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PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | THEMES | LINKS TO THIS CONTEST | WINNER | LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later) |
April 18, 1993 | 7 | BEAT THE BANDS | Come up with a name for rock bands. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
May 2, 1993 | 9 | VANITY UNFAIR | Create vanity license plates for famous people. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
June 20, 1993 | 16 | I AM ADDICTED TO AN ASININE CONTEST… | Come up with sleazy new topics for the daytime talks. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
August 8, 1993 | 23 | HAPPY ENDINGS | Modernize an old quote or expression by altering its ending. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | CUL WOR | Text file | Contest image | ||
November 28, 1993 | 39 | WAY OUTSIDE THE LINES | Name a new crayon color for the 1990s, with a description. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
December 5, 1993 | 40 | NOT WRONG. JUST INCORRECT. | What's next on the political correctness agenda? | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | WOR CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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 American. Tell us the date, the name of the holiday and how it should be observed. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
June 12, 1994 | 68 | GIVE US A SIGN | Come up with new astrological signs for the 1990s, together with one day's horoscope. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
September 25, 1994 | 80 | NICK KNACKS | Come up with a great nickname for any contemporary celebrity. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
October 16, 1994 | 83 | BEDROOM FARCE | What questions were left out of the Great American Sex Survey? | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
November 27, 1994 | 89 | CHILD'S PLAY | Come up with bad ideas for new toys for the Christmas season. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
January 15, 1995 | 96 | STICK IT IN YOUR ERA | Come up with a catch phrase for the 1990s. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
April 9, 1995 | 108 | NEAR MISSES | Come up with the first drafts of great lines in history, entertainment or literature. | HIS CUL LIT | Text file | Contest image | ||
April 23, 1995 | 110 | DO NOT INHALE THIS PAGE | Come up with absurd warning labels that might be found on common products. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
June 11, 1995 | 117 | GIVE 'EM HELOISE | Come up with a tribute to Heloise, that queen of inanely creative recycling. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
November 5, 1995 | 138 | LIST BUT NOT LEAST | Come up with Top-10-style lists for any of the above four subjects. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
December 24, 1995 | 145 | LOOIE, LOOIE | Come up with paired, themed ladies' room and men's room signs for various types of public places. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | HEA WAS CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
March 24, 1996 | 158 | SO SUE US | Come up with frivolous lawsuits. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
September 22, 1996 | 184 | ED ANGUISH | Create an argument on some social issue, in 75 words or fewer, taking an extreme liberal view. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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 trying to get along in the United States. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
December 8, 1996 | 195 | THE MARTHIAN CHRONICLES | Come up with items for Martha Stewart's December-January calendar of projects. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
December 29, 1996 | 198 | YOU MUST BE MAD II | Come up with proposals designed to infuriate special interest groups. | POL CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
February 9, 1997 | 204 | DOUBLE EXPRESSO | Take any well-known colorful expression, and modernize it. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
July 27, 1997 | 228 | MAKE MY DAY | Supply advice to today's spoiled kids about how bad things were when we were growing up. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | POL CUL REL | Text file | Contest image | ||
December 21, 1997 | 249 | BAD NEWS, GOOD NEWS | Supply a silver lining for any scourge or social ill facing America or the world. | CUL POL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | CUL POL | Text file | Contest image | ||
October 4, 1998 | 290 | THE WORLD THEORIES | Codify some of life's more populist theories. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | WAS CUL POL REL | Text file | Contest image | ||
January 3, 1999 | 303 | BOOM TIMES | Come up with old and new concerns for the baby boom generation. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
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. | WAS STY CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
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. | POE CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
February 14, 1999 | 309 | A STINKING PILE OF THESES | Write an all-purpose first line or paragraph for any doctoral dissertation, designed to impress the heck out of academics. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | CUL POL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
November 5, 2000 | 374 (XLI) | Bill Us Later | Take a well-known expression and update it for the new millennium. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
December 10, 2000 | 379 (XLVI) | Rather Unusual | Come up with lines that could be uttered by Dan Rather, with his unbearably folksy excesses. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
December 31, 2000 | 382 (XLIX) | Pickup Schticks | Write inept pickup lines, by either sex, to either sex. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | LIT CUL WOR | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
June 17, 2001 | 406 (LXXIII) | Bum Steerage | Offer some spectacularly bad advice to any of the provided people. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
August 5, 2001 | 413 (LXXX) | Bland Ambition | Come up with one or more items from an underachiever's list of midlife resolutions. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | TEL CUL BUS | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
July 28, 2002 | 464 (CXXXI) | Cursive Writing | Come up with a new curse for this millennium. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
September 1, 2002 | 469 (CXXXVI) | Playing Check-In | Suggest appropriate hotel check-in names for any celebrities, past or present, living or dead. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
November 3, 2002 | 478 (CXLV) | Do You Mindset? | Anticipate items for the Mindset List for the freshman class of the year 2020. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
February 2, 2003 | 491 (CLVIII) | Hirschfeld Follies | Try to figure out which celebrities Bob Staake is trying to draw in imitation of Al Hirschfeld. | CUL | Text file | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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 ------." | CUL | Text file | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | ||
September 14, 2003 | 523 | Hard to Overstate | Propose ways to make modern life just a little bit harder than it needs to be. | CUL | Text file | ||
October 12, 2003 | 527 | Rite of First Defusal | Come up with witty or bizarre things to say to defuse the tension in awkward moments. | CUL | Text file | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | ||
November 30, 2003 | 534 | The Feminine Touch | Propose how any male-dominated occupation or institution would change if it suddenly became female-dominated. | BUS CUL | Text file | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | ||
March 7, 2004 | 548 | Inklings | Tell us about certain people's childhood experiences and behaviors that hint at their destinies. | CUL | Text file | ||
December 5, 2004 | 587 | The B-List | Come up with an In-Out list for 2005, or other pairings. | CUL | Text file | ||
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. | ATH BUS CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
March 6, 2005 | 600 | Top of the Inking | Tell us some ways the District of Columbia will change now that we have the Nationals. | CUL ATH | Text file | ||
May 8, 2005 | 609 | A2D2 | Give us some funny "corrections" to brighten up Page A2. | CUL | Text file | ||
September 4, 2005 | 626 | Course Light | Come up with a comical college class, along with a description for the course catalog. | CUL | Text file | ||
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? | CUL | Text file | ||
April 16, 2006 | 658 | Not in the Cards | Send us ideas for cards that would likely be ruled "FBN" (Funny, But No) by Hallmark but F&YYY by the Empress. | LET CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
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. | POE CUL | Text file | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | ||
October 22, 2006 | 685 | Thank it Over | Tell us some things to be thankful for. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
March 11, 2007 | 704 | Another Game of Tag | Create vanity plates for well-known people, real or fictional. | CUL | Text file | ||
December 22, 2007 | 745 | Hurry Up and Slow Down! | Suggest particular ways that would slow life down, or ways that would speed it up. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
January 5, 2008 | 747 | Boeing Us Silly | Suggest some comical ways to improve air travel, either in general or for yourself. | CUL | Text file | Post e-version | ||
May 10, 2008 | 764 | Can You Up Chuck? | Come up with entirely new and funny Chuck Norris Facts. | CUL | Text file | ||
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. | LAN LIT CUL | Text file | ||
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. | WOR CUL | Text file | ||
September 20, 2008 | 783 | The Shill Game | Name a celebrity or fictional character to endorse a real product or company. | BUS CUL | Text file | ||
September 27, 2008 | 784 | Words to The Wiseacres | Give us some proverbs for 21st-century life. | CUL | Text file | ||
November 8, 2008 | 790 | If Only! | Explain how the world would be different had some event not occurred. | POL HIS CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
April 4, 2009 | 811 | Rock-Bottom Lines | Tell us a sign that the economy couldn't get worse. | BUS CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
June 20, 2009 | 822 | For Real Folks | Suggest some attractions for a Festival of Real American Folklife. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
June 19, 2010 | 874 | Stat Us | Write a funny Facebook status line. | CUL | Text file | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | ||
July 10, 2010 | 877 | Quipped from the headlines | Write a rhyming couplet about some matter in the news. | POE CUL | Text file | ||
December 11, 2010 | 898 | Pre-current events | Predict some humorous news event that would happen in 2011. | CUL | Text file | Post e-version | ||
May 1, 2011 | 917 | Wryku | Write a haiku--a sentiment that can be broken into three lines with exactly five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third--on any subject that's been in the news in the last couple of weeks. | POE CUL | Text file | ||
August 14, 2011 | 932 | We'll call them your-mama jokes | Tell us an original "your mama" joke. | CUL | Text file | Post e-version | ||
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. | POE CUL | Text file | ||
February 26, 2012 | 960 | Raving reviews | Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon. | BUS CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
June 10, 2012 | 975 | Gone mything | Debunk a "Sixth Myth" about one of more of the recent "5 Myths" topics provided. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | ||
July 1, 2012 | 978 | A reason to rhyme the news | Write a short verse about something that's been in the news recently. | POE CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
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. | CUL | Text file | Lawrence McGuire | Text file |
January 20, 2013 | 1006 | It's a ... a ... | Create a new superhero (or duo) and describe the superpower, or not-very-superpower. | CUL | Text file | Post e-version | ||
March 10, 2013 | 1012 | The news at 5 | Write a limerick about a recent news event. | LIM CUL POE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
April 28, 2013 | 1019 | What a turnoff | Tell us some creative things that children and families could do during Screen-Free Week. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
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. | WOR CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
October 27, 2013 | 1044 | Play it safe | Come up with a comically safety-conscious rule for the workplace or elsewhere. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
June 22, 2014 | 1077 | Time marches Swiftly | Give us a novel Tom Swifty, playing on either an adverb or a verb (e.g., "We care about the little people, the BP chairman gushed"). | WOR CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
August 3, 2014 | 1083 | Everybody get appy | Offer up an idea for either a humorously useful app or a humorously counterproductive one. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
August 17, 2014 | 1085 | Eww-venirs: Ideas for gift shops | Suggest a humorous--but NOT horribly tasteless--tchotchke, T-shirt, etc., from a real or imagined gift shop at a particular tourist site. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
August 31, 2014 | 1087 | The core ridiculum | Come up with a comical class (any type of school) and provide a course catalog description. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
October 5, 2014 | 1092 | Are we having funds yet? | Suggest a humorous fundraising "challenge" for any organization. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
November 16, 2014 | 1098 | Prime time for some Amazon reviews | Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon. (Conversational text) | BUS CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
December 14, 2014 | 1102 | Let's get Sirius | Suggest a new radio channel and describe it. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
January 11, 2015 | 1106 | Show your resolve | Suggest a New Year's resolution that someone might make 100 or more years in the future. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
April 12, 2015 | 1119 | We want hue so bad | Invent a name for a color and describe it. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
June 7, 2015 | 1127 | From the creators of … | Think up a spinoff of a real TV series, past or present, and furnish a description or bit of dialogue. (Conversational text) | CUL TEL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
June 14, 2015 | 1128 | Drone for a loop | Give us some novel uses for a CICADA micro-drone, assuming that anyone can get one, and that it can have a micro-camera, micro-grips, etc. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
July 5, 2015 | 1131 | One man's trash | Suggest a humorous way to reuse one or more of the items listed above -- or anything else advertised on RepurposedMaterialsinc.com. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
August 2, 2015 | 1135 | The meter's running | Suggest actions in daily life that should require a time limit -- maximum or minimum -- and come with an appropriate penalty for running over (or under). (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
August 30, 2015 | 1138 | Show us your touché | Offer an elegantly snide (and original) insult of anyone living or dead. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
November 15, 2015 | 1149 | Gestures of depreciation | Suggest ways to celebrate National Love Your Lawyer Day -- or a made-up "holiday" celebrating some other profession. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
November 29, 2015 | 1151 | To [a glass], snarkly | Write a short, snarky (but witty) note to one of the provided glassbowls. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
July 10, 2016 | 1183 | C'mon, be honest with us | Write something in roughly the form "If X were more honest, (then) Y." (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
November 27, 2016 | 1203 | You've got the powers | Tell us what you would do if you had one or more of the six magical powers provided. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
August 27, 2017 | 1242 | Generation Yux | Give us a "then/now" joke. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
September 10, 2017 | 1244 | Primed for product reviews | Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon. (Conversational text) | CUL BUS | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
September 17, 2017 | 1245 | Call us reprehensible … | Complain in a humorously missing-the-point way about something that has appeared in The Washington Post (in print or online) recently, or in another publication. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
October 8, 2017 | 1248 | C'mon, fess up! | Send us a brief "confession" -- there will be categories for true and just-kidding. | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
October 29, 2017 | 1251 | Thanking outside the box | Tell us something to be thankful for. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
December 31, 2017 | 1260 | What lies (are) ahead for 2018 | Jokingly predict some news event to happen in 2018. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
January 28, 2018 | 1264 | A cry for Yelp: 'Review' any place | Write a humorous review, positive or negative, of anyplace (real of fictional) one might visit. (Conversational text) | CUL BUS | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
March 25, 2018 | 1272 | The hex files: creative curses | Come up with a creative curse. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | Danielle Nowlin | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version |
September 2, 2018 | 1295 | Really, now? A matter of degree. | Tell us an indication to some problem, followed by an even more dire sign. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
November 4, 2018 | 1304 | All the muse that's fit to print | Present a "what if" scenario and explain its effect. | HIS CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
December 23, 2018 | 1311 | Nextra! Nextra! The year in preview | Name some humorous event to happen in 2019. | CUL POL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
March 3, 2019 | 1321 | Pumping Prime: Amazon reviews | Send us a humorous "review" (like the provided samples from our earlier contests) for any of the provided items. | BUS CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | David Hammond | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version |
July 14, 2019 | 1340 | Not-ables -- slightly alter a famous name | Slightly alter the name (make sure the original is obvious) of a famous personage -- past or present, real or fictional -- and describe the resulting nonpersonage, or offer a quote from that person, or both. | LET CUL HIS | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
December 8, 2019 | 1361 | 2020 vision -- the year in preview | Name some humorous news event to happen in 2020. (Conversational text) | CUL POL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
January 19, 2020 | 1367 | Pick me up at work, okay? | Give a pickup line from someone in a particular profession, or from a particular person or fictional character. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
March 1, 2020 | 1373 | Prime time for some Amazon reviews | Send us a humorous "review" for any of the provided Amazon-listed items. (Conversational text) | BUS CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | David Prevar | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version |
September 27, 2020 | 1403 | Who was that masked man? | Current a short listing for a current or past TV show that has a coronavirus story line, or one reflecting some other issue in the news right now. (Conversational text) | CUL TEL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
December 13, 2020 | 1414 | Divining comedy: 2021 predictions | Name some humorous news event to happen in 2021. (Conversational text) | CUL POL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
August 22, 2021 | 1450 | Putting the 'anoid' in humanoid | Humorously describe some aspect of our current society as a space alien and/or future anthropologist might interpret it. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
August 29, 2021 | 1451 | Could have said it worse ourselves | Give us a humorously bad "first draft" of a famous line from history, literature or entertainment. (Conversational text) | HIS CUL LIT | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
November 7, 2021 | 1461 | It's the eponymy, stupid | Create an eponym -- a word based on the name of a well-known person -- define it, and perhaps use it in a humorous sentence. (Conversational text) | WOR CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
November 14, 2021 | 1462 | Time for a new career? | Tell what would happen if any two people switched professions or other roles. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
December 5, 2021 | 1465 | Put your '22 cents in for our annual pre-timeline | Name some humorous news event to happen in 2022. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
December 12, 2021 | 1466 | Be invitationally correct | Give us a funny "correction" that a newspaper or magazine might offer. (Conversational text) | CUL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
February 27, 2022 | 1477 | Thinking outside the big box | Send us a humorous "review" for any of the provided items listed on walmart.com<\em>. (Conversational text)
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