Copyright The Washington Post Company Jun 12,
1994
Femini - It is a bad time of the month for you.
Testes - You have an unlimited amount of gall.
Vertigo - Cut down on your partying.
This week's contest was suggested by Elden Carnahan of Laurel, who wins
a fabulous prank hypodermic syringe. Elden suggests coming up with new
astrological signs for the 1990s, together with one day's horoscope.
First-prize winner gets a framed painting of the "Abbey Road" album cover,
featuring the likenesses of Elvis, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey
Bogart, purchased from the official Style Invitational art curators, who
operate out of the back of a truck on Rockville Pike. Runners-up, as
always, get the coveted Style Invitational losers' T-shirts. Honorable
mentions get the mildly sought-after Style Invitational bumper stickers.
Winners will be selected on the basis of humor and originality. Mail your
entries to the Style Invitational, Week 68,
The Washington
Post, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071, fax them to
202-334-4312, or submit them via Internet at this address:
losers@access.digex.net. Entries must be received on or before Monday,
June 20. Please include your address and phone number. Winners will be
announced in three weeks. Anurgent message from the Faerie of the Fine
Print & the Ear No One Reads: Many alert but confused readers wrote in
to observe that something peculiar appears to have happened to Week 64,
inasmuch as Week 63 was followed by Week 65, even though we later referred
back to Week 64, as though it had existed, and once incorrectly reported
the results of "Images/circlei3.gif" border=0>Washington
Post, etc. No purchase necessary. Employees of The Washington
Post and their immediate families are not eligible for prizes. The
winner of the contest to come up with snapshots of your pets wearing
costumes was Sue Hanson of Montgomery Village, who we are fairly certain
cheated by sending in a picture from a post card. But we are choosing to
ignore this inasmuch as it is great, and all the other ones bit the
braunschweiger. Sue wins a papier-mache duck and a picture of an elephant
pooping. Thank you.
Report from Week 65,
or possibly 64, in which you were asked to come up with personal
classified ads that do not actually lie but creatively stretch the truth a
bit.
Third Runner-Up: From a Devil worshiper - "SWF, willing to make
sacrifices . . ." (Cindi Rae Caron, Lenoir, N.C.)
Second Runner-Up: From someone with multiple personalities - "I am a
real people person . . ." (Tom Meyer, Alexandria)
First Runner-Up: From John Bobbitt - "SWM, recently divorced AND
recently separated . . ." (Sue Lin Chong, Washington)
And the winner of the hideous cement lawn sculpture:
From a morbidly obese person: "SWM with an enormous heart . . ." (Nick
Dierman, Potomac)
Honorable Mentions:
From Chuck Smith of Woodbridge: "MWM ISO a life. . ." (Linda Bakley,
Falls Church)
From a person with split personalities: "Looking for woman interested
in multiple organisms . . ." (Dawn-Michele Gould, Germantown)
From a physician - {scrawls ending in $1,000,079.98} (Paul A. Alter,
Hyattsville)
From Shane Stant: "Olympic trials participant. Enjoys clubs, swinging
and bars . . ." (Larry Gordon, Potomac)
From Jack Kevorkian: "Let me help you see the light . . ." (Steven
Dudzik, Silver Spring)
From avant garde director David Lynch: "I want someone to sit on my
coffee table and call out the names of the presidents. That would really
be great. And a dog. Shouldn't a dog be in here? But he has to be holding
a human hand. That would be neat." (J. Calvin Smith, Laurel)
From an asylum inmate: "Are you looking for a committed individual? . .
." (Cindi Rae Caron, Lenoir, N.C.)
From John Bobbitt: "Unattached male seeking companionship . . ." (Peggy
M. Hyde, Charlottesville)
From Stuttering John Melendez:
"SSSSSSWWWWWMMMMMM, ssseeeks . |
. ." (Christie Kennedy, Syosset, NY.)
From "desperate": "SMWBPJMF seeks therapist specializing in the
treatment of persons suffering from indentity crisis." (Harris Shettel,
Rockville)
From Vladimir Zhirinovsky: "Object: adventure,
travel, |
getting a little crazy now and then . . ." (Tom Meyer, Alexandria)
From Jack Kevorkian: "Seeking someone patient, long-suffering, for long
drive in your garage . . ." (Chuck Smith, Woodbridge)
Next Week: The Son-of-Smith Law.
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