WK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK TYPES |
1011 |
Top these! |
Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back. |
H |
932 |
We'll call them your-mama jokes |
Tell us an original "your mama" joke. |
H |
923 |
Chemical Wordfare |
Create a new chemical element or other chemical term. |
2 |
783 |
The Shill Game |
Name a celebrity or fictional character to endorse a real product or company. |
H |
782 |
That's the Ticket! |
Explain why any of the items on the list below is qualified to be President of the United States. |
H |
776 |
An Act of Sunny Side |
Note the silver lining in some otherwise disappointing turn of events. |
H |
764 |
Can You Up Chuck? |
Come up with entirely new and funny Chuck Norris Facts. |
H |
757 |
Gorey Thoughts From A to Z |
Send us some rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. |
H P W |
743 |
Picture This |
Write a caption for any of these Bob Staake cartoons. |
H |
740 |
Give Us a Hint |
Offer clues in various situations that something isn't working out well. |
H H H |
725 |
Beggars For Description |
Describe, without being boring, a cartoon to fit any of the provided captions. |
H H |
723 |
Name Your Poison |
Create a name and recipe for a cocktail and, if you like, describe when it might be served. |
H |
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. |
I |
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 appeal to the Harrisburg Patriot-News. |
H |
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. |
T |
705 |
Simile Outrageous |
Come up with funny analogies, perhaps with some 21st-century references. |
H |
693 |
Everything Being Sequel |
Give a brief scenario for the sequel to a well-known movie. |
2 H |
689 |
Busted Play |
Come up with a more objectionable or stupid toy than a working fart-powered toy rocket. |
H |
679 |
Ask Backwards |
Here are the answers. You supply the questions to as many as you dare. |
H |
675 |
Cut Us Some Slack |
Come up with humorous ways to be lazy. |
H |
666 |
Bedevil Us |
Give a mini-sermon explaining how some innocuous object or event signals the End of Days. |
H |
664 |
A Thousand Times?! No! |
Come up with a new signature line for Russell Beland's -- or anyone else's -- e-mails. |
H |
663 |
Worth at Least a Dozen Words |
Interpret any of the provided cartoons as you see fit in a caption. |
H |
662 |
How Low Will You Go? |
Humiliate yourself for ink, and a stupid prize. |
H |
633 |
Your Secret Here! |
Send us some original secrets (they don't have to be true). |
H |
631 |
Picture This |
What's going on in any of these cartoons? |
H |
504 |
Life Is Snort |
Write a schmaltzy last line of a "Life Is Short." |
1 H |
476 |
Portmanteautapping |
Make a new word by squishing together two existing words. The constituent words must share at least two letters. |
H |
463 |
Retell Sales |
Give us the beginning of any well-known story as retold by any famous person, living or dead, except for Ronald Reagan. |
H |
456 |
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. |
H |
405 |
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. |
H |
383 |
A Kinder, Gender Nation |
Take an noun and give us a reason or two why it should be either masculine or feminine. |
H |
372 |
Trial Balloons |
Fill in the balloons. |
H |
366 |
Just Fulghum |
Come up with a list of at least three Major Life Lessons one can learn from any of the venues provided. |
H |
362 |
Something Missing |
Tell us what is missing in each of the provided cartoons. |
H |
355 |
Seeing Stars |
Tell us ways we can attract celebrity participation to this contest. |
H |
353 |
Patently Silly |
What do these devices do? |
H H |
345 |
Picture This |
What is going on in these cartoons? |
4 |
342 |
Plainly Ridiculous |
Take any direct quotation from any article in today's Washington Post and translate it into "plain English." |
H |
335 |
A LOVER'S SPAT |
Enter the contest that is run by the editor of your choice. |
H |
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. |
2 H |
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. |
H |
327 |
ASK BACKWARDS |
You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? |
H |
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 of course must take place prior to the main action of the original work. |
H |
316 |
CALLING THE TOON |
What are these things? |
H |
313 |
THE STYLE INVITATIONAL SOUVENIR SHOP |
Come up with bad names for a new store at a mall. |
2 |