | Dan Kaplan | Tom Witte TSH
| 222 | HTML  | July 13, 1997 | 226 | GOING WITHOUT | Complete some variation of the expression "An A without a B is like a C without a D." | Jonathan Paul | WOR
| 223 | HTML  | July 20, 1997 | 227 | WILD PITCHES | Come up worthy successors to Joe Camel. Name the product, and describe the totally inappropriate cartoon character that would be created represent it. | Dave Ferry | CAR
| 224 | HTML  | July 27, 1997 | 228 | MAKE MY DAY | Supply advice to today's spoiled kids about how bad things were when we were growing up. | Barry Blyveis | CUL
| 225 | HTML  | August 3, 1997 | 229 | WE CAN'T HEAR YOU | Supply an example for any of the five "Things you don't want to hear" categories provided. | Jennifer Hart |
| 226 | HTML  | August 10, 1997 | 230 | TALES FROM THE CRYPTOGRAM | Take any proper noun--a person, a book, a movie, whatever--and create for it an appropriate cryptogram. | Don Juran | LET
| 227 | HTML  | August 17, 1997 | 231 | GIVING QUARTER | Suggest a motto for the "tails" side of any of the state-themed quarters. | Barry Blyveis | SLO
| 228 | HTML  | August 24, 1997 | 232 | PRIMAL URGES | Update, for the millennium, the old "A is for Apple" reading primer. An entry must include the four letters in one of these blocks: A-D, E-H, I-L, M-P, Q-T, U-Z. | Jacob Weinstein | LET
| 229 | HTML  | August 31, 1997 | 233 | SEEKING PARODY | Take any paragraph appearing on Page A1 of today's Washington Post, and rewrite it in the style of any famous writer. | Phil Frankenfeld | WAS LIT
| 230 | HTML  | September 7, 1997 | 234 | THE JOKE'S ON YOU | Complete any of the provided jokes as it would be told by someone famous, living or dead. | Stephen A. Simon | JOK
| 231 | HTML  | September 14, 1997 | 235 | ROOTS | Make up historical explanations--they should be vaguely plausible--for the etymology of any term you wish. The term should be the punch line. | Sue Lin Chong | HIS WOR
| 232 | HTML  | September 21, 1997 | 236 | CALLING THE TOON. | What is happening here? | Hank Wallace | CAR
| 233 | HTML   | September 28, 1997 | 237 | ASK BACKWARD | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | Bob Dalton | JEO
| 234 | HTML  | October 5, 1997 | 238 | CHALK IT UP TO STUPIDITY | Propose apologies for yourself in the style of Bart Simpson writing on his blackboard. | Jennifer Hart |
| 235 | HTML  | October 12, 1997 | 239 | NAME THAT TOON | Send us the captions for cartoons not provided. | Jennifer Hart | CAR
| 236 | HTML   | October 19, 1997 | 240 | ADDING INSULT | Come up with elegant insults directed at any famous person, living or dead, such as the real encomiums above. | Phil Frankenfeld |
| 237 | HTML  | October 26, 1997 | 241 | CAN YOU BEAT THIS? | Come up with headlines describing the defeat of one pro team by another. | David Genser | HEA
| 238 | HTML  | November 2, 1997 | 242 | SACRED COW PIES | Take cheap shots at sacred institutions only, places and things that are so noble and wholesome they are beyond reproach, from among the items provided. | Charlie Steinhice | POL CUL REL
| 239 |   | November 9, 1997 | 243 | VERSE THAN EVER | Write a rhyming poem of two to eight lines as a tribute to someone famous who died in 1997, the more awful the better. We will particularly value rhymes that thud, and extremes of emotion and sentiment. | Charlie Steinhice | POE
| 240 | HTML  | November 16, 1997 | 244 | HYPHEN THE TERRIBLE | Coin new words, and provide a definition, by combining the first half of a hyphenated word for any story in today's Post with the second half of another hyphenated word in the same story. | Robin Grove | HYP
| 241 | HTML  | November 23, 1997 | 245 | LIKE FUN | Complete any of the provided "A is like B because" sentences. | Dave Ferry | WOR
| 242 | HTML  | November 30, 1997 | 246 | OUR OWN DEVICES | What do these contraptions do? Tell us in 50 words or fewer. | Chuck Smith | CAR
| 243 | HTML   | December 7, 1997 | 247 | BLACK AND WHITE AND WED ALL OVER | Propose the marriage of any two people, and the song they should not play at their wedding. The people must be a man and a woman. | Chuck Smith | MUS
| 244 | HTML  | December 14, 1997 | 248 | STICKER SCHLOCK | Come up with a message for our new, mildly sought-after Style Invitational bumper sticker, something that summarizes the grandeur and dignity of this stupid contest. | Brian Broadus | BUM
| 245 | HTML  | December 21, 1997 | 249 | BAD NEWS, GOOD NEWS | Supply a silver lining for any scourge or social ill facing America or the world. | Tom Witte | CUL POL
| 246 | HTML  | December 28, 1997 | 250 | OH, GREAT | Complete the sentence "Wouldn't it be great if …" | Barry Blyveis | WOR
| 247 | HTML  | January 4, 1998 | 251 | QUOTH THE MAVEN | Take any famous line, change it by one letter only (add, subtract or change a single letter), and reattribute it. | Meredith Robinson | LET
| 248 | HTML  | January 11, 1998 | 252 | MAKE YOUR MOVIE | Propose people who were the secret inspiration for famous movies. | Charlie Steinhice | MOV
| 249 | HTML  | January 18, 1998 | 253 | IT'S A PITY | Enter any of the provided contests. Winners will be judged entirely on the basis of how pitiful an attempt at humor the entry is. | David Sherman | PRE
| 250 | HTML   | January 25, 1998 | 254 | DOUBLE JEOPARDY! | Take any sentence appearing anywhere in today's Washington Post, and make up a question to which it could be a plausible answer. | David Genser | WAS QUE
| 251 | HTML  | February 1, 1998 | 255 | SCANDAL IN THE WIND | Each of the provided items is somehow related to the current presidential scandal. Tell us how. | Drew Knoblauch | POL
| 252 | HTML  | February 8, 1998 | 256 | THE PYLE INVITATIONAL | Come up with hip, contemporary riddles and answers. The punch line must contain a painful pun. | Dave Ferry | Chuck Smith JOK
| 253 | HTML  | February 15, 1998 | 257 | LET US PLAY | Create a game, or a prank, that can be played using any two or more of the provided objects. | Tom Witte |
| 254 | HTML  | February 22, 1998 | 258 | IT'S A BIRD. IT'S A PAIN. | Choose one or more of the provided super powers and tell us what you would do with it. | Christina Courtney |
| 255 | HTML  | March 1, 1998 | 259 | SPARE EXCHANGE, BUDDY? | Take any phone number of any business or government office in the Washington area, translate the first two digits into their constituent letters and propose any appropriate one-word exchange. | Elden Carnahan | LET POL BUS
| 256 | HTML  | YEAR 6 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 8, 1998 | 260 | IT'S A SNAP | Come up with replacements for the two hackneyed answers: "Is the Pope Catholic?" and "When Hell freezes over." | Sue Lin Chong | JOK
| 257 | HTML  | March 15, 1998 | 261 | WHAT IF YOU GIVE IT A TRY II | Alter some crucial moment in history, and then tell us the likely outcome. | Andrew B. Gibson | HIS
| 258 | HTML   | March 22, 1998 | 262 | CAMPAIGN FOR ONE | Design a line for Niels Hoven to deliver in his campaign for a student government office that will wake up a snoozing audience. | Jonathan Paul | POL
| 259 |   | March 29, 1998 | 263 | THE GAME OF THE NAME | Propose a bad name for the provided categories. | Erica Magram | WOR
| 260 | HTML   | April 5, 1998 | 264 | ASK BACKWARDS | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions? | Sue Lin Chong | JEO
| 261 | HTML   | April 12, 1998 | 265 | A SPORK OF GENIUS | Come up with new products like the spork: combinations of two existing products that work together in some special way. Name the device and explain its function. | T. J. Murphy | BUS
| 262 | HTML   | April 19, 1998 | 266 | DEFINITELY WEIRD | Take any word from the dictionary and redefine it. | Jacob Weinstein | WOR
| 263 | HTML   | April 26, 1998 | 267 | THE CONCEPT CONCEPT | Come up with a situation for a "People Unclear on the Concept" cartoon. Describe the situation and supply any necessary dialogue. | John B. Allen | CAR
| 264 | HTML   | May 3, 1998 | 268 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Take the names of this year's Triple Crown nominees, mate any two of them, a propose a name for the foal. The foal's name must be contained in 18 characters, including spaces. | Chris Kaufman | HOR
| 265 | HTML   | May 10, 1998 | 269 | SIGNS, AND THE TIMES | Come up with new, helpful signage for downtown streets. You must state the problem, and propose the sign to rectify it. | David Litman | CUL POL
| 266 | HTML  | May 17, 1998 | 270 | PALINODE--HAVE PUN, WILL TRAVEL | Write a "palinode", retracting something said in an earlier poem. Your poem must be four lines long and contain at least one rhyme. | Jon Chananie | POE
| 267 | HTML  | May 24, 1998 | 271 | YOGI BEARER | Come up with new Yogi-isms, which seem to make sense, but collapse like a souffle when you poke it a little | Phil Frankenfeld | WOR
| 268 | HTML  | May 31, 1998 | 272 | PICTURE THIS | What is happening in these cartoons? | Edward Mickolus | CAR
| 269 | HTML   | June 7, 1998 | 273 | UNSEENS WE'D LIKE TO SEE | Provide examples of any of the provided categories of thing that will never happen. | E. J. Lloyd |
| 270 | HTML  | June 14, 1998 | 274 | THE DROLL OF A LIFETIME | Be the New Yorker comics editor, and explain to readers of The Washington Post why the provided jokes are charmingly witty. | Sandra Hull | WAS
| 271 | HTML  | June 21, 1998 | 275 | THERE ONCE WAS CONTEST FROM NANTUCKET … | Write a limerick in which the first line is about someone who comes from some place in the Washington area. | Courtney Knauth | LIM WAS
| 272 | HTML  | June 28, 1998 | 276 | SPIT THE DIFFERENCE | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | Russell Beland | DIF
| 273 | HTML  | July 5, 1998 | 277 | LIFE IN THE BLURBS | Come up a simple plot summary to help attract the modern audience to any classic work of fiction. It must be literally true and defensible. | Elden Carnahan | LIT
| 274 | HTML  | July 12, 1998 | 278 | THE STALE INVITATIONAL | Begin with a word. Add, subtract or change a single letter only, and then provide a new definition. | Tom Witte | LET
| 275 | HTML  | July 19, 1998 | 279 | TREACLE-DOWN THEORY | Come up with a treacly and deeply moving piece of crap. It must somehow mine joy and goopy inspiration from the vicissitudes of life. It must also rhyme. | Niels Hoven | POE
| 276 | HTML  | July 26, 1998 | 280 | EXPRESSING IT NICELY | Come up with colorful expressions for any of the six provided activities, to make them sound a little less tawdry. | Joe Kobylski | WOR
| 277 | HTML  | August 2, 1998 | 281 | CALCULATE THE ODDS | Tell us which of the two provided items does not belong with the other two, and why. | J. Larry Schott | DIF
| 278 | HTML  | August 9, 1998 | 282 | TAKING SNIDES | Take any story anywhere in today's Post and append to it a single snide observation, concerning either the headline or the text of the story. | Ralph Scott | WAS
| 279 | HTML  | August 16, 1998 | 283 | UH-OH | Come up with "uh-oh" lines, statements that occur in the middle of a seemingly benign speech or conversation, suddenly alerting the listener that he is about to hear some bad news. | Philip Vitale |
| 280 | HTML  | August 23, 1998 | 284 | ASK BACKWARDS MCLXVII | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | Jami Cashell | JEO
| 281 | HTML  | August 30, 1998 | 285 | ELEVENIS, ANYTWO? | Take a common phrase containing a specific number, add or subtract one, and explain the revised phrase. | Joseph Romm |
| 282 | HTML  | September 6, 1998 | 286 | CLINTOONS | Make your own Clintoon, a comic strip consisting of any or all of the provided drawings. | Meg Sullivan | CAR
| 283 | HTML   | September 13, 1998 | 287 | BEFORE AND AFTERMATH | Begin with a real name, append to it a word, name or expression that completes the bridge, and finally define the resulting phrase. | Douglas Riley | WOR
| 284 | HTML  | September 20, 1998 | 288 | PICTURE THIS | What is happening in these pictures? | Jonathan Paul | CAR
| 285 | HTML   | September 27, 1998 | 289 | PLAY IT AGAIN, SHAM | Submit entries to any previous contest, ideas you might have thought of after the contest deadline had passed. | Joseph Romm | PRE
| 286 | HTML  | October 4, 1998 | 290 | THE WORLD THEORIES | Codify some of life's more populist theories. | Chuck Smith | CUL
| 287 | HTML  | October 11, 1998 | 291 | HYPHEN THE TERRIBLE | Take any story in today's paper, find a word that breaks with a hyphen at the end of a line, and combine it with the second half of different hyphenated word in the same story. Then supply a definition for the new hybrid word. | Susan Reese | HYP
| 288 | HTML  | October 18, 1998 | 292 | PAYING THE BILL | Propose appropriate punishments for President Clinton. | Art Grinath | POL
| 289 | HTML  | October 25, 1998 | 293 | THE VERSE OF AMERICA | Take any story in today's Washington Post and create a poem or song by stringing together various phrases from that story. Each phrase must be a least two words long. | Greg Arnold | POE
| 290 | HTML  | November 1, 1998 | 294 | PRODUCT LIARBILITY | Take the name of any commercial product and redefine it. | J. Larry Schott | BUS
| 291 | HTML  | November 8, 1998 | 295 | PANEL DISCUSSION | Supply the contents the missing panel in the provided cartoon strips. | David Genser | CAR
| 292 | HTML   | November 15, 1998 | 296 | BILL US LATER | Choose among the names of any of the newly elected U.S. senators or representatives and propose a bill they might sponsor. | Mike Genz | LEG
| 293 | HTML  | November 22, 1998 | 297 | FREE FOR OIL | Take any article in today's paper, and write an outraged letter to the editor about it that totally misses the point, either by misreading a word or misunderstanding the topic. | David Genser | WAS CUL POL REL
| 294 | HTML  | November 29, 1998 | 298 | THE RIGHT STUFF | Write a sentence, or phrase, or entire passage, using only your right hand on the keyboard. This means who may use no keys to the left of N, H, Y and 7. | Barbara Collier | LET
| 295 | HTML  | December 6, 1998 | 299 | ANOTHER LEFTIST RAG | Write the day's tabloid headlines with your left hand only. (This means you can use no keys to the right of 6, T, G and B.) | Eric Lenning | LET
| 296 | HTML  | December 13, 1998 | 300 | A BRAND NEW CONTEST | Come up with celebrity-brand products. | Elden Carnahan | BUS
| 297 | HTML  | December 20, 1998 | 301 | PICTURE THIS | What is happening in these cartoons? | Jonathan Paul | CAR
| 298 | HTML   | December 27, 1998 | 302 | UNSTATED TRUTHS | Come up with lines that you'll never hear the provided people say. | Beverly Miller |
| 299 | HTML  | January 3, 1999 | 303 | BOOM TIMES | Come up with old and new concerns for the baby boom generation. | Elden Carnahan | CUL
| 300 | HTML  | January 10, 1999 | 304 | TIME OF THE SIGNS | Come up with appropriate signage to appear outside any business or retail establishment in the Washington area, including government offices. | David Genser | WAS BUS POL
| 301 | HTML  | January 17, 1999 | 305 | ASK BACKWARDS CMXVI2 | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | Stephen Dudzik | JEO
| 302 | HTML  | January 24, 1999 | 306 | YOUNGIAN THERAPY | Suggest ways in which the Style Invitational or any other Washington area institution can become more relevant to younger people. | Meg Sullivan | WAS STY CUL
| 303 | HTML  | January 31, 1999 | 307 | IF YOU BOYCOTT THIS TASK / YOU WON'T WIN THE FLASK | Come up with rhyming couplets to warn us about the perils of modern life. | Howard Walderman | POE CUL
| 304 | HTML  | February 7, 1999 | 308 | GIVE US NO MO | Write an update version of those old children's selecting rhymes. Your rhyme must (1) rhyme and (2) conform, at least loosely, to a point-and-shoot cadence that permits the elimination of one item from a group. | David Genser | POE
| 305 | HTML  | February 14, 1999 | 309 | A STINKING PILE OF THESES | Write an all-purpose first line or paragraph for any doctoral dissertation, design to impress the heck out of academics. | David Genser | CUL
| 306 | HTML  | February 21, 1999 | 310 | IT'S LIKE THIS | Come up with really lame analogies. | J. F. Knowles | ANL
| 307 | HTML  | February 28, 1999 | 311 | A JERRY-BUILT CONTEST | Find cleverly disguised threats to public morality or hallowed American values that may be secretly lurking out there in our culture. | Joseph Romm | CUL POL
| 308 | HTML  | YEAR 7 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 7, 1999 | 312 | BOOKS AND BOOKS | Combine any two works of literature--no movies or TV--into one, give its title and describe it in a brief, appealing blurb that might appear in Publishers' Weekly. | Mike Long | LIT
| 309 | HTML  | March 14, 1999 | 313 | THE STYLE INVITATIONAL SOUVENIR SHOP | Come up with bad names for a new store at a mall. | Brian Broadus | WOR BUS
| 310 | HTML  | March 21, 1999 | 314 | IT'S THE LIST YOU CAN DO | Start with the name of a famous person, living or dead, real or fictional, either a full name or partial name. Progress through a series other names or phrases. Each name or phrase must be related to the prior item either by being a homophone or a definition. Eventually, arrive at a name or a phrase that is an appropriate pairing with the original name. | Elisa Nichols |
| 311 | HTML  | March 28, 1999 | 315 | FERMENTING TROUBLE | Write a rhyming poem, eight lines maximum, on the subject of cheese or any of the provided items. | Niels Hoven | POE
| 312 | HTML  | April 4, 1999 | 316 | CALLING THE TOON | What are these things? | Jennifer Hart | Sandra Hull CAR
| 313 | HTML   | April 11, 1999 | 317 | PICK US A WINNER | Come up with flawed contest ideas, and the single, obvious, too-good-to-beat entry. | Chuck Smith | STY
| 314 | HTML  | April 18, 1999 | 318 | HYPHEN THE TERRIBLE | Combine the first half of any hyphenated word in a story in today's paper with the second part of a different hyphenated word from the same story, and provide a new definition. | Chuck Smith | HYP
| 315 | HTML  | April 25, 1999 | 319 | REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY | Create an original chiasmus, an ancient literary form in which meaning is derived by pairing two words or phrases, and then reversing their order. | Craig McGowan | WOR
| 316 | HTML  | May 2, 1999 | 320 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Mate any two of the horses qualifying for the Triple Crown races and come up with appropriate names for their foals. Maximum 18 letters and spaces. | Dante D. Bruno | HOR
| 317 | HTML  | May 9, 1999 | 321 | INTERPRET THIS | Take any of the provided cartoon and come up with a matched pair of interpretations for what is happening. | Art Grinath | CAR
| 318 | HTML   | May 16, 1999 | 322 | YOU NAME IT | Take a well known pair or group of names, extend one of them in some manner, and explain how the group dynamic changes. | Tom Glynn |
| 319 | HTML  | May 23, 1999 | 323 | THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD INVITATIONAL | Come up with not-quite-ready inventions, past or present. | Brian Broadus | SCI BUS
| 320 | HTML  | May 30, 1999 | 324 | A PREQUEL OPPORTUNITY OFFERING | Come up with a "prequel" to some classic film or work of literature. You must produce a title and a brief plot summary, which or course must take place prior to the main action of the original work. | Aaron Kravitz | MOV
| 321 | HTML  | June 6, 1999 | 325 | THE BURMA ROAD | Propose welcoming doggerel for states or cities patterned after Burma Shave signs. | Stephen Dudzik | POE
| 322 | HTML  | June 13, 1999 | 326 | COMIC RELIEF | Look at today's comics pages, select one panel and one panel only from any comic strip, and rewrite the dialogue. | David Genser | COM
| 323 | HTML  | June 20, 1999 | 327 | ASK BACKWARDS | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | David Genser | JEO
| 324 | HTML  | June 27, 1999 | 328 | NICE CAPADES | Send in some pleasant observation, in which you take a really cheerful or heartwarming view of something that less charitable people might conceivably see differently. | Janet Arrowsmith-Love |
| 325 | HTML  | July 4, 1999 | 329 | THE STYLE INVITATIONAL: HELL | Take the name of a person or institution. Find within it a hidden message. You may add spacing and punctuation, but you may not move letters around. | Chrissy Haynes | Russell Haynes LET
| 326 | HTML   | July 11, 1999 | 330 | NERD PLANET FROM THE SUN | Come up with comments from the Nerd Side even less interesting than the observation that the 21st century doesn't really start until 2001. | Marcia Reecer |
| 327 | HTML  | July 18, 1999 | 331 | DRAWING ON CREATIVITY | Come up with an idea for a fictional central character for a comic strip based in Washington, D.C., and the environs. Describe your character in as much detail as you wish, and give the strip a name. | Elden Carnahan | Joyce Rains WAS COM
| 328 | HTML  | July 25, 1999 | 332 | AUTHORS IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER | Come up with a three- or four-panel cartoon about any of the winning characters from Week 332. | David Genser | Art Grinath Chuck Smith Meg Sullivan COM
| 329 | HTML   | August 1, 1999 | 333 | GET A LOAD OF THIS TA-TA | Submit episodes for the three winning strips from Week 331. There is no next week's contest. | Chuck Smith | COM
| 330, 332 |   | THE SABBATICAL | The Czar claims he is being sent on a secret half-year assignment, and that the Invitational may return with a new, invigorated format yet to be determined. When the column resumed, the Czar began to use Roman numerals for the Weeks. He abandoned this scheme at the beginning of Year 11, resuming traditional numbering as if there had been no break. YEAR 8 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | August 8, 1999 | | | | |
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| |   | January 30, 2000 | 334 | (I) The New Style Invitational: Six Choice for Czar | Vote for one of six possible editors of the Style Invitation, from among the current Czar and five worthy competitors. | Jonathan Paul | STY
| | HTML  | February 6, 2000 | 335 | (II) A LOVER'S SPAT | Enter the contest that is run by the editor of your choice. | Ben F. Noviello | STY
| | HTML  | February 13, 2000 | 336 | (III) THE "STY"LE INVITATIONAL | Choose any word and emphasize a single part of it, as though you were saying the word out loud with "air quotes" around the key part. Then redefine the word. You cannot alter the spelling of the word. | Elden Carnahan | Tom Witte WOR
| 334, 335 | HTML  | February 20, 2000 | 337 | (IV) DEGREES OF DIFFICULTY | Take a quality you wish to quantify and devise the perfect icon to measure it. Then give us an example of the extremes. | Elden Carnahan |
| 334 | HTML  | February 27, 2000 | 338 | (V) WHO WANTS TO WIN A TOILET? | Propose even greater depths of shameless, tasteless sleaze to which Fox TV is likely to sink after the noisome debacle of "Who Wants to Marry and Multi-Millionaire?" | Greg Pearson | TEL
| 335 | HTML   | March 5, 2000 | 339 | (VI) Campaignful Developments | Come up with signs that a presidential campaign might be in trouble. | Kelli Midgley | POL
| 336 | HTML  | March 12, 2000 | 340 | (VII) ASK BACKWARDS 12 | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions? | Sandra Hull | JEO
| 336 | HTML  | March 19, 2000 | 341 | (VIII) What's In a Name? | Write something about any famous person that uses only the letters in his or her name. | Richard Grossman | LET
| 337 | HTML  | March 26, 2000 | 342 | (IX) Plainly Ridiculous | Take any direct quotation from any article in today's Washington Post and translate it into "plain English." | Martin Bredeck | WAS
| 338 | HTML  | April 2, 2000 | 343 | (X) Eastwood Ho. | Create a Good-Bad-Ugly progression. | Teen Sheng | WOR
| 339 | HTML  | April 9, 2000 | 344 | (XI) What Kind of Foal Am I? | Envision the mating of any two of the 387 horses qualifying for this year's Triple Crown, and propose a name for their foal. The foal's name must be contained in 18 or fewer letters and spaces. | T. J. Murphy | HOR
| 340 | HTML  | April 16, 2000 | 345 | (XII) Picture This | What is going on in these cartoons? | David Genser | CAR
| 341 | HTML   | April 23, 2000 | 346 | (XIII) Greasy Kids Tough | Take any news event from history, recent of ancient, large or small, and rewrite it in 100 words or fewer as it might have appeared in KidsPost. | Mary Lou French | HIS
| 342 | HTML  | April 30, 2000 | 347 | (XIV) Capital Pun-ishment | Take an expression, or a lyric for a song, or any recognizable line of prose, and make it the punchline of an awful pun. | Bill Strider | JOK LIT
| 343 | HTML  | May 7, 2000 | 348 | (XV) When We're LXIV | Fashion an entry by selecting one from each of the provided menu groups. | Mike Elliott |
| 344 | HTML  | May 14, 2000 | 349 | (XVI) Orienting Oneself | Produce a haiku using only words found in today's Washington Post. Your entry must have three lines, the first containing exactly five syllables, the second containing exactly seven syllables, the third containing exactly five. | David Genser | POE
| 345 | HTML  | May 21, 2000 | 350 | (XVII) Employing Irony | Propose bad career choices. | David Genser |
| 346 | HTML  | May 28, 2000 | 351 | (XVIII) Dubya Fun | Take any well-known statement, expression, slogan, etc., and rewrite it the way Dubya might have said it. | Jonathan Paul | POL
| 347 | HTML  | June 4, 2000 | 352 | (XIX) A Laff Riot | Take the name of a company and/or its commercial product and provide it a new definition. | Jennifer Nelson | BUS
| 348 | HTML  | June 11, 2000 | 353 | (XX) Patently Silly | What do these devices do? | Jean Sorensen | CAR
| 349 | HTML   | June 18, 2000 | 354 | (XXI) Everyone's a Critic | Adopt the style of a famous writer and review any of the provided dishes. | Phil Frankenfeld | LIT
| 350 | HTML  | June 25, 2000 | 355 | (XXII) Seeing Stars | Tell us ways we can attract celebrity participation to this contest. | Jacob Weinstein | STY
| 351 | HTML  | July 2, 2000 | 356 | (XXIII) Med Icks | Invent a clever name for a new medical product, and specify the condition it would treat. | Chester Myslicki | SCI
| 352 | HTML  | July 9, 2000 | 357 | (XXIV) Coming to a Bad End | Take some immortal line from literature or film and ruin it by adding a short phrase or sentence. | Joseph Romm | MOV
| 353 | HTML  | July 16, 2000 | 358 | (XXV) Finish the Fire | Finish "We Didn't Start the Fire," to summarize 1990 to the present. | Chris Doyle | MUS
| 354 | HTML  | July 23, 2000 | 359 | (XXVI) It's No Party | Come up with a new political party and its main political tenet. | Jonathan Paul | POL
| 355 | HTML  | July 30, 2000 | 360 | (XXVII) No Competition | Create a list of 25 names, each linked in some way to the name before, and you must begin and end with Mary Ann Madden. | Chris Doyle |
| 356 | HTML  | August 6, 2000 | 361 | (XXVIII) Bad Libs | Select one subject, one verb, and one object from the provided lists, and then answer the riddle you create. | Edward Asher | WOR JOK
| 357 | HTML  | August 13, 2000 | 362 | (XXIX) Something Missing | Tell us what is missing in each of the provided cartoons. | Sam Rosenberg | CAR
| 358 | HTML   | August 20, 2000 | 363 | (XXX) It's Your Movie | Take the title of any movie and make it the answer to a riddle. | David Genser | MOV JOK
| 359 | HTML  | August 27, 2000 | 364 | (XXXI) Low Marks | Come up with a new punctuation mark. Tell us what it looks like, and what it is used for, and use it in a sentence. | Bob Dalton |
| 360 | HTML  | September 3, 2000 | 365 | (XXXII) Terse Verse | Ask a question and then answer it with a rhyme. Your answer can be as many words as you wish, but all must have the same rhyme. | David Genser | POE
| 361 | HTML  | September 10, 2000 | 366 | (XXXIII) Just Fulghum | Come up with a list of at least three Major Life Lessons one can learn from any of the venues provided. | Martin Bredeck | CUL
| 362 | HTML  | September 17, 2000 | 367 | (XXXIV) Future Schlock | Come up with a line that will surely not appear in an upcoming work. | Chuck Smith | LIT
| 363 | HTML  | September 24, 2000 | 368 | (XXXV) Hyphen the Terrible | Combine the first half of any hyphenated word in a story in today's paper with the second part of a different hyphenated word from the same story, and provide a new definition. | Chris Doyle | HYP
| 364 | HTML   | October 1, 2000 | 369 | (XXXVI) Punch Us | Complete any of the provided jokes. | Jennifer Hart | JOK
| 365 | HTML  | October 8, 2000 | 370 | (XXXVII) No End in Sight | Write the beginnings of sentences you don't want to hear the end of. | Bill Chang | WOR
| 366 | HTML  | October 15, 2000 | 371 | (XXXVIII) Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | Fred Hayes | Joseph Romm Meg Sullivan JEO
| 367 | HTML  | October 22, 2000 | 372 | (XXXIX) Trial Balloons | Fill in the balloons. | Stephen Dudzik | CAR
| 368 | HTML   | October 29, 2000 | 373 | (XL) An Extra Large Challenge | What should we put on the back of the new Style Invitational T-shirt? | Mike Elliott | TSH
| 369 | HTML  | November 5, 2000 | 374 | (XLI) Bill Us Later | Take a well-known expression and update it for the new millennium. | Twyla Vernon | CUL
| 370 | HTML  | November 12, 2000 | 375 | (XLII) Show Us Up | Combine the names of two existing TV shows (past or present) to make an entirely new show. Then, describe the show. | Jonathan Paul | TEL
| 371 | HTML  | November 19, 2000 | 376 | (XLIII) Apply Yourself | Supply bad openings to college application biographies. | Elden Carnahan |
| 372 | HTML  | November 26, 2000 | 377 | (XLIV) Week MMDCXLIV | Provide a headline (and, if necessary, the first line of the text) for any article that will appear in The Washington Post on this day in the year 2050. | Tom Witte | HEA HIS
| 373 | HTML  | December 3, 2000 | 378 | (XLV) Bill Us Now | Come up with a bill sponsored by any of the newly elected U.S. senators and representatives, and explain the purpose of the bill. | Dave Zarrow | LEG
| 374 | HTML  | December 10, 2000 | 379 | (XLVI) Rather Unusual | Come up with lines that could be uttered by Dan Rather, with his unbearably folksy excesses. | Jennifer Hart | CUL
| 375 | HTML  | December 17, 2000 | 380 | (XLVII) The New-Name Offense | Propose changes for the names of places and things that need it, either because there is something wrong with their name, or because another name would be so much more descriptive. | Lynne Filderman | WOR
| 376 | HTML  | December 24, 2000 | 381 | (XLVIII) Idiom Savant | Take any well-known idiom, or expression, and invent an interesting derivation for it. | Gordon Labow | WOR
| 377 | HTML  | December 31, 2000 | 382 | (XLIX) Pickup Schticks | Write inept pickup lines, by either sex, to either sex. | Jonathan Paul | CUL
| 378 | HTML  | January 7, 2001 | 383 | (L) A Kinder, Gender Nation | Take an noun and give us a reason or two why it should be either masculine or feminine. | Jim Martin | WOR
| 379 | HTML  | January 14, 2001 | 384 | (LI) What's Your Story? | Take at least four of the provided cartoons, arrange them in any sequence you wish, and make up a funny story that they would illustrate. | Sarah Gaymon | CAR
| 380 | HTML   | January 21, 2001 | 385 | (LII) Proceed Gingerly | What is the still-secret invention, code-name "Ginger", that is said to meet the provided criteria? | Ervin Stembol | SCI
| 381 | HTML  | January 28, 2001 | 386 | (LIII) The Game of Clue | What are some clues that someone might be any of the provided characterizations? | Judith Cottrill |
| 382 | HTML  | YEAR 9 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | February 4, 2001 | 387 | (LIV) By Jingo | Come up with a joke that could be written and understood only by a Washingtonian. | Jonathan Paul | WAS
| 383 | HTML  | February 11, 2001 | 388 | (LV) Pitches in the Dirt | Come up with a sales pitch to get any surplus product off the shelves. | Mike Genz | BUS
| 384 | HTML  | February 18, 2001 | 389 | (LVI) Operation Overkill | Present a solution to a problem that goes just a little too far. | Saria Brewer |
| 385 | HTML  | The Uberczar and the Auxiliary Czar begin filling in temporarily for the Czar. | February 25, 2001 | 390 | (LVII) Canine Fashion | Write: 1. A caption for the provided image explaining what is happening; 2. An explanation of why the image is not photography but art; 3. A description of what additional items might be needed to make the image complete. Sex and potty jokes will be disqualified. | Kelli Midgley | CAP ART
| 386 | HTML   | March 4, 2001 | 391 | (LVIII) Spinning Out of Control | Take an headline in today's Washington Post and create a subhead that spins the story in an opposite or unexpected direction. | Sarah Gaymon | HEA
| 387 | HTML  | March 11, 2001 | 392 | (LIX) Everyone's a Comic | Choose any panel of any comics strip in today's Washington Post and improve it by replacing the original speech and thought balloons with your own, | Drew Knoblauch | CAR
| 388 | HTML   | March 18, 2001 | 393 | (LX) Things Could Be Verse | Take any story in today's Washington Post and rewrite it into a rhyming poem of no more than eight lines. | Geoff Shafer | Lindsay Shafer POE
| 389 | HTML  | March 25, 2001 | 394 | (LXI) Life in the Blurbs | Come up with a blurb used to sell a real or imagined book or movie that would be likely to have the opposite of the intended effect. | Christina Mach | LIT MOV
| 390 | HTML  | April 1, 2001 | 395 | (LXII) Devilishly Clever | Describe someone's special little corner of Hell. | Andy Lees | REL
| 391 | HTML  | April 8, 2001 | 396 | (LXIII) April Foals | Mate any two of the horses qualifying for the Triple Crown races and come up with appropriate names for their foals. Maximum 18 letters and spaces. | Jonathan Paul | HOR
| 392 | HTML  | April 15, 2001 | 397 | (LXIV) Sins of Omission | Omit a letter or letters from a real-life sign to create a name for a new business, comically different from the original. Describe the new business or include a slogan that explains it. | Selma Mathias | LET
| 393 | HTML  | April 22, 2001 | 398 | (LXV) Animal Magnetism | Make great literature and/or a significant expression of the human condition out of the provided randomly-selected words. Use whatever punctuation you choose and any of the words, but only those words, and use them only once. | Brian Foster | LIT CUL WOR
| 394 |   | April 29, 2001 | 399 | (LXVI) IT PAYS TO BE GENDEROUS | Write a short film description that could persuade a woman that the guy movie he wants to see is really close to being a gal movie, or vice versa. | Robin Grove | MOV
| 395 | HTML  | May 6, 2001 | 400 | (LXVII) Life Is Snort | Write a "Life is Short" entry in under 100 words, in the voice of a celebrity, living or dead. | Don Burdett | CUL
| 396 | HTML  | May 13, 2001 | 401 | (LXVIII) A Matter of Degree | Describe a sign of some modest change in a situation and pair it with a sign of an extreme change in that same situation. | Chuck Smith |
| 397 | HTML  | The Czar returns to duty. | May 20, 2001 | 402 | (LXIX) Spitting the Difference | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | Jim Pond | DIF
| 398 | HTML   | May 27, 2001 | 403 | (LXX) Cry, Uncle! | Write the beginnings of an obituary that will provide the details of what happened to the Style Invitational Uncle. | Tom Witte | EPI
| 399 | HTML  | June 3, 2001 | 404 | (LXXI) Balloonacy | Create a comic strip of one to four panels. For your dialogue or thought balloons, you may choose from the provided menu. You may invent one line of your own. | Jonathan Paul | CAR
| 400 | HTML  | June 10, 2001 | 405 | (LXXII) The "Sty"le Invitational | Take any word--this may include people or places--put a portion of it in "air quotes" and redefine it. You may not alter the spelling. | Steve Fahey | WOR
| 401 | HTML  | June 17, 2001 | 406 | (LXXIII) Bum Steerage | Offer some spectacularly bad advice to any of the provided people. | David Moore | CUL
| 402 | HTML  | June 24, 2001 | 407 | (LXXIV) Adverbiage | Come up with a witticism or a joke by making a pun out of an adverb. Unlike Tom Swiftlys, your adverb must modify not a verb but an adjective. | Chris Doyle | JOK WOR
| 403 | HTML  | July 1, 2001 | 408 | (LXXV) What's In a Name? | Take the name of any politician, living or dead, and construct an appropriate message from the letters of the name. You may use any letter as many times as you wish, and you may insert punctuation. | Chris Doyle | LET POL
| 404 | HTML  | July 8, 2001 | 409 | (LXXVI) Nice Job, if You Get It | Take anything that might need its image enhanced and rename it in a way the keeps its essential identity, but makes it seem nicer. | Gary Patishnock |
| 405 | HTML  | July 15, 2001 | 410 | (LXXVII) Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | Chuck Smith | JEO
| 406 | HTML  | July 22, 2001 | 411 | (LXXVIII) X's and Oaths | Take any oath, pledge, declaration or slogan and update it. | Jean Sorensen | SLO
| 407 | HTML  | July 29, 2001 | 412 | (LXXIX) Painful Climaxes | Come up with statements that start really dramatically, but leave you sorta flat at the end. | Ray Aragon | Cindy Coe
| 408 | HTML  | August 5, 2001 | 413 | (LXXX) Bland Ambition | Come up with one or more items from an underachiever's list of midlife resolutions. | Gail Fiorini | CUL
| 409 | HTML  | August 12, 2001 | 414 | (LXXXI) No Rest for the Query | Complete the provided rhetorical question by filling in the blanks. It must be a put-down. | Paul Kocak |
| 410 | HTML  | August 19, 2001 | 415 | (LXXXII) Sentence Us to Death | Take any sentence appearing anywhere in today's Washington Post, and invent a question that it answers. | Russell Beland | WAS QUE
| 411 | HTML  | August 26, 2001 | 416 | (LXXXIII) Diff'rent Jokes | Describe how things might have been different is famous person, living or dead, had had one of the provided conditions. | Drew Knoblauch | HIS
| 412 | HTML  | September 2, 2001 | 417 | (LXXXIV) Initially Mistaken | Take any name of person or thing, and construct an appropriate message using its letters, in order, as the first letters of the words of your message. | Chris Doyle | LET
| 413 | HTML  | September 9, 2001 | 418 | (LXXXV) Xtreme Invitational | Come up with signs you are overdoing it any in any of the provided categories. | John Burton |
| 414 | HTML  | September 16, 2001 | 419 | (LXXXVI) Don't Spare the Rodney | Come up with indications that one might not be getting no respect. | Chuck Smith |
| 415 | HTML  | September 23, 2001 | 420 | (LXXXVII) Ha Anxiety | Make us laugh. | Russell Beland | JOK
| 416 | HTML  | September 30, 2001 | 421 | (LXXXVIII) Picture This | These objects are not what they seem to be, at first glance. They are something else entirely. What are they? | Jennifer Hart | CAR
| 417 | HTML   | October 7, 2001 | 422 | (LXXXIX) Taught Language | Come up with lessons learned from (1) the movies, (2) popular songs, (3) romance novels or (4) the comics page. | Bob Sorensen | MOV MUS LIT COM
| 418 | HTML  | October 14, 2001 | 423 | (XC) Roling With Laughter | Take a character from one movie, use him or her to replace a character in a second movie, and then explain how this change would affect the second movie. | Russell Beland | MOV
| 419 | HTML  | Reacting to the anthrax scare, the Invitational no longer accepts mailed-in entries. | October 21, 2001 | 424 | (XCI) Osama Chanted Evening | Write poems about Osama bin Laden. | Patricia Helmetag | POE
| 420 | HTML  | October 28, 2001 | 425 | (XCII) Hyphen the Terrible | Take the first half of any hyphenated word from any story in today's newspaper and combine it with the second half of any other hyphenated word in the same story, and propose a definition of the new word you've created. | Chris Doyle | HYP
| 421 | HTML  | November 4, 2001 | 426 | (XCIII) Captions Courageous | Take any photograph of illustration from today's Washington Post and give it a more interesting caption. | Jennifer Hart | CAP
| 422 | HTML  | November 11, 2001 | 427 | (XCIV) Skinned | Come up with events that have a smaller chance of happening than the Redskins winning the Super Bowl. | Sarah Gaymon | ATH
| 423 | HTML  | November 18, 2001 | 428 | (XCV) No Rest for the Query | Answer any of the provided supposedly unanswerable questions in the voice of any famous person, living or dead. | Elliott Schiff |
| 424 | HTML  | November 25, 2001 | 429 | (XCVI) Shark Instruments | Tell us what would be a sign that any current institution--TV show, newspaper feature, magazine, business, etc.--has jumped the shark. | Chris Doyle | TEL CUL BUS
| 425 | HTML  | December 2, 2001 | 430 | (XCVII) Omb Directive No. 2 | Revisit any contest The Style Invitational has ever run, and rewrite out tawdry past by proposing a new first-prize winner serious and/or decorous enough to please the Ombudsman. | Jonathan Paul | PRE
| 426 | HTML  | THE HIBERNATION | The Czar claims to be embarking on a secret mission, and promises that the Invitational will resume in January. During this time he will run profiles of top SI contestants, each of which will contain one lie. December 9, 2001 | 431 | (XCVIII) Please Bear With Us … | There is no contest. Czar ran biographies of Chuck Smith and Jean Sorensen, each containing one lie. | |
| | HTML  | December 16, 2001 | 432 | (XCIX) Sleeps With the Fishes. | No contests until mid-January. Czar ran biographies of Chris Doyle, Sue Lin Chong, Paul Styrene, and Brian Broadus, each containing one lie. | |
| | HTML  | December 23, 2001 | 433 | (C) Takes a Break | No contests until mid-January. Czar ran biographies of Russell Beland, Sarah Gaymon, John Kammer, and Paul Kondis, each containing one lie. | |
| | HTML  | December 30, 2001 | 434 | (CI) Takes a Breather | No contests until mid-January. Czar ran biographies of Jennifer Hart, Jonathan Paul, Mike Genz and Robin Grove, each containing one lie. | |
| | HTML  | January 6, 2002 | 435 | (CII) Vegies Out | No contests until mid-January. Czar ran biographies of Tom Witte, Dave Zarrow, Sandra Hull, and Kevin Cuddihy, each containing one lie. | |
| | HTML  | January 13, 2002 | 436 | (CIII) Takes a Powder | The contest resumes next week. Czar ran biographies of Elden Carnahan, Stephen Dudzik, Joseph Romm, and Art Grinath, each containing one lie. | |
| | HTML  | January 20, 2002 | 437 | (CIV) The Telegraph Poll | Tell us the beginning of a joke that badly telegraphs the punch line. | Seth Brown | JOK
| 428 | HTML  | January 27, 2002 | 438 | (CV) What's the Pun Line? | Ask a question and answer it, somewhere incorporating the name of a least one famous person. | Chris Doyle | QUE
| 429 | HTML  | YEAR 10 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | February 3, 2002 | 439 | (CVI) No Can Do | Write signs of incompetence. | Kyle Bonney |
| 427 | HTML  | February 10, 2002 | 440 | (CVII) Picture This | What is going on in these cartoons? | Chris Hill | CAR
| 430 | HTML  | February 17, 2002 | 441 | (CVIII) Spit the Difference | Take any two nouns that appear on the front page of today's Washington Post and explain how the nouns differ from each other. | Chris Doyle | WAS
| 437 | HTML  | February 24, 2002 | 442 | (CIX) Titletales | Take any real book or movie, change one word slightly, and describe the resulting new product. | Jeffrey Martin | LIT MOV WOR
| 438 | HTML  | March 3, 2002 | 443 | (CX) Sick Humor | Come up with modern diseases of Washington life. | Deborah Searson | WAS
| 439 | HTML  | March 10, 2002 | 444 | (CXI) Advice Squad | Take any letter from today's advice columns and answer it in the voice of someone famous, living or dead. | Mike Genz | CUL
| 440 | HTML  | March 17, 2002 | 445 | (CXII) Another Round of Bierce | Add a few entries to Ambrose Bierce's famous "Devil's Dictionary." | Mike Genz | WOR
| 441 | HTML  | March 24, 2002 | 446 | (CXIII) Poems Where the Heart Is | Take any recent news event and summarize it in a rhyming poem of eight lines or fewer. | Jennifer Hart | POE
| 442 | HTML  | March 31, 2002 | 447 | (CXIV) Acronimble | Take any of the provided witty statements and use the first letters in each of the words to create a brand-new, unrelated funny statement. | Jennifer Nelson | LET
| 443 | HTML  | April 7, 2002 | 448 | (CXV) What Kind of Foal Am I? | Mate any two of the horses qualifying for the Triple Crown races this year and propose a name for their foal. No name may exceed 18 characters, including spaces. | Mark Eckenwiler | HOR
| 444 | HTML  | April 14, 2002 | 449 | (CXVI) Cut and Pastiche | Create a new, funny headline from the words of any headlines appearing anywhere in today's Post. You cannot subdivide words. | Dave Zarrow | HEA
| 445 | HTML  | April 21, 2002 | 450 | (CXVII) Blues It or Lose It | Write the first verse of a blues song expressing some Washington area woe. | Bob Dalton | WAS
| 446 | HTML  | April 28, 2002 | 451 | (CXVIII) Make Your Pix | Which two of the provided cartoons are related, and how? | Dan Steinberg | CAR DIF
| 447 | HTML  | May 5, 2002 | 452 | (CXIX) Russellmania! | (1) Design one or more steps for a 12-step program for the recovering Invitationalaholic; (2) Propose a devious method by which we might lure Russell Beland back. | J. D. Berry | STY
| 448 | HTML  | May 12, 2002 | 453 | (CXX) Haiku 2 U2 | Write a haiku summarizing the career of any American politician, living or head. A haiku is generally defined as a nonrhyming poem, of three lines. The first and last lines are five syllables; the middle line is seven. | Daniel Horner | POE POL
| 449 | HTML  | May 19, 2002 | 454 | (CXXI) Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | Sue Lin Chong | JEO
| 450 | HTML  | May 26, 2002 | 455 | (CXXII) Comixing | Create new comic characters by crossing two existing characters, then describe the character. | Seth Brown | COM
| 451 | HTML  | June 2, 2002 | 456 | (CXXIII) A Bad-Ask Contest | You are still on Jeopardy!, and you still have to supply questions to the provided answers, but the winners will be the least funny answers. | Mark Young | JEO
| 452 | HTML  | June 9, 2002 | 457 | (CXXIV) Letter Rip | Give us the beginning of a letter to the editor that is certain never to see print. | Fil Feit |
| 453 | HTML  | June 16, 2002 | 458 | (CXXV) It's a Setup | Come up with joke setups for any of the provided punch lines. | William Zamojcin | JOK
| 454 | HTML   | June 23, 2002 | 459 | (CXXVI) Stock Humor | Look at any of the abbreviated company names in the Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange listings in any newspaper's business section and suggest what business the companies might be in. | Mike Hammer | BUS
| 455 | HTML   | June 30, 2002 | 460 | (CXXVII) Pompous Assets | Come up the first paragraph of a review of a real book or movie, past or present, that is narcissistic, pretentious, and self-aggrandizing. | Jonathan Paul | LIT MOV
| 456 | HTML  | July 7, 2002 | 461 | (CXXVIII) Punch Us Again | Take any comic from the daily Washington Post during the next week and make it better by changing the contents of the final word balloon. | Meg Sullivan | WAS COM
| 457 | HTML  | July 14, 2002 | 462 | (CXXIX) Cast Away | Come up with a terrible bit of miscasting in a movie or TV show, past or present, real or imagined. | William Rothstein | MOV TEL
| 458 | HTML  | July 21, 2002 | 463 | (CXXX) Retell Sales | Give us the beginning of any well-known story as retold by any famous person, living or dead, except for Ronald Reagan. | Jonathan Paul | LIT
| 459 | HTML  | July 28, 2002 | 464 | (CXXXI) Cursive Writing | Come up with a new curse for this millennium. | Art Grinath | CUL
| 460 | HTML  | August 4, 2002 | 465 | (CXXXII) Hyphen the Terrible | Take the first half of any word or word combination in today's Post that is broken by a hyphen at the end of a line, and combine it with the second half of any other hyphenated word from the same story, and define the new word that is formed. | James Pierce | HYP
| 461 | HTML  | August 11, 2002 | 466 | (CXXXIII) Spit the Difference | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | Chris Doyle | DIF
| 462 | HTML  | August 18, 2002 | 467 | (CXXXIV) Get Your But in Here | Produce a line that fits this structure: (Real thing based upon current events) is (word or phrase suggesting some quality) but (other word or phrase suggesting a dissimilar or incompatible quality), like (funny analogy). | Elden Carnahan |
| 463 | HTML  | August 25, 2002 | 468 | (CXXXV) Ism This Stupid? | Take any common prefix and attach it to any well-known "ism" and define the new term. | Paul A. Stone | WOR
| 464 | HTML  | September 1, 2002 | 469 | (CXXXVI) Playing Check-In | Suggest appropriate hotel check-in names for any celebrities, past or present, living or dead. | Russell Beland | CUL
| 465 | HTML  | September 8, 2002 | 470 | (CXXXVII) Czar Har | Take the name of someone famous, rhyme it with a product, and describe the unholy union. | Brendan Beary | POE
| 466 | HTML  | September 15, 2002 | 471 | (CXXXVIII) Excuses, Excuses | Come up with creative new excuses for not turning in homework, not filing your taxes on time, missing church or forgetting your spouse's birthday. | Kelley Lund |
| 467 | HTML  | September 22, 2002 | 472 | (CXXXIX) Water Stupid Idea | Propose bad ideas for saving water in the continuing drought. | Roy Ashley |
| 468 | HTML  | September 29, 2002 | 473 | (CXL) Offensive Line | Find what's offensive in any of the provided cartoons, and explain. | Seth Brown | CAR
| 469 | HTML  | October 6, 2002 | 474 | (CXLI) Alphabettering | Create a sentence that uses each letter the alphabet at least once but that would never be heard on the politically correct, genteel, rarified air of NPR. | Milo Sauer | LET
| 470 | HTML  | October 13, 2002 | 475 | (CXLII) Bad Connection | Take any two seemingly unrelated stories from anywhere in today's Washington Post and explain how their subjects are linked in some unholy conspiracy or other suspicious way. | | WAS
| 471 | HTML  | October 20, 2002 | 476 | (CXLIII) Portmanteautapping | Make a new word by squishing together two existing words. The constituent words must share at least two letters. | Meg Sullivan | WOR
| 472 | HTML  | October 27, 2002 | 477 | (CXLIV) A Load of Bulwer | Give us the beginning of incompetently written novel. | Brian Barrett | Bob Dalton Chuck Smith LIT
| 473 | HTML  | November 3, 2002 | 478 | (CXLV) Do You Mindset? | Anticipate items for the Mindset List for the freshman class of the year 2020. | Tony Noerpel | CUL
| 474 | HTML  | November 10, 2002 | 479 | (CXLVI) Invest Case Scenario | Suggest new companies in which it might be unwise to invest. | John Cogburn | BUS
| 477 | HTML  | November 17, 2002 | 480 | (CXLVII) In No Uncertain Terminations | Come up with a way to stop any unwanted overture in its tracks. | Barry Blyveis |
| 476 | HTML  | November 24, 2002 | 481 | (CXLVIII) Homonymphomania | Create a new homonym of any existing word, and define. The new word must be spelled in such a way that is obviously pronounced identically to the original word. | Michael Levy | WOR
| 477 | HTML  | December 1, 2002 | 482 | (CXLIX) Inspect Out Gadgets | What are these gadgets? What do they do? | Seth Brown | CAR
| 478 | HTML  | December 8, 2002 | 483 | (CL) Obitter Fate | Give us an obit headline for some famous person, currently living or dead. | Dan Steinberg | HEA
| 479 | HTML  | December 15, 2002 | 484 | (CLI) Manufracturing | Take any product and explain how it would be different if it were designed by a different existing company. | Milo Sauer | BUS
| 480 | HTML  | December 22, 2002 | 485 | (CLII) Asterisky Business | Write a joke with a punch line depending on knowledge so esoteric that it requires an asterisked explanation. | Seth Brown | JOK
| 481 | HTML  | December 29, 2002 | 486 | (CLIII) A Word From Our Co-Sponsors | Come up with bills the new members of Congress might sponsor. Each bill must have at least two sponsors. | Chris Doyle | LEG
| 482 | HTML  | January 5, 2003 | 487 | (CLIV) Eee! Rotica | Come with a passage in a novel that ineptly describes hanky-panky. | Marc Leibert | LIT
| 483 | HTML  | January 12, 2003 | 488 | (CLV) No Rest for the Query | Come up with a vexing, funny question about life. | John Durkin | QUE
| 484 | HTML  | January 19, 2003 | 489 | (CLVI) Combo, First Blood | Combine two people whose names contain a common element, as in the examples above. Then describe the person, or provide a quote he or she might have uttered. | Beverly Miller | WOR
| 485 | HTML  | January 26, 2003 | 490 | (CLVII) Eyes on Reprise | Submit any good entries you might have thought of, for any previous contest, after the deadline passed. | Helene Haduch | PRE
| 486 | HTML  | February 2, 2003 | 491 | (CLVIII) Hirschfeld Follies | Try to figure out which celebrities Bob Staake is trying to draw in imitation of Al Hirschfeld. | Ben Pitkin | CUL
| 487 | HTML  | February 9, 2003 | 492 | (CLIX) Cheap Tricks | Come up with extreme cost-conserving measures for these difficult economic times. | Lindsay Lacy | POL
| 488 | HTML  | February 16, 2003 | 493 | (CLX) A Major Offensive | Find something anywhere in today's Washington Post and complain about it with absurd oversensitivity. | Cecil Clark | WAS
| 489 | HTML  | February 23, 2003 | 494 | (CLXI) Quote-idian | Take any extremely banal piece of familiar writing and rewrite it in the style of a famous writer, poet or lyricist. | Jeff Brechlin | LIT POE
| 490 | HTML  | March 2, 2003 | 495 | (CLXII) Words of One Syl- … Um, Just Short Words | Take some complex issue of any sort and explain it to all us morons entirely in words of one syllable. | R. N. Oerter | POL
| 491 | HTML  | YEAR 11 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 9, 2003 | 496 | The Style Invitational: The First Dreckade | Submit new entries to any of the old contest listed, and try to beat The Very Best of the Past 10 Years. | Jeff Brechlin | PRE
| |   | March 16, 2003 | 497 | Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | Kevin Cuddihy | JEO
| 492, 493 | HTML  | March 23, 2003 | 498 | Unamazing But True! | Submit a true fact that is of absolutely no use, but interesting in a weirdly Invitationalist way. | Milo Sauer | STY
| 494 | HTML  | March 30, 2003 | 499 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Mate any two of the horses qualifying for this year's Triple Crown and tell us the name of their foal. Maximum 18 characters, including spaces. | Emily Lloyd | HOR
| 495 | HTML  | April 6, 2003 | 500 | Ergo-Nomics | Create a sillygism--a syllogism that doesn't quite work. | Dan Dunn | WOR
| 496 | HTML  | April 13, 2003 | 501 | Questionable Sentences | Take any sentence appearing anywhere in today's Washington Post and make it the answer to a question. | Tom Kreitzberg | WAS
| 497 | HTML  | April 20, 2003 | 502 | Picture This | Who are these people? What are they doing? | Elden Carnahan | CAR
| 498 | HTML  | April 27, 2003 | 503 | Doody and Muldoon | Write poetry that out-Muldoons Paul Muldoon, the Princeton professor who won this year's Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Your poem must be a single quatrain, containing at least one rhyme and references to at least two body parts and one geographic name. | Chris Doyle | POE
| 499 | HTML  | May 4, 2003 | 504 | Life Is Snort | Write a schmaltzy last line of a "Life Is Short." | David K. Ronka |
| 500 | HTML  | May 11, 2003 | 505 | The Rule of Dumb | You are given $1 million. Conditions: (1) You must spend it all. (2) You must use it in a way that neither directly nor indirectly works to your financial benefit. (3) You may not use it to alleviate the suffering of anyone on Earth, or for any public-spirited project other than the joy of stupidity. | Mark Briscoe |
| 501 | HTML  | May 18, 2003 | 506 | The Battle of All Mottoes | Provide a slogan for any federal department agency, department, office, etc. | Brendan Beary | SLO
| 502 | HTML  | May 25, 2003 | 507 | Crocktails | Come up with a drink named for something or someone associated with Washington and describe the drink. | Joe Cackler | WAS
| 503 | HTML  | June 1, 2003 | 508 | Letter Rip | Take a word from the dictionary, add, change, or delete a single letter, and redefine the word. | Jonathan Paul | LET
| 504 | HTML  | June 8, 2003 | 509 | Be a Real Card | Come up with a greeting card rhyme for an un-greeting-card occasion. | Joe Cackler | POE
| 505 | HTML  | June 15, 2003 | 510 | Universal Embarrassment | What would you like to see Miss Universe Pageant contests asked live, on national TV? | Sugar Strawn | Jack Welsch TEL
| 506 | HTML  | June 22, 2003 | 511 | It All Impends | Tell us what is something unusual about to happen in the provided cartoons. | Dave Hebda | CAR
| 507 | HTML  | June 29, 2003 | 512 | Live On, Sweet, Earnest Reader | Take the name of any person--living, dead, fictional--and use the letters of his name, in succession. To form the first letters of an expression appropriate to that person. | Chris Doyle | LET
| 508 | HTML  | July 6, 2003 | 513 | It's Delete We Can Do | Come up with very bad subject lines for spam e-mail--lines that will guarantee instant deletion, sight unseen. | Tom Kreitzberg | WOR
| 509 | HTML  | July 13, 2003 | 514 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are your answers. What are the questions? | Sanford Horn | JEO
| 510 | HTML  | July 20, 2003 | 515 | A Cellebration of Tasteful Living | Come up with ways that Martha Stewart can prettify and improve her new prison surroundings using only her skills, her impeccable taste and those resources available to her. | Chuck Smith | CUL
| 511 | HTML  | July 27, 2003 | 516 | Err Apparent | Come up with unwise things to say in any of the provided circumstances. | Milo Sauer |
| 512 | HTML  | August 3, 2003 | 517 | Insert Joke Here | Slip a single bogus sentence into next year's State of the Union address, figuring the Prez will probably just read it right off the teleprompter. | Craig Zimmerman | POL
| 513 | HTML  | August 10, 2003 | 518 | Say, Kids, What Time Is It? | Fill in the blanks in the following sentence: "You know it's time to ------ when ------." | Michael Connaghan | CUL
| 514 | HTML  | August 17, 2003 | 519 | Hey, Baby, What's Your Sector? | Come up with pickup lines that could be heard only in Washington. | Cindy Burnham | WAS
| 515 | HTML  | August 24, 2003 | 520 | I, Object | These items were ordered by well-known people. Who ordered them, and why? | Brendan Beary | CAR
| 516 | HTML  | August 31, 2003 | 521 | Hyphen the Terrible | Take the first half of any hyphenated word in today's Washington Post (or Tuesday's USA Today) and combine it with the second half of any other hyphenated word in the same story, and define the new word it produces. | Jane Auerbach | HYP WOR
| 517 | HTML  | September 7, 2003 | 522 | Being There | Set the agenda for a flash mob, one of those existential, Web-arranged, sudden, pointless, instantaneous but brief gatherings of people at odd places, to do odd things. | Sarah Gaymon | CUL
| 518 | HTML  | September 14, 2003 | 523 | Hard to Overstate | Propose ways to make modern life just a little bit harder than it needs to be. | Danny Bravman | CUL
| 519 | HTML  | September 21, 2003 | 524 | Around Things Moving | Take the title of any book or movie, rearrange the words, and explain what the new book or movie is about. | Russell Beland | LIT MOV WOR
| 520 | HTML  | September 28, 2003 | 525 | It Won't Belong Now | Tell us which of three cartoons provided does not belong, and why. | Russell Beland | CAR
| 521 | HTML  | October 5, 2003 | 526 | Conventional Wisdumb | Answer any of the provided questions. | Art Grinath | QUE
| 522 | HTML  | October 12, 2003 | 527 | Rite of First Defusal | Come up with witty or bizarre things to say to defuse the tension in awkward moments. | Mark Young | CUL
| 523 | HTML  | October 19, 2003 | 528 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | Elden Carnahan | JEO
| 524 | HTML  | October 26, 2003 | 529 | United We Stanza | Summarize in four rhyming lines of verse any famous document, theory, principle or speech. | Brendan Beary | POE
| 525 | HTML  | November 2, 2003 | 530 | Tri Harder | Take any word, alter it in three ways--by adding a letter, by subtracting a letter and by changing a letter--and redefine all three new words. | Brendan Beary | LET
| 526 | HTML  | November 9, 2003 | 531 | Your Cynic Duties | Come up with a saying that sound as if it's going to be inspirational, but winds up being cynical, misanthropic or sad. | Tom McCudden | WOR
| 527 | HTML  | November 16, 2003 | 532 | Short Pans | Come up with a terse review (four words or fewer) of any work of art. | Chris Doyle | ART
| 528 | HTML  | November 23, 2003 | 533 | Breed Apart | Mate the clones of any two famous real people, living or dead--a male and a female, please--and hypothesize what traits or skills their offspring might have. | Tom Witte | CUL
| 529 | HTML  | November 30, 2003 | 534 | The Feminine Touch | Propose how any male-dominated occupation of institution would change if it suddenly became female-dominated. | Tom McCudden | BUS CUL
| 530 | HTML  | THE CZAR IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE EMPRESS | December 7, 2003 | 535 | Picture This | Can you tell us what astonishing news Bob Staake is trying to pass on with cartoons? | John Shea | CAR
| 531 | HTML   | December 14, 2003 | 536 | And the Horse He Rodin On | Come up with some words we can stick in the back of The Inker. | Josh Borken | Andrew Elby Dave Zarrow STY
| 532 | HTML  | December 21, 2003 | 537 | The New York Post | Liven up any article appearing in The Washington Post or its Web site over the next eight days by giving it an irresponsibly sensationalistic headline. | Milo Sauer | WAS HEA
| 533 | HTML  | December 28, 2003 | 538 | Try, Try Again | Enter any previous Invitational. Your entry must be substantially different from the original winners. | Drew Knoblauch | PRE
| 534 | HTML  | January 4, 2004 | 539 | Dead Letters | Pay tribute in verse to someone who died in 2003. | Bob Dalton | POE
| 535 | HTML   | January 11, 2004 | 540 | Revisionist History, or Badenov for You? | State any news event (or old event) in the style of the Rocky-and-Bullwinkle teasers about the next show. | Chris Doyle | CUL
| 536 | HTML  | January 18, 2004 | 541 | Celled Up the River | Give us a delicious scenario, in which a cellphone yakker's yakking could be taken profitably out of context. | Erika Reinfeld |
| 537 | HTML  | January 25, 2004 | 542 | Discombobulate Us | Come up with both an object/situation and a neologism for it, something that Bob Levey would never have stooped to print in his column. | Chris Doyle | WOR
| 538 | HTML  | February 1, 2004 | 543 | Read Our Leaps | Fill any of readers of The Washington Post on Sunday, Feb. 29, 2032, on: (a) the day's lead news story; (b) the highest-flying company and its business; (c) the best-selling self-help book; and/or (d) the day's winning Style Invitational entry. | Chris Doyle | WAS BUS LIT STY HIS
| 539 | HTML  | February 8, 2004 | 544 | You Gotta Have Heart | Write us some valentine sentiments from one particular person (real or fictional) to another. | Chris Doyle | POE
| 540 | HTML  | February 15, 2004 | 545 | Put It in Reverse | Spell a word backward and define it, with the definition relating in some way to the original word. | Tom Witte | LET
| 541 | HTML  | February 22, 2004 | 546 | A Nice Pair of Cities | Choose any two or more real U.S. towns and come up with a joint endeavor they would undertake. | Dudley Thompson | POL
| 542 | HTML  | February 29, 2004 | 547 | Give Us a Bad Name | Take an existing product or business name and pair it with an incompatible one. | Russell Beland | BUS
| 543 | HTML  | YEAR 12 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 7, 2004 | 548 | Inklings | Tell us about certain people's childhood experiences and behaviors that hint at their destinies. | Walt Johnston | CUL
| 544 | HTML  | March 14, 2004 | 549 | Show Us Your Best Quantities | Come up with novel units of measure, and explain or quantify them. | Joseph Anthony | SCI
| 545 | HTML  | March 21, 2004 | 550 | Spring Cleaning | Suggest creative uses for things you've already used, or never will use, or other disposable household thingies, singly or in combination. | Bird Waring |
| 546 | HTML  | March 28, 2004 | 551 | Lost in Translation | Find us some comical translations-and-back using Google translator. Feed some passage of English text into the tool--25 words max--and ask it to translate it into one of the five languages offered; then copy the result back into the tool and ask it to translate that back to English. | Kevin Mettinger | GOO LAN
| 547 | HTML  | April 4, 2004 | 552 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Breed any two of the horses on a list of those qualifying for this year's Triple Crown races, and tell us a good name for their foal. Maximum 18 characters, including spaces. | Kevin Cuddihy | HOR
| 548 | HTML  | April 11, 2004 | 553 | Picture This | Tell us what's going on in on or more of the provided cartoons. | Allan Moore | CAR
| 549 | HTML  | April 18, 2004 | 554 | Love the Tiny Tail Stain | Write an anagram based on a name or event that's been in the news recently. | Chris Doyle | ANA
| 550 | HTML  | April 25, 2004 | 555 | A Tsk, A Task | Come up with a super-wholesome passage of 25 words or fewer that would likely be banned by the admirable, ever-vigilant Neopets.com site. | Jane Auerbach | WOR
| 551 | HTML  | May 2, 2004 | 556 | So Zoo Us | Combine any two kinds of animals, give its name and describe it. | Greg Pearson | WOR
| 552 | HTML  | May 9, 2004 | 557 | Oh, for Namesakes! | Take two people, real or fictional, who share some element of their names and explain the difference between them. | Brendan Beary | DIF
| 553 | HTML  | May 16, 2004 | 558 | Set Us Right | Send us conservative-leaning humor is any of the provided genres. | Danny Bravman | JOK
| 554 | HTML  | May 23, 2004 | 559 | Your Slogan Here | Come up with a clever slogan or sign for a business. | Chris Doyle | Eric Murphy SLO BUS
| 555 | HTML  | May 30, 2004 | 560 | The 97.5-Meter Dash | Suggest some time- and cost-saving measures so the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens will open on time. | Marc Leibert | ATH
| 556 | HTML  | June 6, 2004 | 561 | Deform of a Question | Take any sentence appearing in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com today through June 14, and make up a question to which the sentence could be an answer. | Marc Leibert | WAS QUE
| 557 | HTML  | June 13, 2004 | 562 | The LMNs of Style | Write a funny sentence (or more) that you spell with only the sounds of the names of letters and those of numbers 1 through 9. | Milo Sauer | LET
| 558 | HTML  | June 20, 2004 | 563 | Take Two | Take any two of the provided items and explain how they resemble or differ from each other. | Mark Young | DIF
| 559 | HTML  | June 27, 2004 | 564 | Redefine Print | Redefine any word from the dictionary. | Chuck Smith | WOR
| 560 | HTML  | July 4, 2004 | 565 | Anthem Is as Anthem Does | Give us a verse for an alternative U.S. national anthem, set to any well-known tune. | Chris Doyle | POE
| 561 | HTML  | July 11, 2004 | 566 | Get Whack | Type a two-word phrase into the Google search engine that produces exactly one result. | Pam Sweeney | GOO
| 562 | HTML  | July 18, 2004 | 567 | A Running Gag | Explain how any of the provided bizarre cartoons by Bob Staake relates to the current presidential campaign. | Josh Tucker | CAR
| 563 | HTML  | July 25, 2004 | 568 | Tome Deftness | Make a pun or similar wordplay on a book title. | Wayne Rodgers | WOR LIT
| 564 | HTML  | August 1, 2004 | 569 | Murphy's Lore | Give Eric Murphy advice he deserves on the provided questions. | Mai Nguyen | QUE
| 565 | HTML  | August 8, 2004 | 570 | Timeline Rhyme Lines | Produce colorful chronological couplets about some historical event. They must rhyme and be in good meter. | Russell Beland | HIS POE
| 566 | HTML  | August 15, 2004 | 571 | A Tour de Fours | Create and define a word that includes T, H, E, and S in any order. The letters must appear consecutively. | Frank Mullen III | LET
| 567 | HTML  | August 22, 2004 | 572 | The Limerixicon | Supply a limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ai- through ar-. | Brendan Beary | LIM
| 568 | HTML  | August 29, 2004 | 573 | Thine Ad Goest Here | Propose biblical and other literary passage, poems, etc., that could benefit from product placement. | Peter Metrinko | POE REL LIT BUS
| 569 | HTML  | September 5, 2004 | 574 | Boor Us Silly | Come up with some unwise attempts at humor--one either likely to backfire or to create other unpleasant consequences. | Tom Witte | JOK
| 570 | HTML  | September 12, 2004 | 575 | T Hee Hee | Come up with new ideas for both front and back of the Loser T-shirts. | Brendan Beary | Russell Beland Sarah Gaymon TSH
| 571 | HTML  | September 19, 2004 | 576 | Well, Excuuuuse Us! | Come up with new excuses for any common human shortcoming or imperfection. | Erika Reinfeld |
| 572 | HTML  | September 26, 2004 | 577 | Teledubbies | Slightly change the title of a TV show, past or present, and describe it. | Jack Cackler | TEL WOR
| 573 | HTML  | October 3, 2004 | 578 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. Send us the questions. | Robert Levin | JEO
| 574 | HTML  | October 10, 2004 | 579 | Another Brilliant Contest! Do Enter! | Write us a sentence or phrase consisting of words beginning with consecutive letters, in the A-to-Z direction. | Lawrence McGuire | LET
| 575 | HTML  | October 17, 2004 | 580 | United Nations | Combine the names of any two countries in the world and describe the new hybrid country. | Brendan Beary | POL
| 576 | HTML  | October 24, 2004 | 581 | Evil Things in Store | Think of evil or just plain stupid practices that the staff of a retail or other establishment might perpetrate. | Michael Cisneros | BUS
| 577 | HTML  | October 31, 2004 | 582 | Perversery Rhymes | Update a nursery rhyme or children's song with an edgier text. | Joseph Romm | POE
| 578 | HTML  | November 7, 2004 | 583 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, from the Washington Post or its Web site from today through next Sunday, and reinterpret it by writing either a "bank headline"--or subtitle--or the first sentence of an article that changes the original meaning entirely. | Michelle Stupak | HEA
| 579 | HTML  | November 14, 2004 | 584 | Deliver Us a Post | Come up with some new Cabinet or other positions that the president could establish, and describe the job responsibilities. | Russell Beland | POL
| 580 | HTML  | November 21, 2004 | 585 | It's Parody Time | Offer, in the holiday spirit of goodwill, some advice--as constructive and unifying as Loserly suggestions always are--to our nation's leaders (or the loyal opposition) as we prepare for the next four years. This advice will be set to the tune of some winter holiday song, either religious or secular. | Barb Sarshik | POE
| 581 | HTML  | November 28, 2004 | 586 | God's Will (and Won't) | Complete either of the following: "If God hadn't wanted is to ----, God wouldn’t have ----"; "If God had wanted us to ----, God would have ----." | Steve Fahey | REL
| 582 | HTML  | December 5, 2004 | 587 | The B-List | Come up with an In-Out list for 2005, or other pairings. | Joseph Romm | CUL
| 583 | HTML  | December 12, 2004 | 588 | Gadget If You Can | Tell us what these nifty, indispensable items are. | John Conti | CAR
| 584 | HTML  | December 19, 2004 | 589 | Hyphen the Terrible (New Edition!) | Combine the beginning of any multi-syllabic word in this week's Invitational with the end of any other multi-syllabic word in this column (or in this week's Web supplement) to coin a new word, and then define it. | Jeff Brechlin | HYP WOR
| 585 | HTML  | December 26, 2004 | 590 | Send Us the Bill | Come up with a bill sponsored by any combination of the newly elected members of Congress and explain the purpose of the bill. | Angela Murphy-Walters | LEG
| 586 | HTML  | January 2, 2005 | 591 | Dead Letters | Write rhyming poems about notable personages who have died in the past year. | Brendan Beary | POE EPI
| 587 | HTML  | January 9, 2005 | 592 | We Got Gamy | Offer us a concise idea for a Super Bowl commercial, or some innovative halftime entertainment, or some inappropriate sponsors, or some ideas for improving the game itself. | Peter Larsen | ATH BUS CUL
| 588 |   | January 16, 2005 | 593 | Take This, Job, and … | Come up with some entertainingly awful things that a Job's comforter might offer. A Job's comforter is someone who seems to be offering sympathy but instead just makes the person feel worse, either intentionally or unintentionally. | Rob Poole |
| 589 | HTML  | January 23, 2005 | 594 | History Loves Company | Name an appropriate corporate sponsor for some historical event or for someone's life story. | Jim Getz | Jennifer LaFleur BUS HIS
| 590 | HTML  | January 30, 2005 | 595 | Listing Precariously | Take the two subject listings at the top of any page of the Yellow Pages and create a dictionary definition for the compound word they form. | Bruce Alter | WOR
| 591 | HTML  | February 6, 2005 | 596 | Take Her Words for It | Use the words of this week's Ask Amy advice column, as a pool from which to compose your own useful (or useless) thoughts. You may ignore or change capitalization or punctuation. | Bob Dalton | WOR
| 592 | HTML  | February 13, 2005 | 597 | Eccchsibits | Come up with some alternative museums and exhibits for the nation's capital. | Joseph Romm | WAS
| 593 | HTML  | February 20, 2005 | 598 | Site Gags | Come up with an appropriate name for a cafeteria--or meeting room, or an employee lounge, or some other workplace spot--for a particular institution. | Robin Grove | WOR BUS
| 594 | HTML  | February 27, 2005 | 599 | So What's the News? | Tell us what the illustrated events are. | Brendan Beary | CAR
| 595 | HTML  | March 6, 2005 | 600 | Top of the Inking | Tell us some ways the District of Columbia will change now that we have the Nationals. | Dudley Thompson | CUL ATH
| 596 | HTML  | YEAR 13 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 13, 2005 | 601 | Anticdotes | Give us an untrue anecdote in response to one of the provided Editor's Query topics. | Jeff Brechlin |
| 597 | HTML  | March 20, 2005 | 602 | Take a Letter -- Again | Take a word, term or name that begins with A, B, C or D; either add on letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word. | Seth Brown | LET
| 598 | HTML  | March 27, 2005 | 603 | Sui Genesis | Take one of two of the 50 chapters of the KJV Book of Genesis and draw thou from them, using words in the order in which they appear in the original, your own passage. | Michelle Stupak | REL WOR
| 599 | HTML  | April 3, 2005 | 604 | Fun for the Roses | Breed any two of the horses on a list of those qualifying for this year's Triple Crown races, and tell us a good name for their foal. The name of the foal must be no more than 18 characters, including spaces. | Lori Price | HOR
| 600 | HTML  | April 10, 2005 | 605 | Truly Stupendous Ideas | Name two people with the same initials (the people can be living or dead, real or fictional) and explain how they are similar or different. | Mark Eckenwiler | DIF LET
| 601 | HTML  | April 17, 2005 | 606 | The News Could be Verse | Translate the fine prose of Washington Post articles into verse. Choose any article appearing in The Post of on its Web site from April 17 through April 25. | Brendan Beary | POE
| 602 | HTML  | April 24, 2005 | 607 | Contest Fodder Created! | Produce absurdly parochial views of historical events. | Anne Clark | HIS
| 603 | HTML  | May 1, 2005 | 608 | Comeback Next Week | Come up with original snide retorts to various rude questions or comments. | Pam Dalrymple | Roger Dalrymple
| 604 | HTML  | May 8, 2005 | 609 | A2D2 | Give us some funny "corrections" to brighten up Page A2. | Elden Carnahan | WAS
| 605 | HTML  | May 15, 2005 | 610 | MASH | Find two well-known movies, plays, or TV shows whose title have a significant word in common, combine their titles, and describe the hybrid. | Paul Whittemore | MOV LIT TEL WOR
| 606 | HTML  | May 22, 2005 | 611 | Ask Backwards, Erudite Edition | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the sophisticated answers. You supply the questions. | Barbara Turner | JEO
| 607 | HTML  | May 29, 2005 | 612 | Oh, and One More Thing | What was the thing that didn't make the cut on any list? | Tom Witte |
| 608 | HTML  | June 5, 2005 | 613 | Tour de Fours II | Create and define a word that includes, consecutively, E, R, A and N. in any order. | Danny Bravman | LET
| 609 | HTML  | June 12, 2005 | 614 | In-Stock Characters | Pitch us an idea for a summer movie featuring two or more of the provided characters. | Brendan Beary | MOV
| 610 | HTML  | June 19, 2005 | 615 | Airy Persiflage | Write some jokes you'd like to hear in an airport announcement. | Stephen Dudzik | JOK
| 611 | HTML  | June 26, 2005 | 616 | Picture This, Kids | Supply title and one-sentence synopsis for Bob Staake new kids' project, incorporating any of the provided cartoons. | Ron Stanley | CAR
| 612 | HTML  | July 3, 2005 | 617 | Best the Best | Write something about any famous personage that uses only the letters in his or her name. | Chris Doyle | LET
| 613 | HTML  | July 10, 2005 | 618 | Of D.C. I Sing | Give us a song about Washington, set to a recognizable tune. | Barb Sarshik | POE MUS
| 614 | HTML  | July 17, 2005 | 619 | WordCount Us In | Write a poem of no more than four lines containing four or more consecutive words on the WordCount list. They must occur in the sentence in the order they appear on the list. | Michelle Stupak | POE WOR
| 615 | HTML  | July 24, 2005 | 620 | Keep the Empress Employed | Suggest some original, creative ways that The Post could increase its circulation. | Art Grinath | WAS
| 616 | HTML  | July 31, 2005 | 621 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article in washingtonpost.com anytime through Aug. 8 and supply a question it could answer. | Russell Beland | WAS QUE
| 617 | HTML  | August 7, 2005 | 622 | Our Sunday Constitutional | Write an new article or amendment to the Constitution, using on the words contained in the existing document (including amendments). | Marty McCullen | POL WOR
| 618 | HTML  | August 14, 2005 | 623 | Try to Remember | Give us an original mnemonic for any list that someone might want to remember. | Chris Doyle | WOR
| 619 | HTML  | August 21, 2005 | 624 | Limerixicon 2 | Supply a limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with bd- through bl-. | Chris Doyle | LIM
| 620 | HTML  | August 28, 2005 | 625 | Haven't Seen It | Make up a new plot for an existing movie title. | Kevin Jamison | MOV
| 621 | HTML  | September 4, 2005 | 626 | Course Light | Come up with a comical college class, along with a description for the course catalog. | Douglas Frank | CUL
| 622 | HTML  | September 11, 2005 | 627 | Per-Verse | Write a limerick or other short poem with comically awful rhyming. | Jesse Frankovich | LIM POE
| 623 | HTML  | September 18, 2005 | 628 | You Gotta Have Connections | Choose any two or more items from the provided truly random list and describe how they are alike or different. | David Smith | DIF
| 624 |   | September 25, 2005 | 629 | Odd Couplings | Marry or otherwise combine famous names and supply to result. | Marcy Alvo |
| 625 |   | October 2, 2005 | 630 | Hyphen the Terrible | Combine the beginning and end of any two multisyllabic words in this week's Invitational, and then define the compound. | Chris Doyle | Tom Witte HYP WOR
| 626 |   | October 9, 2005 | 631 | Picture This | What's going on in any of these cartoons? | Elwood Fitzner | CAR
| 627 |   | October 16, 2005 | 632 | Live On, Sweet, Earnest Reader (Inc.) | Give us an original backronym for a company or product. A backronym is a fake etymology that often gets in a little dig at the subject. | Jonathan Guberman | WOR BUS
| 628 |   | October 23, 2005 | 633 | Your Secret Here! | Send us some original secrets (they don't have to be true). | Art Grinath |
| 629 |   | October 30, 2005 | 634 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from today through next Sunday, and change its meaning by adding either a "bank headline," or subtitle, or the first sentence of an article that might appear under it. | G. Smith | HEA
| 630 |   | November 6, 2005 | 635 | I've Told You a Hundred Times | Enter any Style Invitational from Week 536 to Week 631. Your entry must be substantially different from than original winners. | Chris Doyle | PRE
| 631 |   | November 13, 2005 | 636 | A Song From Tex Arcana | Write a verse of a song about sea urchin sushi or any of the other provided ostensibly unlyrical topics. | Brendan Beary | POE MUS
| 632 |   | November 20, 2005 | 637 | Full Steam Ahead | Write a steamy passage of a novel that's ostensibly by some well-known person who isn't a novelist. | Jeff Brechlin | LIT
| 633 |   | November 27, 2005 | 638 | The Little Bummer Boy | Come up with an idea (and title, if you like) for an original Christmas movie or TV special that provides an antidote to all the sap, and give us a brief synopsis. | P. H. Stevenson | MOV TEL
| 634 |   | December 4, 2005 | 639 | What's the Small Idea? | Do you have a senseless idea for improving the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans? | Kevin Dopart | CUL
| 635 |   | December 11, 2005 | 640 | Whassa Motto Wid You? | Give us a slogan or motto for any of the states, the District or the U.S. Territories. | Phil Frankenfeld | SLO POL
| 636 |   | December 18, 2005 | 641 | Dreck of All Trades | Come up with a business that combines two or more disparate products or services, and tell us its name and/or something else funny about it. | Jane Auerbach | BUS
| 637 |   | December 25, 2005 | 642 | It's Open Season | Come up with a brand-new word and its definition. The words must begin with O, P, Q, R or S. | Stephen Dudzik | LET WOR
| 638 |   | January 1, 2006 | 643 | The Post's Mortems | Give us a rhyming poem about some notable who died in 2005. | Brendan Beary | POE EPI
| 639 |   | January 8, 2006 | 644 | Winter Limp Picks | Brighten up the Winter Olympics with some new events and rule. Alternatively, you can suggest a commercial or ad campaign that could be tied in with the Winter Games or one of its sports. | Joel Knanishu | ATH BUS
| 640 |   | January 15, 2006 | 645 | A Hearty Har Har | Write up a Valentine's sentiment to any personage, or to someone in some generic category. | Kevin Dopart | Chris Doyle POE
| 641 |   | January 22, 2006 | 646 | Warped Perspectives | Tell us how two different types of people, animals, organizations, etc., would interpret any of the provided cartoons. | Pam Sweeney | CAR
| 642 |   | January 29, 2006 | 647 | Paste Imperfect | Change a headline or sentence that appears in the Post or on washingtonpost.com through Feb. 6 either by deleting up to 40 consecutive characters from it or by adding 40 consecutive characters from the same article or ad. | Stephen Dudzik | HEA LET
| 643 |   | February 5, 2006 | 648 | Caller IDiot | Name a product or company and supply a stupid question to ask the consumer hotline person. | Kevin Dopart | BUS QUE
| 644 |   | February 12, 2006 | 649 | Across the Wide What? | Give us some Virginia-appropriate lyrics for "Shenandoah." | Chris Doyle | POE MUS
| 645 |   | February 19, 2006 | 650 | King Us | Give us a scenario for a horror novel based on an anyday item. | Russell Beland | LIT
| 646 |   | February 26, 2006 | 651 | Show Us Some Character | Add a character to a book or movie and tell us what happens in it. | Jay Shuck | LIT MOV
| 647 |   | March 5, 2006 | 652 | Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. You supply the questions. | Sue Lin Chong | JEO
| 648 |   | YEAR 14 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 12, 2006 | 653 | It's the Eponymy, Stupid | Coin a word or expression based on the name of a well-known person, define it, and perhaps use it in a sentence | Russell Beland | WOR
| 649 |   | March 19, 2006 | 654 | It Plays to Recycle | Come up with funny ways to recycle things, people, writing (except for your old Invitational entries) or ideas. | David Prevar |
| 650 |   | March 26, 2006 | 655 | Laughing Inside | Take any article appearing in The Washington Post or online on washingtonpost.com from today through April 3 -- the more serious and/or mundane its headline, the better -- and write a funny poem or other passage using only words that appear in that article. | Chris Doyle | POE
| 651 |   | April 2, 2006 | 656 | It's Post Time | Breed any two from a list of 100 of the more than 400 3-year-old racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races, and name their hypothetical foal. The foal's name cannot exceed 18 characters and spaces combined. | Mark Eckenwiler | HOR
| 652 |   | April 9, 2006 | 657 | Nuts Fruit | Send in funny (but printable) images of real pieces of fruit. | Jeff Brechlin | PIX
| 653 |   | April 16, 2006 | 658 | Not in the Cards | Send us ideas for cards that would likely be ruled "Funny, But No" by Hallmark by F&YYY by the Empress. | Randy Lee | LET CUL
| 654 |   | April 23, 2006 | 659 | Tell Us a Fib | Compose a six-line poem with the following number of syllables per line: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. It must be about a person or topic currently in the news, and two successive lines must rhyme. | Brendan Beary | POE CUL
| 655 |   | April 30, 2006 | 660 | Foaling Down: The Next Generation | Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name THEIR foal. | Pam Sweeney | HOR
| 656 |   | May 7, 2006 | 661 | Name Any Good Movies Lately? | Give us a funny new title for an existing movie. | Tom Witte | MOV
| 657 |   | May 14, 2006 | 662 | How Low Will You Go? | Humiliate yourself for ink, and a stupid prize. | Fred Dawson | STY
| 658 |   | May 21, 2006 | 663 | Worth at Least a Dozen Words | Interpret any of the provided cartoons as you see fit in a caption. | Michelle Stupak | CAR
| 659 |   | May 28, 2006 | 664 | A Thousand Times?! No! | Come up with a new signature line for Russell Beland's -- or anyone else's -- e-mails. | Howard Walderman |
| 660 |   | June 4, 2006 | 665 | Your One-in-a-Million | Coin the millionth words in the English language and define it. The word must end in -ion. | Marty McCullen | WOR
| 661 |   | June 11, 2006 | 666 | Bedevil Us | Give a mini-sermon explaining how some innocuous object or event signals the End of Days. | Brendan Beary | REL
| 662 |   | June 18, 2006 | 667 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com anytime from now through June 26 and supply a question it could answer. | Kevin Dopart | WAS QUE
| 663 |   | June 25, 2006 | 668 | Cut From the Chase | Write an original John-Bunnell-style wrap-up to a crime story -- or one for a more minor transgression. | Bob Sprague | CUL
| 664 |   | July 2, 2006 | 669 | Huddled Messes | Suggest some bad advice for new arrivals to this country (legal or illegal). | Gordon Labow | POL
| 665 |   | July 9, 2006 | 670 | A Test of Character | Change a word or phrase by only one letter -- substitute one letter for another, add a letter or transpose two letters -- and explain how they are different or similar. | Ben Aronin | LET
| 666 |   | July 16, 2006 | 671 | Join Now! | Hyphenate the beginning and end of any two multi-syllabic words appearing anywhere in the July 16 Style or Sunday Arts section, and then define the compound. | Kevin Dopart | HYP
| 667 |   | July 23, 2006 | 672 | Just Sign This | Write a funny message for an overhead highway sign. | Lisa Younce | WOR
| 668 |   | July 30, 2006 | 673 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Washington Post or on Washingtonpost.com from July 30 through Aug. 7 and reinterpret it by adding either a "bank headline," or subtitle, or the first sentence of an article that might appear under it. | Fred Winter | HEA
| 669 |   | August 6, 2006 | 674 | Limerixicon 3 | Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ca-. | Chris Doyle | LIM LET
| 670 |   | August 13, 2006 | 675 | Cut Us Some Slack | Come up with humorous ways to be lazy. | Art Grinath |
| 671 |   | August 20, 2006 | 676 | Tour de Fours III | Coin and define a word containing -- with no other letters between them, but in any order you like -- the letters L, E, A and F. | Fran Pryluck | LET
| 672 |   | August 27, 2006 | 677 | The News Gets Verse | Sum up wittily in verse -- but not a limerick -- any article appearing in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Aug. 28 through Sept. 4. | David Smith | POE
| 673 |   | September 3, 2006 | 678 | Limerick Smackdown! | Chris Doyle and Brendan Beary will go head to head in a series of 10 limericks. | | LIM
| 674 |   | September 10, 2006 | 679 | Ask Backwards | Here are the answers. You supply the questions to as many as you dare. | Elwood Fitzner | JEO
| 675 |   | September 17, 2006 | 680 | Rendered Speechless | Provide dialogue to fill the balloons in any of these cartoons. | Ned Bent | CAR
| 676 |   | September 24, 2006 | 681 | Ticket to Write | Write a jingle for a business (or its product), organization or government agency, set to a Beatles song. | Jay Shuck | POE BUS POL MUS
| 677 |   | October 1, 2006 | 682 | Punkin'd! | Send us a funny, clever, entirely original photo featuring one or more pumpkins and/or other vegetables. | Jane Auerbach | PIX
| 678 |   | October 8, 2006 | 683 | What a Piece of Work | String together words in a single scene, or two consecutive scenes, of "Hamlet" to produce on or more funny sentences, preferably unrelated to the original content. The words must appear in the order in which they appear in the play. | Dennis Lindsay | LIT WOR
| 679 |   | October 15, 2006 | 684 | Backtricking | Spell a word backward and define the result, somehow relating the definition to the original word. | Tom Witte | LET
| 680 |   | October 22, 2006 | 685 | Thank it Over | Tell us some things to be thankful for. | Bruce Alter | CUL
| 681 |   | October 29, 2006 | 686 | It's Baaaaack! | Explain why you, or anyone else in particular, ought to have this fine oil-on-panel by Fred Dawson of Beltsville, or what it might be used for. | Art Grinath | ART
| 682 |   | November 5, 2006 | 687 | What Were They Thinking? | Tell us (A) What someone might say in some situation, and (B) what that person was actually thinking when he said A. | Peter Metrinko |
| 683 |   | November 12, 2006 | 688 | Making Short Work | Write a humorous six-word story. | Michael Levy | LIT WOR
| 684 |   | November 19, 2006 | 689 | Busted Play | Come up with a more objectionable or stupid toy than a working fart-powered toy rocket. | Chuck Smith | BUS
| 685 |   | November 26, 2006 | 690 | Funnies: How Time Flies | Pull Billy of "The Family Circus" -- or any of his comic strip neighbors in The Washington Post -- out of his time warp to a different age, era or place, and provide a short storyline or dialogue or caption. | Martin Bancroft | WAS COM
| 686 |   | December 3, 2006 | 691 | Haven't Got a Clue | Make all the clues in the provided crossword ooh-clever or at least ah-that's-funny, even the little words. | Chris Doyle | CRO WOR
| 687 |   | December 10, 2006 | 692 | Reinkernation | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 640 through Week 688. Every entry must include the word "three" or "third" or a creative variation. | Kevin Dopart | PRE
| 688 |   | December 17, 2006 | 693 | Everything Being Sequel | Give a brief scenario for the sequel to a well-known movie. | Andy Bassett | MOV
| 689 |   | December 24, 2006 | 694 | Hopelessly Ever After | Offer up a gloomy interpretation of any ungloomy piece of writing. | Cy Gardner | LIT
| 690 |   | December 31, 2006 | 695 | Dead Letters | Write a poem about someone who died in 2006. | Chris Doyle | POE EPI
| 691 |   | January 7, 2007 | 696 | Send Us the Bill | Come up legislation the newly-elected members of Congress might sponsor together. | Pam Sweeney | LEG
| 692 |   | January 14, 2007 | 697 | We Beg You To Differ | Take any two items from the truly random provided list and explain why they are different or why they are similar. | Dave Komornik | DIF
| 693 |   | January 21, 2007 | 698 | Let's Get Personnel | Send us some humorously creative questions that a job interviewer would ask an applicant, or some questions it might be fun to ask the interviewer. | Russell Beland | BUS
| 694 |   | January 28, 2007 | 699 | Our Greatest Hit | Take a word, term or name that begins with E, F, G or H; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word. | Brendan Beary | Barbara Turner LET
| 695 |   | February 4, 2007 | 700 | Stump Us | Come up with someone's slogan for the 2008 presidential campaign. | Ira Allen | POL
| 696 |   | February 11, 2007 | 701 | Untitlement | Here are the covers for what just might be Bob Staake's next four books. What are they called and what are they about? | Andrea Kelly | CAR ART LIT
| 697 |   | February 18, 2007 | 702 | Unreal Facts | Come up with a comically false factoid. | Joseph Romm |
| 698, 699 |   | February 25, 2007 | | (We) Give Us a Break | The Empress takes a day off from judging to go lounge poolside in the Imperial Hammock, taking care first to don the Imperial Parka and Earmuffs and Moon Boots. | |
| 699 | HTML E  | March 4, 2007 | 703 | Freak Trade Agreements | Think of one thing to trade for another, and supply a short and funny explanation. | Rick Haynes |
| 700 |   | YEAR 15 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 11, 2007 | 704 | Another Game of Tag | Create vanity plates for well-known people, real or fictional. | Phyllis Reinhard | CUL
| 701 |   | March 18, 2007 | 705 | Simile Outrageous | Come up with funny analogies, perhaps with some 21st-century references. | Jay Shuck | ANL
| 699 |   | March 25, 2007 | 706 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from March 24 through April 2 and come up with a question it could answer. | Russell Beland | WAS QUE
| 702 |   | April 1, 2007 | 707 | What Would YOU Do? | Use only the words appearing in "The Cat in the Hat" to create your own work of "literature" of no more than 75 words. | Chris Doyle | WOR LIT
| 703 |   | April 8, 2007 | 708 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Breed any two from a list of 100 of the horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal. | Mark Eckenwiler | HOR
| 704 |   | April 15, 2007 | 709 | A Return Engagement | Come up with some novel change to the tax code: a tax on something ought to be taxed, a credit for something that should be rewarded, what the $3 should go to instead of presidential campaigns, etc. | Ernie Staples | POL
| 705 |   | April 22, 2007 | 710 | Aw, Shoot | Send us a funny, clever, entirely original photo featuring kitchen utensils and/or small household tools. | Jeff Brechlin | PIX
| 706 |   | April 29, 2007 | 711 | Join Now! | Hyphenate the beginning and end of any two multi-syllabic words appearing anywhere in the April 29 or May 6 Style or Sunday Arts section, and then define the compound. | Dennis Lindsay | HYP WOR
| 707 |   | May 6, 2007 | 712 | Another Time Around the Track | Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in the results of Week 708, and name THEIR foal. | Pam Sweeney | HOR
| 708 |   | May 13, 2007 | 713 | Painings | Name and interpret any of the provided paintings by Fred Dawson. | Glen Crawford | ART
| 709 |   | May 20, 2007 | 714 | Amalgamated Steal | Merge two or more company or product names into a new, ORIGINAL company or product. | Gregory Bartolett | BUS
| 710 |   | May 27, 2007 | 715 | Your Mug Here | Send us an idea for a slogan for the back of the new Loser T-shirt. | Russell Beland | Chris Doyle Lawrence McGuire Beverley Sharp TSH
| 711 |   | June 3, 2007 | 716 | The Hard Spell | Write a humorous poem featuring one of the 75 words we've selected rom this year's National Spelling Bee. | Brendan Beary | POE
| 712 |   | June 10, 2007 | 717 | Pitch Us a No-Hitter | Send us some genuine Googlenopes. A Googlenope is a phrase or very brief sentence that, entered into the Google search engine with quotation marks around it, produces no hits. | Malcolm Fleschner | GOO
| 713 |   | June 17, 2007 | 718 | Put Our Heads Together | Create a new, funny headline from the words of any headlines appearing anywhere in a single day's Washington Post (or on washingtonpost.com) | Mae Scanlan | HEA
| 714 |   | June 24, 2007 | 719 | We Har the World | Come up with a creative name for a sports team for a town or city anywhere outside the United States. | Elwood Fitzner | ATH
| 715 |   | July 1, 2007 | 720 | The Course of Humor Events | Sum up a historical event in a two-line rhyme or other clever and pithy epigram. | Chris Doyle | POE HIS
| 716 |   | July 8, 2007 | 721 | Know Your Market | For any of the provided photos, supply two captions: one that would appeal to The Style Invitational and one that would appear to the Harrisburg Patriot-News. | Ben Aronin | CAP STY
| 717 |   | July 15, 2007 | 722 | Let's Play Nopardy! | We supply 12 phrases and you get to provide questions they might answer. The phrases were entries in our Week 717 contest, which asked for Googlenopes -- phrases that showed no previous hits from the Google search engine. | Steve Ettinger |
| 718 |   | July 22, 2007 | 723 | Name Your Poison | Create a name and recipe for a cocktail and, if you like, describe when it might be served. | Roy Ashley |
| 719 |   | July 29, 2007 | 724 | Abridged Too Far | Sum up a book, play or movie in a humorous rhyming verse of two to four lines. | Ellen Raphaeli | POE LIT MOV
| 720 | HTML  | August 5, 2007 | 725 | Beggars For Description | Describe, without being boring, a cartoon to fit any of the provided captions. | Cy Gardner | CAR
| 721 | HTML  | August 12, 2007 | 726 | Limerixicon 4 | Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary beginning with cl- through co-. | Chris Strolin | LIM WOR
| 722 | HTML  | August 19, 2007 | 727 | We Get a C-Section | Tell us some pros and cons of moving The Style Invitational to the Saturday Style section; or write us up some free promo-ad copying announcing the move. | Seth Brown | STY
| 723 | HTML  | August 25, 2007 | 728 | Tour de Fours IV | Coin and definea humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order you like -- the letters S, A, T and R. | Tom Witte | LET
| 724 | HTML  | September 1, 2007 | 729 | Otherwordly Visions | Take any sentence in an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 1 through Sept. 10 and translate it into "plain English." | Russ Taylor | WAS WOR
| 725 | HTML  | September 8, 2007 | 730 | Time-Wastes For Everyman | Describe activities that make entering The Style Invitational seem like a constructive use of one's time. | Anne Paris | STY
| 726 | HTML  | September 15, 2007 | 731 | Doo Process | Describe for us a wildly inefficient and ridiculous way to produce or prepare an ordinary dish or beverage. | Ellen Raphaeli |
| 727 | HTML  | September 22, 2007 | 732 | The Chain Gang | Supply a chain of 25 names -- they may be names of people, places, organizations, products, etc., but they must be names -- beginning and ending with "George W. Bush." | Danny Bravman | POL
| 728 | HTML  | September 29, 2007 | 733 | Just Drop It, Okay? | Drop the first letter from an actual word or term to make a new word or term, and define it. | Deanna Busick | LET WOR
| 729 | HTML  | October 6, 2007 | 734 | Turnaround Time | Write a rhyming couplet containing two words that are anagrams of each other. | Brendan Beary | POE ANA
| 730 | HTML  | October 13, 2007 | 735 | Look Back in Inker | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 680 through Week 731. | Anne Paris | PRE
| 731 | html  | October 20, 2007 | 736 | So, Should I Drive Like Your Brother? | Ask a car-related question that would make the Car Guys crack up. If you're not into cars, you can also post a question for advice columnist Ask Amy or etiquette columnist Miss Manners. | Chris Rollins | QUE
| 732 | html  | October 27, 2007 | 737 | No River, No Woods | Send us a funny parody of a well-known song, with lyrics that commemorate an occasion other than Christmas or Hanukkah. | Brendan Beary | POE HIS
| 733 | html  | November 3, 2007 | 738 | So What's To Liken? | Take any two items from the utterly random list above and explain how they are different or how they are similar. | Chuck Smith | DIF
| 734 | html  | November 10, 2007 | 739 | Lies, All Lies | Give us some humorous fictional revelation about a current or past political figure. | Joel Knanishu | HIS POL
| 735 | html  | November 17, 2007 | 740 | Give Us a Hint | Offer clues in various situations that something isn't working out well. | Ben Aronin |
| 736 | html  | November 24, 2007 | 741 | Well, What Do You Know? | Tell us what Major Life Lessons can be derived from any of these venues or situations. | Fred Dawson |
| 737 | html  | December 1, 2007 | 742 | Clue Us In | Give us a whole new set of clues to a crossword puzzle penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache. | John O'Byrne | CRO
| 738 | html  | December 8, 2007 | 743 | Picture This | Write a caption for any of these Bob Staake cartoons. | Roger Dalrymple | CAR
| 739 | html  | December 15, 2007 | 744 | You OED Us One | Make up a humorous and false definition for any of the words listed below. | Bill Spencer | WOR
| 740 | html  | December 22, 2007 | 745 | Hurry Up and Slow Down! | Suggest particular ways that would slow life down, or ways that would speed it up. | Christopher Lamora | CUL
| 741 | html  | December 29, 2007 | 746 | We Err The World | Give us a motto or short slogan for any country in the world. | Thomas Murphy | SLO POL
| 742 | html  | January 5, 2008 | 747 | Boeing Us Silly | Suggest some comical ways to improve air travel, either in general or for yourself. | Beverley Sharp | CUL
| 743 |   | January 12, 2008 | 748 | Dead Letters | Write a humorous poem about a well-known personage who died in 2007. | Brendan Beary | POE EPI
| 744 | html  | January 19, 2008 | 749 | Opus 266, No. 3 | Take any common word or two-word term beginning with any letter from A through H and give it a new definition. | Peter Metrinko | Pie Snelson LET
| 745 | html  | January 26, 2008 | 750 | Hit Us With Your Best Shot: Photo Contest No. 4 | Illustrate, any way you like, any of the provided five captions with your own original photo. | Jeff Brechlin | PIX
| 746 |   | February 2, 2008 | 751 | Strike Gold | Slightly change the name of an existing or former TV show to create a program that can scab the writers' strike. | Wilson Varga | TEL
| 747 | html  | February 9, 2008 | 752 | The Might-Mates Right | Fill out any of these five "you just might" joke-templates. | Kevin Dopart | JOK
| 748 | html  | February 16, 2008 | 753 | Hot Off The Riddle | Supply a simple riddle and both the wholesome answer and the (printable) Invitational answer. | | JOK
| 749 | html  | February 23, 2008 | 753a | Get In Your Last Shot: Photo Contest's Final Days | No new contest this week. While the sun never seems to set on the Empress, even she ventures outside the Forbidden City once in a while. | |
| 749 | HTML   | March 1, 2008 | 754 | Canny Similarities | Cite a humorous "uncanny similarity" between any two of the very different people listed above. | Kelton Vincent | Larry Yungk DIF
| 751 | html  | YEAR 16 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 8, 2008 | 755 | Take Another 'Whack | Send us a phrase of two or more words that produces exactly one Web page on the Google search engine and describe the phrase. | Michael Levy | GOO
| 752 | html  | March 15, 2008 | 756 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from March 15 through 24 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. | Christopher Lamora | HEA
| 750 | html  | March 22, 2008 | 757 | Gorey Thoughts From A to Z | Send us some rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. | Beth Baniszewski | POE LET
| 753 | html  | March 29, 2008 | 758 | Wrong Address | Using any of the words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in whatever order you like, create your own passage. | Barry Koch | HIS WOR
| 754 | html  | April 5, 2008 | 759 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Breed any two of the 100 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown and provide an appropriate name for their foal. | Cy Gardner | HOR
| 755 |   | April 12, 2008 | 760 | Whacky Buildup | Describe any of these Googlewhacks in the form of a question, "Jeopardy"-style. | Kevin Dopart | GOO JEO
| 756 |   | April 19, 2008 | 761 | Strip Mining | Supply the text for any or all three of these Bob Staake comic strips. | Randy Lee | CAR
| 757 |   | April 26, 2008 | 762 | Look This Up in Your Funk & Wagnalls | Supply the pair of terms listed at the top of a page of any print dictionary to indicate the first and last listings on the page, and define that hyphenated term. | Pam Dalrymple | WOR
| 758 |   | May 3, 2008 | 763 | Another Time Around the Track | Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name THEIR foal. | Kevin Dopart | Pam Sweeney HOR
| 759 |   | May 10, 2008 | 764 | Can You Up Chuck? | Come up with entirely new and funny Chuck Norris Facts. | Robert Gallagher | CUL
| 760 |   | May 17, 2008 | 765 | It's Doo-Dah Day | Write humorous lyrics commemorating any of the 50 states of the District, set to any of these Stephen Foster songs. | Barry Koch | POE POL
| 761 |   | May 24, 2008 | 766 | Think to Shudder | Come up with scenarios that are even more awkward (and more imaginative) than the wincers mentioned above. | David Prevar |
| 762 |   | May 31, 2008 | 767 | Questionable Journalism | Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in the Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from May 31 through June 9 and come up with a question it might answer. | Beverley Sharp | WAS QUE
| 763 |   | June 7, 2008 | 768 | The Events Described Herein Are Entirely Fictitious | Come up with fictitious movie trivia. | Russell Beland | MOV
| 764 |   | June 14, 2008 | 769 | Splice Work If You Can Get It | Combine two words -- overlapping by at least two letters -- into what's know by polysyllabic types as a portmanteau word, and by the rest of us as mash word, and define it. | Rick Haynes | WOR
| 765 |   | June 21, 2008 | 770 | A Knack for Anachronism | Take a famous historical moment, literary passage, or movie scene and place it in an entirely different age. | Rick Haynes | Peter Metrinko HIS LIT MOV
| 766 |   | June 28, 2008 | 771 | Groaner's Manuals | Come up with a humorous name for a guide or manual for, or a book about, a particular enterprise or organization. | Beverley Sharp | WOR BUS
| 767 |   | July 5, 2008 | 772 | Make It Simile, Stupid | Translate a sentence or two of literature or other good writing so that "Los Angeles residents under 40" can appreciate it. | Mike Ostapiej | LAN LIT CUL
| 768 |   | July 12, 2008 | 773 | Always Looking for Sects | Coin a religion or belief system and tell us its basic tenet or distinguishing characteristic. | Lawrence McGuire | REL
| 769 | html  | July 19, 2008 | 774 | Tour De Forks | Supply a name for a restaurant dish named after someone (or some product or organization) and describe it. | Kevin Dopart | BUS CUL
| 770 |   | July 26, 2008 | 775 | Ad-dition | Combine the beginning and end of any two words appearing in any single advertisement in The Post or on washingtonpost.com, from today through Aug. 4, and then define the new word. | Beth Morgan | HYP WOR
| 771 |   | August 2, 2008 | 776 | An Act of Sunny Side | Note the silver lining in some otherwise disappointing turn of events. | Drew Bennett |
| 772 |   | August 9, 2008 | 777 | Limerixicon 5 | Supply a humorous limerick featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters da-. | Chris Doyle | LIM WOR
| 773 |   | August 16, 2008 | 778 | Tied Games | Combine any two sports or nonathletic activities into a single sport or game. | Hugh Pullen | ATH
| 774 |   | August 23, 2008 | 779 | Gripe for the Picking | Rant about any issue that wouldn't make your top 100 for airing in The Post. | Chris Rollins | WAS
| 775 |   | August 30, 2008 | 780 | Location, Location, Location | Say how you know you're in a particular place. | Brendan Beary |
| 776 |   | September 6, 2008 | 781 | Our Greatest Hit | Start with a word or multi-word term that begins with I, J, K or L; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose tow adjacent letters; and define the new word. | Barry Koch | LET WOR
| 777 |   | September 13, 2008 | 782 | That's the Ticket! | Explain why any of the items on the list below is qualified to be President of the United States. | Rick Wood | POL
| 778 |   | September 20, 2008 | 783 | The Shill Game | Name a celebrity or fictional character to endorse a real product or company. | Marty McCullen | BUS CUL
| 779 |   | September 27, 2008 | 784 | Words to The Wiseacres | Give us some proverbs for 21st-century life. | Michael Dailey | CUL
| 780 |   | October 4, 2008 | 785 | The Ballad Box | Write a short, humorous song somehow relating to the presidential campaign, set to a familiar tune. | Andy Pike | Barb Sarshik POE POL
| 781 |   | October 11, 2008 | 786 | Top of the Staake | So get your thoughts provoked for No. Umpteen of our cartoon caption contest. | Ned Bent | CAR
| 782 |   | October 18, 2008 | 787 | Tour de Fours V | Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order -- the letters M, N and E. | Tom Witte | LET WOR
| 783 |   | October 25, 2008 | 788 | The Back End of a Bulwer | Give us a comically terrible ending of a novel. | LuAnn Bishop | LIT
| 784 |   | November 1, 2008 | 789 | Doctrine in The House? | State a humorous, original "doctrine" for a person or other entity. | Kevin Mellema | POL
| 785 |   | November 8, 2008 | 790 | If Only! | Explain how the world would be different had some event not occurred. | Chris Doyle | POL HIS CUL
| 786 |   | November 15, 2008 | 791 | The 1K Club | Supply a chain of 20 names -- they may be names of people, places, organizations, products, etc., but they must be names -- beginning and ending with "Chris Doyle." | Brendan Beary | STY
| 787 |   | November 22, 2008 | 792 | Clue Us In | Compile a set of funny alternative clues to a crossword penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache. | Judith Cottrill | CRO
| 788 |   | November 29, 2008 | 793 | Take The Fifth | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 725 through Week 789. Each entry must include the word "five" of "fifth" or something fiveish, or -- depending on your favorite anniversary tradition -- something involving (a) wood or (b) silverware. | Rob Cohen | PRE
| 789 |   | December 6, 2008 | 794 | Ripped Off From the Headlines | Send us some Onion-type headlines. | Malcolm Fleschner | HEA
| 790 |   | December 13, 2008 | 795 | Stimulate Us | Tell us what the government ought to be spending our money on. | Russ Taylor | POL
| 791 |   | December 20, 2008 | 796 | Sincerest Flattery | Make up a pun on a familiar name of a real of fictional person and provide a fitting description or quote. | Christopher Lamora | JOK
| 792 |   | December 27, 2008 | 797 | Be Resolute | Make a humorous resolution for some particular person or institution to accomplish next year. | Christopher Lamora | POL BUS
| 793 |   | January 3, 2009 | 798 | Dead Letters | Write a humorous poem commemorating someone who died in 2008. | Jeff Brechlin | POE EPI
| 794 |   | January 10, 2009 | 799 | Send Us the Bill | Come up with legislation that, given their names, two or more freshman senators or representatives might sponsor together. | Dudley Thompson | LEG
| 795 |   | January 17, 2009 | 800 | Compairison | Briefly define or sum up an existing word or short phrase, then change it very slightly and do the same with the result. | Lawrence McGuire | WOR
| 796 |   | January 24, 2009 | 801 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. You supply one or more of the questions. | Kevin Dopart | JEO
| 797 |   | January 31, 2009 | 802 | Dreck TV | Suggest a new cable TV channel, with a description or example of its programming. | John O'Byrne | TEL
| 798 |   | February 7, 2009 | 803 | The Pepys Show | Write a humorous diary or journal entry for someone, famous or not, for any point in history. | Jeff Brechlin | HIS
| 799 |   | February 14, 2009 | 804 | Our Type o' Joke | Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com between Feb. 14 and 23, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead) or a brief first sentence of an article that would run under it. | Jay Shuck | HEA
| 800 |   | February 21, 2009 | 805 | Brand Eccchs | Give us an original name in any of the above categories (not an actual badly named product). | Cy Gardner | BUS
| 801 |   | February 28, 2009 | 806 | DQ Very Much | Give us a phrase or sentence that would nip a potential relationship in the bud (or elsewhere). | Greg Dobbins | Ed Gordon Peter Metrinko
| 802 |   | YEAR 17 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 7, 2009 | 807 | Pretty Graphic Expressions | Express some insight as an equation or other mathematical expression. | Phyllis Reinhard | SCI
| 803 |   | March 14, 2009 | 808 | Take Us At Our Words | Create a humorous poem or other writing using only the words contained in this week's Style Invitational column or results. | Russell Beland | POE WOR STY
| 804 |   | March 21, 2009 | 809 | Unkindest Cutlines | Supply cutlines, or captions, for any of these newspaper photos. | Elizabeth Molye | CAP
| 805 |   | March 28, 2009 | 810 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Breed any two of the more than 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal. | Jonathan Paul | HOR
| 806 |   | April 4, 2009 | 811 | Rock-Bottom Lines | Tell us a sign that the economy couldn't get worse. | John Russell Tuohy | BUS CUL
| 807 |   | April 11, 2009 | 812 | Rx-Related Humor | Offer up some entirely false medical or psychological "fact." | Stephen Dudzik | SCI
| 808 |   | April 18, 2009 | 813 | Aw, Shocks | Give us a humorous example of the "shocking -- not." | Jeff Hazle |
| 809 |   | April 25, 2009 | 814 | There Will Be Bloodline | Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name their foal. | Lois Douthitt | Jennifer Rubio HOR
| 810 |   | May 2, 2009 | 815 | Wittecisms | Create an original word containing -- in any order -- at least a W, and I, two T's and an E. | Tom Witte | LET WOR
| 811 |   | May 9, 2009 | 816 | Googillions | Come up with an original phrase that generates at least 1 million listings on a Google search. | Jeff Brechlin | GOO
| 812 |   | May 16, 2009 | 817 | Flopflip | Reverse the first half and second half of a word or name and define the result. | Erik Wennstrom | WOR
| 813 |   | May 23, 2009 | 818 | Name the Day | Cite an actual holiday or one of those silly commemorative days, weeks or months for which you can find previous evidence, and supply a snarky description or slogan. | Don Kirkpatrick | CUL
| 814 |   | May 30, 2009 | 819 | Art Re-View | These objects are not what they seem to be, at first glance. They are something else entirely. What are they? | Brendan Beary | CAR
| 815 |   | June 6, 2009 | 820 | Be Mister Language Person | Supply a Mister Language Person-type question and answer. | Kevin Dopart | LAN QUE
| 816 |   | June 13, 2009 | 821 | Spit the Difference | How are any of the items on the list above alike or different? | Dan Ramish | DIF
| 817 |   | June 20, 2009 | 822 | For Real Folks | Suggest some attractions for a Festival of Real American Folklife. | Wayne Rodgers | CUL
| 818 |   | June 27, 2009 | 823 | Wryku | Compose a humorous (or at least wry or clever) haiku. | Dave Zarrow | POE
| 819 |   | July 4, 2009 | 824 | Jestinations | Give us a slogan for any city or town. | Jay Shuck | SLO POL
| 820 |   | July 11, 2009 | 825 | Disinstrumentals | Write some words to music that has no words. | Chris Doyle | POE MUS
| 821 | E  | July 18, 2009 | 826 | The Inside Word | Take any word -- this may include the name of a person or place -- put a portion of it in quotation marks, and redefine the word. | Mike Ostapiej | WOR
| 822 | E  | July 25, 2009 | 827 | Caller Idiot | Name a real product or company and supply a stupid question or complaint for the consumer hotline person. | Jeff Hazle | BUS QUE
| 823 | E  | August 1, 2009 | 828 | Inhuman Puns | Make a pun on the name of a familiar group, organization or company, and describe it or provide a quote from it. | Craig Dykstra | BUS JOK WOR
| 824 |   | August 8, 2009 | 829 | Limerixicon 6 | Supply a humorous limerick prominently featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters di-. | Andrew Burnet | LIM WOR LET
| 825 | E  | August 15, 2009 | 830 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Aug. 14 through Aug. 24 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. | Beverley Sharp | HEA
| 826 |   | August 22, 2009 | 831 | A Big To-Do | Name a "bucket list" item for a well-known real or fictional character. | Rick Haynes | LIT
| 827 |   | August 29, 2009 | 832 | Clue Us In | You supply one or more clues for the words in a filled-in grid. | Jim Lubell | CRO
| 828 |   | September 5, 2009 | 833 | Our Greatest Hit | Start with a real word or multi-word term or name that begins with M, N, O, or P; add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word. | Pam Sweeney | WOR LET
| 829 |   | September 12, 2009 | 834 | Fractured Compounds | Combine two full words within any single article appearing in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com into a hyphenated compound word, and define or otherwise describe the result. | Sylvia Betts | HYP WOR
| 830 |   | September 19, 2009 | 835 | Tour de Fours VI | Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order -- the letters T, H, R, and E. | Tom Witte | LET
| 831 |   | September 26, 2009 | 836 | Other People's Business | Describe what might happen if any of the above institutions (a) were run by an institution of your choice or (b) ran an institution of your choice. | Bruce Alter | POL BUS REL
| 832 |   | October 3, 2009 | 837 | Strip Search | Combine two comic strips that appear in The Washington Post or at washingtonpost.com/comics and describe the results. | Craig Dykstra | WAS COM
| 833 |   | October 10, 2009 | 838 | Picture This | Provide a caption for any of these pictures. | Andrew Hoenig | CAP
| 834 |   | October 17, 2009 | 839 | Overlap Dance | Overlap two words that share two or more consecutive letters -- anywhere in the word, not just at the beginning or end -- into a single longer word, and define it. AND your portmanteau word must begin with a letter from A through D. | Patricia Casey | LET WOR
| 835 |   | October 24, 2009 | 840 | Frittering away the neurons | Give us some more colorfully useful phrases; they don't have to be in the X'ing-the-Y form. | Elwood Fitzner |
| 836 |   | October 31, 2009 | 841 | Food for naught | Alter the name of a food or dish slightly and describe the result. | Dave Zarrow |
| 837 |   | November 7, 2009 | 842 | Ask backwards | Here are your 12 possible answers. Tell us your joke in the form of a question, please. | Judy Blanchard | JOK JEO
| 838 |   | November 14, 2009 | 843 | Prefrains | Provide a sentence or two of lead-in to the first line of a well-known book, poem, or song. | Stephen Dudzik | LIT MUS POE
| 839 |   | November 21, 2009 | 844 | Healthy choice | Enter any Style Invitational from Week 790 through Week 840, except for Week 793 and Week 798. | John Shea | PRE
| 840 |   | November 28, 2009 | 845 | Reologisms | Write a description for any of 50 genuine Loser-created neologisms. | Russell Beland | WOR
| 841 |   | December 5, 2009 | 846 | Season's gratings | Write a brief (50 words or fewer) holiday letter from a personage from past or present, or from fiction. | Peter Metrinko | HIS LIT
| 842 |   | December 12, 2009 | 847 | Questionable journalism | Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from Dec. 11 through Dec. 21 and come up with a question it might answer. | George Vary | WAS QUE
| 843 |   | December 19, 2009 | 848 | Up and addin' | Compose a humorous rhopalic sentence (or multiple sentences) in which each word is one letter longer than the previous word. | Chris Doyle | LET WOR
| 844 |   | December 26, 2009 | 849 | Homonymphomania | Create a new homonym (or homophone) for any existing word and define it. | Christopher Lamora | WOR
| 845 |   | January 2, 2010 | 850 | Dead letters | Write a humorous poem about someone who died in 2009. | Brendan Beary | POE EPI
| 846 |   | January 9, 2010 | 851 | Going to the shrink | Downsize the title of a book, movie or play to make it smaller or less momentous and describe it. | Adam Beland | Russell Beland LIT MOV
| 847 | html  | January 16, 2010 | 852 | Small, Let's get | Write a rhopalic sentence (or fanciful newspaper headline) in which each successive word is one letter shorter. | Jeffrey Contompasis | LET WOR
| 848 | html  | January 23, 2010 | 853 | It's easy as DEF | Create a brand-new word of phrase that contains a block of three successive letters in the alphabet; the series must go forward in the alphabet, not backward. | John Glenn | LET WOR
| 849 | html  | January 30, 2010 | 854 | What's not to liken? | Produce one or more similes in any of the following categories. | Russ Taylor |
| 850 | html  | February 6, 2010 | 855 | The news could be verse | Sum up an article (or even an ad!) in any Washington Post print or online edition from Feb. 6 through Feb. 15 in verse. | David Smith | POE WAS
| 851 | html  | February 13, 2010 | 856 | Titled Puerility | Here are some untitled book covers. For any of them, tell us a title and synopsis of a book that will never by published. | Jeffrey Contompasis | ART LIT
| 852 | html  | February 20, 2010 | 857 | All FED Up | Create a brand-new word of phrase that contains a block of three successive letters in the alphabet -- but the series must go backward through the alphabet. | Tom Witte | LET
| 853 | html  | February 27, 2010 | 858 | Same OED | Make up a false definition for any of the words listed below. | Michael Gips | WOR
| 854 | html  | March 6, 2010 | 859 | Can't goods | Cast a joke in one of the forms listed above. | Beverley Sharp | JOK
| 855 | html  | YEAR 18 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 13, 2010 | 860 | Ten, Anyone? | Humorously define or describe something or someone in exactly 10 words. | Phil Frankenfeld | WOR
| 856 | html  | March 20, 2010 | 861 | It's incumbent upon us | Combine the names of two or more freshman members of Congressman to create "joint legislation." This week's pool of legislators includes only those who were elected to their seats before 1994, the first year we ran the freshman contest. | Jonathan Paul | LEG
| 857 | html  | March 27, 2010 | 862 | Be cheerful | Send us a cheer or fight song for any pro sports team or any national team. | | POE MUS ATH
| 858 | html  | April 3, 2010 | 863 | It's Post time | Breed any two of 100 of the almost 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races, and name the foal. | Pam Sweeney | HOR
| 859 | html  | April 10, 2010 | 864 | Oonerspisms | Spoonerize a single word or a name by transposing different part of the word (more than two adjacent letters), and define the resultant new term. | Ann Martin | WOR
| 860 | html  | April 17, 2010 | 865 | No Googlenopes left | Come up with a humorous Googlenope. | Mark Richardson | GOO
| 861 | html  | April 24, 2010 | 866 | Natalie Portmanteau | Begin with a real name; append to it a word, name or expression so that they overlap; and finally define (humorously, of course) the resulting phrase. | Malcolm Fleschner | WOR
| 862 | html  | May 1, 2010 | 867 | Back in the saddle | Breed any two of the foals in today's results -- OR one foal with one of the actual horses used in today's entries, and name the grandfoal. | Barry Koch | HOR
| 863 | html  | May 8, 2010 | 868 | Count the ways | Give us some musings of a technical wonk. | Jeffrey Contompasis | SCI
| 864 | html  | May 15, 2010 | 869 | Clue us in | Send us funny, clever clues for any of the words already in this grid. | Dana Austin | CRO
| 865 | html  | May 22, 2010 | 870 | Let's play Nopardy | Describe any of the above phrases in the form of a question. | Russell Beland | QUE
| 866 | html  | May 29, 2010 | 871 | Remarquees | Change a movie title by one letter (or number, if the title includes a number) and describe the new film. | Gary Crockett | LET MOV
| 867 | html  | June 5, 2010 | 872 | Har Monikers | Combine the first parts of each word in a famous person's or character's name -- in order -- and define it or use it in a sentence that somehow refers to its source. | Cliff Kellogg | WOR
| 868 | html  | June 12, 2010 | 873 | Back to Square 1A | Replace the shaded letters in this grid with your own letters to come up with a different word or phrase -- either an existing word or one you make up -- and define it humorously. | Cathy Lamaze | CRO
| 869 | html  | June 19, 2010 | 874 | Stat Us | Write a funny Facebook status line. | Dudley Thompson | CUL
| 870 | html  | June 26, 2010 | 875 | Fail Us | Give us a funny Learn From My Fail-type lesson, 30 words or fewer, true or not, in your own words or attributed to a famous personage. | Drew Bennett | CUL
| 871 | html  | July 3, 2010 | 876 | Oilies but goodies | Write lyrics somehow related to the oil spill, set to an existing tune. | Mae Scanlan | POE MUS
| 872 | html  | July 10, 2010 | 877 | Quipped from the headlines | Write a rhyming couplet about some matter in the news. | Brendan Beary | POE CUL
| 873 | html  | July 17, 2010 | 878 | Safety in blunders | Tell us a way to make the nation more secure. | Jon Graft | SCI POL
| 874 | html  | July 24, 2010 | 879 | Say Venn | Express some sentiment in the form of a Venn diagram. | Russell Beland |
| 875 | html  | July 31, 2010 | 880 | Our greatest hit | Start with a real word or multi-word term or name that begins with Q, R or S; add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter with another, or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word. | Lennie Magida | WOR LET
| 876 | html  | August 7, 2010 | 881 | What's in a name? | Take the name of a person or institution. Find within it a hidden message. | Russell Beland | LET BUS POL
| 877 | html  | August 14, 2010 | 882 | Limerixicon VII | Supply a humorous limerick prominently featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters dr-. | Carole Lyons | LIM LET
| 878 | html  | August 21, 2010 | 883 | Same difference | Choose any two items from the list above and exp | Craig Dykstra | DIF
| 879 | html  | August 28, 2010 | | Not this week, honey | No new contest this week -- it's the first break that the Empress has given the Obsessive Losers since February 2008. | |
| 880 | HTML E  | September 4, 2010 | 884 | Rekindling the spork | Combine two devices or other products to make a new one. | Scott Weinstein | BUS
| 881 | html  | September 11, 2010 | 885 | Mess with our heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 10 through Sept. 20 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head." | Elden Carnahan | HEA
| 882 | html  | September 18, 2010 | 886 | Look both ways | Give us a new term that's a palindrome and define it. | Tom Flaherty | WOR
| 883 | html  | September 25, 2010 | 887 | Plus-Fours | Write a limerick whose third or fourth line is one of those listed above. | Stephen Gold | LIM
| 880, 882 | html  | October 2, 2010 | 888 | It's the eponymy, stupid | Coin a word or expression based on the name of a well-known person, define it, and perhaps use it in a sentence | Jeffrey Contompasis | WOR
| 884 | html  | October 9, 2010 | 889 | Tour de Fours VII | Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order -- the letters P, O, L and E. | Chris Doyle | LET WOR
| 885 | html  | October 16, 2010 | 890 | Double-teaming | Combine the names of any two pro sports teams -- even from different sports -- and describe the result. | Keith Maynard | ATH
| 886 | html  | October 23, 2010 | 891 | Mirror, Mirror | Write a word-palindrome sentence, in which the first and last words are the same; the second and next-to-last, etc. | Peter Jenkins | WOR
| 887 | html  | October 30, 2010 | 892 | Get a move on | Change the location of something for humorous effect. Provide an explanation if you wish. | Drew Bennett |
| 888 | html  | November 6, 2010 | 893 | Give us a hint | Write a humorously witty story in 25 words or fewer. | Jeffrey Contompasis | WOR
| 889 | html  | November 13, 2010 | 894 | Look Back in Inker | Enter any Style Invitational from Week 841 through Week 890 (except for Week 844). | Craig Dykstra | PRE
| 890 | html  | November 20, 2010 | 895 | Picture this | Supply a caption for any of these cartoons. | Douglas Frank | CAR
| 891 | html  | November 27, 2010 | 896 | Other people's business | Describe what might happen if any of the above institutions (a) were run by an institution of your choice or (b) ran an institution of your choice. | Larry Yungk | BUS REL POL
| 892 | html  | December 4, 2010 | 897 | Catch their drift | Take any sentence from an article of ad in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com from Dec. 3 to Dec. 13 and translate it into "plain English." | Danny Bravman | WAS LAN
| 893 | html  | December 11, 2010 | 898 | Pre-current events | Predict some humorous news event that would happen in 2011. | Arthur Adams | CUL
| 894 | html  | December 18, 2010 | 899 | Clue us in | Send us funny, clever clues for any of the words already in this grid. | Kevin Dopart | CRO
| 895 | html  | December 25, 2010 | 900 | Dear us! | Submit a "Dear Blank" letter to us instead. | Chris Doyle |
| 896 | html  | January 1, 2011 | 901 | Dead Letters | Write a humorous poem about someone who died in 2010. | Christopher Lamora | POE EPI
| 897 | html  | January 8, 2011 | 902 | What's the good news? | Take any sentence, or substantive part of a sentence, or a headline from an article or ad in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com from Jan. 7 to Jan. 18 and make it sound upbeat (or not so bad). | Dixon Wragg | WAS
| 898 | html  | January 15, 2011 | 903 | Bill us now | Combine the names of two or more members of Congress as co-sponsors of a bill. | Jeff Brechlin | LEG
| 899 | html  | January 23, 2011 | 904 | We move on back | Move the first letter in a word or name to the end of that word and define the resulting word. | Marian Carlsson | Dave Garratt LET WOR
| 900 | html  | January 30, 2011 | 905 | Anticdotes | Give us an untrue anecdote responding to one of these past Editor's Query topics. | Gary Crockett | WAS
| 901 | html  | February 6, 2011 | 906 | Your mug here | Give us a new design for the Loser Mug. | Edmund Conti | Michael Gips Howard Walderman STY
| 902 | html E  | February 13, 2011 | 907 | Naming rite | Come up with a creative, somehow fitting sponsor for some public facility or part of one. | Tom Panther |
| 903 | html  | February 20, 2011 | | Give it a rest | No new contest this week. | |
| 904 | HTML E  | February 27, 2011 | 908 | Recast away | Fire an actor or actress from a movie or TV show, past or present, and offer a replacement for the role. | Gary Crockett | MOV TEL
| 904 | html  | March 6, 2011 | 909 | Reprizing | Suggest humorous uses for one or more of the items above, alone or in combination. | Kevin Dopart | CAR
| 905 | html E  | YEAR 19 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 13, 2011 | 910 | Your ad here | Slightly alter an advertising slogan so that someone else could use it. | Rachel Braun | SLO BUS
| 906 | html  | March 20, 2011 | 911 | Help! | Create a short humorous dialogue -- or a monologue featuring one party -- of a phone call to 911, or a call for help to someone else. | Russell Beland |
| 907 | html  | March 27, 2011 | 912 | Pair-a-phrase | Lift a word that appears inside a longer word; pair it with the original word to create a phrase; and define it. | Michael Reinemer | WOR
| 908 | html  | April 3, 2011 | 913 | Bring up the rear | Move the last letter of an existing word or name to the front of the word, and define the new term. | Kyle Bonney | LET
| 909 | html  | April 10, 2011 | 914 | Foaling around | Breed any two of 100 of the almost 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races, and name the foal. | Jonathan Paul | HOR
| 910 | html  | April 17, 2011 | 915 | Picture this | Write a caption for any of the cartoons pictured here. | Jack Hingel | CAR
| 911 | html  | April 24, 2011 | 916 | Bank shots | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from April 22 through May and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. | John Shea | HEA
| 912 | html  | May 1, 2011 | 917 | Wryku | Write a haiku--a sentiment that can be broken into three lines with exactly five syllables in the first lien, seven in the second, five in the third--on any subject that's been in the news in the last couple of weeks. | Danny Bravman | POE CUL
| 913 | html  | May 8, 2011 | 918 | Colt Following | Breed any two "foals" in today's results, or one foal with one of the real horse names used in today's entries--and name the "grandfoal." The name may not exceed 18 characters, including spaces, and your entry shouldn't remotely duplicate any of today's results. | Pam Sweeney | HOR
| 914 | html  | May 15, 2011 | 919 | Good Luck With 13 | Alter a 13-letter word, phrase or name by one letter (add a letter, drop a letter, switch two letters somewhere in the word, or substitute one letter for another) and describe the result. | David Ballard | LET
| 915 | html  | May 22, 2011 | 920 | Sarchiasm | Write an original chaismus, in which the elements of a phrase are inverted for comedic effect. | John Shea | WOR
| 916 | html  | May 29, 2011 | 921 | Give Us Willies | Write an original Little Willie poem, perhaps reflecting our current era. This is a venerable four-line genre in which Master W. does some nasty thing and doesn't tend to learn to be a Good Boy by poem's end. | Kevin Dopart | POE
| 917 | html  | June 5, 2011 | 922 | A Banner Week | Write entirely new, humorous lyrics to the tune of “The Star-Spangled Banner”; they can be on any subject. | Gary Crockett | POE
| 918 | html  | June 12, 2011 | 923 | Chemical Wordfare | Create a new chemical element or other chemical term. | Christopher Lamora | SCI
| 919 | html  | June 19, 2011 | 924 | Doomed to repeat it | Create "Unreal Facts" about history. | Judy Blanchard | HIS
| 920 | html  | June 26, 2011 | 925 | A remeaning task | Redefine a word in the dictionary beginning with I through O. | Jamie Pazur | LET WOR
| 921 | html  | July 3, 2011 | 926 | Outrageous fortunes | Come up with a fortune cookie line that you'd like to see. | Ward Kay |
| 922 | html  | July 10, 2011 | 927 | Drive-By Shoutings | Write a very short four-line “poem” promoting a product or company, or offering advice to drivers; the poem must rhyme, in ABAB or ABCB rhyme scheme. A fifth, non-rhyming line may state the product name or a conclusion. | Beverley Sharp | POE BUS
| 923 | E  | July 17, 2011 | 928 | Play feature | Use the title of a movie as the answer to a riddle or other question. | Tom Witte | MOV QUE
| 924 | html  | July 24, 2011 | 929 | Now sit right back ... | Write a funny song introducing a TV show, past or present. | Nan Reiner | MUS TEL
| 925 | E  | July 31, 2011 | 930 | We WANT stupid complaints! | Complain comically unreasonably about some innocuous thing appearing in the print Post or on washingtonpost.com over the next week or the previous few days. | Peter Jenkins | WAS
| 926 | html  | August 7, 2011 | 931 | Limerixicon 8 | Supply a humorous limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters ea- through -el. | Chris Doyle | LIM
| 927 | html  | August 14, 2011 | 932 | We'll call them your-mama jokes | Tell us an original "your mama" joke. | Ben Aronin | CUL
| 928 | html  | August 21, 2011 | 933 | Stories that count (to 56) | Write a humorous story in exactly 56 words. | | WOR
| 929 | html  | August 28, 2011 | 934 | Same difference | Explain how any two items in the provided list are similar or different. | Rob Huffman | DIF
| 930 | html  | September 4, 2011 | 935 | The 400 blows | Write a humorous poem--choose your form--about the Virginia earthquake, Hurricane Irene or another well-known natural event. | Matt Monitto | POE CUL
| 931 | html  | September 11, 2011 | 936 | Hoho contendere | Slightly alter a well-known foreign-language term and define it. | Greg Deye | LAN WOR
| 932 | html  | September 18, 2011 | 937 | Staake it to him | Write a caption for any of the five pages or details pictured from some of Bob's more than 50 picture books. | Stephen Dudzik | CAR ART LIT
| 933 | html  | September 25, 2011 | 938 | Free and Lear | Write a limerick using the first two lines of any of Edward Lear's 115 limericks plus your own remaining three lines. | Hugh Thirlway | LIM
| 934 | html  | October 2, 2011 | 939 | MASH 2: The Retread | Combine two movie titles and describe the result. | Kathye Hamilton | MOV
| 935 | html  | October 9, 2011 | 940 | Our type o' headline | Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, or change spacing or punctuation, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Oct. 7 through Oct. 17, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead). | Kevin Dopart | HEA LET
| 936 | html  | October 16, 2011 | 941 | They don't say! | Give us a quote that a particular person, present or past, real or fictional, sooo wouldn't have said. | Larry Flynn | HIS
| 937 | html  | October 23, 2011 | 942 | Singular ideas | Give us an idea for a contest for which there's likely only one good entry. | Beverley Sharp | STY
| 938 | html  | October 30, 2011 | 943 | Ask backward XXIX | You are on "Jeopardy!" You supply the questions for as many of the provided answers as you like. | Danny Bravman | JEO
| 939 | html  | November 6, 2011 | 944 | Uh, yeah, it's just you | Give us one or more "Is it just me" questions. | Neal Starkman | QUE
| 940 | html  | November 13, 2011 | 945 | Laugh-baked ideas | Cleverly depict a person, event or phenomenon of the 21st century — real history as well as scenes from movies, books, videos, etc. — using edible materials, and send us a photo of your creation. | Alethea Dopart | Kevin Dopart PIX HIS MOV LIT
| 941 | html  | November 20, 2011 | 946 | Another round of Bierce | Write a clever definition of a word, name or multi-word term. | Melissa Balmain | WOR
| 942 | html  | November 27, 2011 | 947 | Tour de Fours VIII: Neologisms | Come up with a new word or two-word term that includes the letter block N-O-E-L, in any order but with no other letters between them, and define it. | Eric Fritz | LET WOR
| 943 | html  | December 4, 2011 | 948 | Look back in Inker | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 891 through 94 (except for Week 896, which was the same contest for the previous year). | David Prevar | PRE
| 944 | html  | December 11, 2011 | 949 | Putting the SAT in satire | Give us an analogy using "a is to b as x is to y." | Edmund Conti | WOR
| 946 | html  | December 18, 2011 | 950 | Of all the nerve! | Give us a humorous example of hypothetical chutzpah. | Nan Reiner |
| 945 | html  | December 25, 2011 | 951 | Say that again | Double a word, or use a word and its homophone, to make a phrase, and define it. | Kathy Fraeman | WOR
| 947 | html   | January 1, 2012 | 952 | Dead Letters | Write a humorous poem about someone who died in 2011. | Stephen Gold | POE EPI
| 948 | html  | January 8, 2012 | 953 | Clue us in | Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the crossword puzzle that's already run in The Post. | Seth Brown | CRO
| 949 | html  | January 15, 2012 | 954 | Bring on the 'fight' jokes | Tell us an original joke ending with “And then the fight started.” | David Genser | JOK
| 950 |   | January 22, 2012 | 955 | Twits' twist | Create a phrase by combining a word or phrase with an anagram of that word or phrase, and define or describe it. | Nancy Schwalb | ANA WOR
| 951 | html   | January 29, 2012 | 956 | Give us some bad ideas | Finish any of the provided "You know" phrases. | Noah Meyerson |
| 952 | html  | February 5, 2012 | 957 | Fearful Symmetry | Write a clever passage who successive words are on letter longer until the middle of the passage, and then become one letter shorter. | Bird Waring | LET WOR
| 953 | html   | February 12, 2012 | 958 | All's Weller | Write a "wellerism," a sentence that starts with a quote, often a short proverb, and goes on to include some sort of wordplay on something in the quote. | Jason Russo | WOR
| 954 | html   | February 19, 2012 | 959 | Out of network | Move a current or former TV program (or type of programming) to a different network and explain what would change. | Kurt Stahl | TEL
| 955 | html   | February 26, 2012 | 960 | Raving reviews | Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon. | Melissa Balmain | BUS CUL
| 956 | html   | March 4, 2012 | 961 | The end of our rhops | Write a funny passage or headline whose words all have the same number of letters. | Chris Doyle | LET HEA WOR
| 957 | html   | YEAR 20 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 11, 2012 | 962 | Questionable journalism | Take any sentence (or a mjaor part of it) that appears in the Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com anytime from now through March 19 and supply a question it could answer. | Cathy Lamaze | WAS QUE
| 958 | html  | March 18, 2012 | 963 | The overlap dance | Send us a Before & After "person" who name combines two people's names, real or fictional (okay, you can use animals' names, too), and describe the person in a funny way. | Gil Glass | WOR
| 959 | html   | March 25, 2012 | 964 | The Grossery Bag? | Suggest a design and/or slogan to go on the side of the ardently desired Style Invitational Loser Bag. | Melissa Balmain | SLO STY
| 960 | html   | April 1, 2012 | 965 | Foaling around | Breed any two of the horses in this year's Triple Crown races and name their foal. | Susan Thompson | HOR
| 961 | html E  | April 8, 2012 | 966 | Inkremental change | Start with any word or name, and create a series of words that change by one letter at a time, until you come up with a related word or name. | Dave Zarrow | WOR LET
| 962 | html   | April 15, 2012 | 967 | Overlap dance II | Create a phrase that overlaps two terms, each of two words or more, and describe the result. | Mae Scanlan | WOR
| 963 | html  | April 22, 2012 | 968 | Take us for grants | Come up with a proposal to the National Science Foundation or other research-funding organization for a study based on a stupid hypothesis. | Robert Schechter | SCI
| 964 | html  | April 29, 2012 | 969 | Colt following | Breed any two "foals" in today's results, and name the grandfoal. | Kathy El-Assal | HOR
| 965 | html   | FIRST INKIN' MEMORIAL AWARDED IN REPORT FROM WEEK 966 | May 6, 2012 | 970 | Couple it | Take a line from any well-known poem and pair it with your own second line to make a humorous couplet. | Brendan Beary | POE LIT
| 966 | html  | May 13, 2012 | 971 | Double booking | Come up with a double book with a humorous connection; the first title must be an actual book, while the other may be your own fictitious title or a second real book. | Jeff Brechlin | LIT
| 967 | html   | May 20, 2012 | 972 | Trends and neighbors | Choose any two items on the provided list and explain how they are alike or different. | Bird Waring | DIF
| 968 | html   | May 27, 2012 | 973 | A real triple crown | The horses in this week's list either produced no inking "foals" in Week 965, or ran in the Kentucky Derby but weren't on the initial list. "Breed" any two and name the foal. | Kevin Dopart | HOR
| 969 | html  | June 3, 2012 | 974 | Eat our dust! | Write a limerick humorously describing a book, play, movie, or TV show. | Chris Doyle | LIM LIT TEL MOV
| 970 | html   | June 10, 2012 | 975 | Gone mything | Debunk a "Sixth Myth" about one of more of the recent "5 Myths" topics provided. | Tom Witte | CUL
| 971 | html   | June 17, 2012 | 976 | Join now! | Combine the beginning and end of any two words or names in this week's Style Invitational or Style Conversational columns to make a new term, and define it. | Robert Schechter | HYP WOR
| 972 | html   | June 24, 2012 | 977 | Lost in Translation 2.0 | Translate a line of text from English into another language using Google Translate; then copy that result and translate it back into English. You may also make intermediate steps into one or more other languages. | Kevin Dopart | GOO LAN
| 973 | html   | July 1, 2012 | 978 | A reason to rhyme the news | Write a short verse about something that's been in the news recently. | Nan Reiner | POE CUL
| 974 | html   | July 8, 2012 | 979 | The madding crowd | Suggest funny, original ways to tick people off. | John Shea |
| 975 | html   | July 15, 2012 | 980 | Def jam | Supply a humorous definition for any of the provided Loser-penned neologisms. | Paul Burnham | WOR
| 976 | html   | July 22, 2012 | | You can't lose this week! | Because there’s not a new contest this week. Three and a half weeks from now, the Empress will be lounging on an exotic (okay, Delaware) beach, blissfully discoonnected from this newspaper's "content management system," Methode, better known within the newsroom as "that piece of [not 'blueberry pie'] Methode." | |
| 977 | HTML E  | July 29, 2012 | 981 | Feeling testy | Write a question that "ought to" be on a qualifying test for a particular job. | Barry Koch | BUS
| 978 | html  | August 5, 2012 | 982 | The parody line | Set your own, humorous words to the tune of a well-known song--except that you must preserve one of the original lines. | Nan Reiner | POE MUS
| 979 | html  | August 12, 2012 | 983 | Limerixicon IX | Supply a humorous limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters "eq-" through "ez-". | Brendan Beary | LIM LET
| 980 | html   | August 19, 2012 | 984 | Another brilliant contest | Write something whose words begin with consecutive letters of the alphabet. | Christopher Lamora | LET
| | html  | August 26, 2012 | 985 | What art art thou? | Tell us which Style Invitational contest any of the provided Bob Staake cartoons might be illustrating. | Beverley Sharp | CAR
| 981 | html   | September 2, 2012 | 986 | Hear here! | Give us a sentence or short dialogue that would be a lot funnier if a word in it were mistaken for a homophone of that word. | Mark Richardson | Beverley Sharp WOR
| 982 | html   | September 9, 2012 | 987 | Bank shots | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 6 through Sept. 17 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. | Melissa Balmain | HEA
| 983 | html  | September 16, 2012 | 988 | A faster break | Suggest ways to make sports and other leisure activities more time-efficient or exciting. | Martin Bancroft | ATH
| 984 | html   | September 23, 2012 | 989 | On the double | Come up with a double or multiple profession, and explain how each job complements the other(s). | Jeff Hazle | BUS
| 985 | html  | September 30, 2012 | 990 | Indecent relations | Pair two people, real or fictional, who have the same last name; say how they're alike or different, or something they might do (even in fantasy), as a pair. | Robert Schechter | DIF
| 986 | html  | October 7, 2012 | 991 | Tour de Fours IX | Create a new word or two-word term containg the letter block V, O, T, and E and define it. | Laurie Tompkins | LET WOR
| 987 | html   | October 14, 2012 | 992 | Mittsterpiece Theatre | Suppose public-TV shows, past or present, were turned out onto the open market to make a living on commercial TV. Tell us what would happen. | Neal Starkman | BUS TEL
| 988 | html   | October 21, 2012 | 993 | Versus, verses | Write a short "rap battle" between any two characters, real or fictional. | Amanda Yanovitch | POE
| 989 | html  | October 28, 2012 | 994 | Stick it to us | Suggest a slogan for one of our two new honorable-mention Loser Magnets for 2012-2013. | Bruce Carlson | SLO STY
| 990 | html  | November 4, 2012 | 995 | Ask backwards | We give you the "answers" and you supply jokes in the form of a question. | Mark Raffman | JEO
| 991 | html   | November 11, 2012 | 996 | A Life-Time opportunity | Combine two magazines or journals and describe the result, supply a marketing pitch, or suggest a story or two that it might publish. | Lawrence McGuire | CUL
| 992 | html  | November 18, 2012 | 997 | Unworthy causes | Name a dubious charity and describe its mission. | Mark Raffman |
| 993 | html   | November 25, 2012 | 998 | Set the law on us | Suggest an odd law for a particular place in the world. | Beverley Sharp | POL
| 994 | html   | December 2, 2012 | 999 | Drectrospective | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 946 through Week 995, except for Week 948. | Lawrence McGuire | PRE
| 995 | html  | December 9, 2012 | 1000 | We now have 4 digits; you now have 7 letters | Choose any word, name or two-word term beginning anywhere from T through Z; then add one letter, drop one letter, substitute one letter for another, or transpose two adjacent letters, and define the result. | Jeffrey Contompasis | LET WOR
| 996 | html   | December 16, 2012 | 1001 | Make us ROFL | Give us a funny, original acronym. | Dayna Fellowes | LET WOR
| 997 | html  | December 23, 2012 | 1002 | Wring out the OED | Make up a false definition from any other the listed OED words. | Frank Osen | WOR
| 998 | html  | December 30, 2012 | 1003 | Just do it | Use a well-known advertising slogan for a different company, organization or product to humorous effect. | Brendan Beary | SLO BUS POL
| 999 | html E  | January 6, 2013 | 1004 | Dead letters | Write a humorous poem about anyone who died in 2012. | Nan Reiner | Robert Schechter POE EPI
| 1000 | html E  | January 13, 2013 | 1005 | Send us the bill | Name a piece of legislation "cosponsored" by two or moreo of the 98 new House and Senate members provided. | Rick Haynes | LEG
| 1001 | html E  | January 20, 2013 | 1006 | It's a ... a ... | Create a new superhero (or due) and describe the superpower, or not-very-superpower. | Michael Reinemer | CUL
| 1001 | html E  | January 27, 2013 | 1007 | Clue us in | Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and mult-word terms in the provided grid. | Barbara Turner | CRO WOR
| 1003 | html   | February 3, 2013 | | Primping for our big day | There's no new contest this week, because four weeks from now, the Empress will devote this entire space to a celebration of the Style Invitational's 20th anniversary. | |
| 1004 | HTML E  | February 10, 2013 | 1008 | Switched reels | Re-arrange all the words in the title of a movie, and describe the resulting work. | Roy Ashley | WOR MOV
| 1005 | html E  | February 17, 2013 | 1009 | What's in a name? | Write something about some person, real or fictional, using only the letters in the person's name. | Matt Monitto | LET
| 1006 | html E  | February 24, 2013 | 1010 | Picture this | Write a caption for any of the five provided cartoons. | John Glenn | CAR
| 1007 | html E  | March 3, 2013 | 1011 | Top these! | Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back. | Robert Schechter | PRE
| | html   | YEAR 21 BEGINS | PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | EVENTUAL WINNER | THEMES | REPORT | LINKS | March 10, 2013 | 1012 | The news at 5 | Write a limerick about a recent news event. | Kevin Dopart | LIM CUL
| 1008 | html   | March 17, 2013 | 1013 | Har monikers | Write a riddle that uses a pun of a person's name in the answer. | Natalie Beary | JOK WOR
| 1009 | html   | March 24, 2013 | 1014 | Join now | Combine the beginning and end, or the beginnings and ends, of any two words in single Washington Post story or ad published March 21 to April 1 into a new word or two-word phrase, and define the result. | Michael Gips | WAS WOR
| 1010 | E  | March 31, 2013 | 1015 | Faux re mi | Give us some humorously false trivia about music or musicians. | Paul Kondis | MUS
| 1011 | html E  | April 7, 2013 | 1016 | Foaling around | Breed any two of the horses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races and give the foal a name humorously reflecting the names of the parents. | Mark Eckenwiler | HOR
| 1012 | html E  | April 14, 2013 | 1017 | Vowel play | Write a "univocalic" newspaper headline -- one that uses only one vowel throughout. | Nan Reiner | LET HEA
| 1013 | E  | April 21, 2013 | 1018 | Reologisms | Write a clever, funny definition for any of the Loser-concocted neologisms from Week 1014 as well as from Week 1000 that deserve better definitions than their creators offered at the time. | Rob Huffman | WOR
| 1014 | html E  | April 28, 2013 | 1019 | What a turnoff | Tell us some creative things that children and families could do during Screen-Free Week. | Art Grinath | CUL
| 1015 | E  | May 5, 2013 | 1020 | Colt following | Breed any two of this week's winning foals and name the grandfoal. | Laurie Brink | HOR
| 1016 | html E  | May 12, 2013 | 1021 | 'Gram theft | Come up with a term by scrambling any of the letters sets in the provided list, and define it. | Frank Osen | LET
| 1017 | E  | May 19, 2013 | 1022 | What's the diff? | Explain how any two of the provided items are alike or different. | Michael Gips | DIF
| 1018 | E  | May 26, 2013 | 1023 | Hai there, Martians! | Write one or more humorous haiku that will greet the Martians or share a little nugget of what life is like on Earth. | Rob Huffman | POE
| 1019 | E  | June 2, 2013 | 1024 | Gorey thoughts | Send us some edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. The pairs are AB, CD, EF, GH, IJ, KL, MN, OP, QR, ST, UV, WX, and YZ. | Jennifer Gittins-Harfst | LET POE
| 1020 | HTML E  | June 9, 2013 | 1025 | In so many words | Create an original backronym for a name or other term, especially one that's been in the news lately. | Jay Cummings | WOR CUL
| 1021 | HTML E  | June 16, 2013 | | (We) give us a break | The Empress os spending a week touring her dominions and so she's giving you a week off as well. | |
| 1022 | HTML E  | June 23, 2013 | 1026 | 'Might' makes ink | Give us a joke using any of the using any of the provided "you might be" templates. | Chuck Smith | JOK
| 1021 | HTML E  | June 30, 2013 | 1027 | Built for two | Give humorous related names for any pair of features in a given building, organization, etc. | Phil Frankenfeld | BUS POL
| 1023 | HTML E  | July 7, 2013 | 1028 | Joint Legiflation | Combine the names of two or more of the First Congress senators and/or representatives to create "joint legislation". | Doug Hamilton | LEG
| 1024 | HTML E  | July 14, 2013 | 1029 | Ditty Harry | Write a descriptive theme song for a well-known movie, set to a well-known tune. | Mark Raffman | MOV MUS POE
| 1025 | HTML E  | July 21, 2013 | 1030 | The cinquain feeling | Write a clever cinquain. The five-line form is straightforward: first line, two syllables; second line, four syllables; third line, six; fourth line, eight; fifth line, two. | Nan Reiner | POE
| 1026 | HTML E  | July 28, 2013 | 1031 | The 'Sty'le Invitational | Choose anyword, name, or short term; emphasize a key, suddenly pertinent part of it with quotation marks; then redefine the word. | Barbara Turner | WOR
| 1027, 1026 | HTML E  | August 4, 2013 | 1032 | Hid stuff | Explain the symbolism "obviously" evident in any well-known site, artwork, etc., in 75 words or fewer. | Jeff Shirley | ART
| 1028 | HTML E  | August 11, 2013 | 1033 | LimeriXicon | Supply a humorous limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "fa-". | Matt Monitto | LIM
| 1029 | HTML E  | August 18, 2013 | 1034 | What's to like? | Supply an original joke of the form "I like my [your choice] the way I like my [something else of your choice]: [some clever, funny parallel]." | Robert Falk | JOK
| 1030 | HTML E  | August 25, 2013 | 1035 | The Empy 500 | Explain what news Bob Staake is trying to tell in any of the provided drawings. | Michael Gips | CAR
| 1031 | HTML E  | September 1, 2013 | 1036 | Just for liffs | Use a real place name, from anywhere in the world, as a new term. | Joel Knanishu | WOR
| 1032 | HTML E  | September 8, 2013 | 1037 | Outrage us | Find something offensive about an inoffensive name of a product, organization, place, etc. | Robert Falk | BUS
| 1033 | HTML E  | September 15, 2013 | 1038 | It's like this, see | Answer a simple question with a ridiculously argued answer citing various connections and parallels. | Chris Doyle |
| 1034 | HTML E  | September 22, 2013 | 1039 | Shookespeare | Combine any of the words in Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy, in any order, to create a humorous sentence or longer passage. | Craig Dykstra | WOR POE
| 1035 | HTML E  | September 29, 2013 | 1040 | IRS my case | Schedule A: Suggest a novel way for the government to determine taxes. | Schedule B: Suggest a deduction that you'd like to take, or that some real or fictional person or past or present might like to tak. Schedule C: Suggest a cause you'd rather check off $3 for. Edmund Conti | POL
| 1036 | HTML E  | October 6, 2013 | 1041 | What have you got to lose? | Answer a question, real or rhetorical, that appears in a song. | | MUS QUE
| 1037 | HTML E  | October 13, 2013 | 1042 | Tour de Fours X: Go SANE | Create a new word or two-word term containing the letter block S-A-N-E -- in any order, but consecutively, and define it. | | LET
| 1038 | HTML E  | October 20, 2013 | 1043 | Rechanneling celebrity | Describe a TV reality show featuring a celebrity pursuing some unlikely endeavor. | | TEL
| 1039 | HTML E  | October 27, 2013 | 1044 | Play it safe | Come up with a comically safety-conscious rule for the workplace of elsewhere. | | CUL
| 1040 | HTML E  | November 3, 2013 | 1045 | | | |
| |   | November 10, 2013 | 1046 | | | |
| |   | November 17, 2013 | 1047 | | | |
| |   | November 24, 2013 | 1048 | | | |
| |   | December 1, 2013 | 1049 | | | |
| |   | December 8, 2013 | 1050 | | | |
| |   | December 15, 2013 | 1051 | | | |
| |   | December 22, 2013 | 1052 | | | |
| |   | December 29, 2013 | 1053 | | | |
| |   | January 5, 2014 | 1054 | | | |
| |   | January 12, 2014 | 1055 | | | |
| |   | January 19, 2014 | 1056 | | | |
| |   | January 26, 2014 | 1057 | | | |
| |   | February 2, 2014 | 1058 | | | |
| |   | February 9, 2014 | 1059 | | | |
| |   | February 16, 2014 | 1060 | | | |
| |   | February 23, 2014 | 1061 | | | |
| |   | March 2, 2014 | 1062 | | | |
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