| WEEK | 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. | W P H |
| 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. | H 2 |
| 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. | H 1 |
| 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 | Come up with some inept "sweet nothings"--graceless terms of endearment. | 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. | H 2 |
| 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 |