WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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846 | Season's gratings | Write a brief (50 words or fewer) holiday letter from a personage from past or present, or from fiction. | H |
832 | Clue Us In | You supply one or more clues for the words in a filled-in grid. | H H H |
831 | A Big To-Do | Name a "bucket list" item for a well-known real or fictional character. | H H H |
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. | H H |
824 | Jestinations | Give us a slogan for any city or town. | H |
822 | For Real Folks | Suggest some attractions for a Festival of Real American Folklife. | H |
819 | Art Re-View | These objects are not what they seem to be, at first glance. They are something else entirely. What are they? | H |
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. | H H H H H 3 |
813 | Aw, Shocks | Give us a humorous example of the "shocking -- not. | 4 |
783 | The Shill Game | Name a celebrity or fictional character to endorse a real product or company. | H |
768 | The Events Described Herein Are Entirely Fictitious | Come up with fictitious movie trivia. | H |
739 | Lies, All Lies | Give us some humorous fictional revelation about a current or past political figure. | I H |
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. | H |
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. | H |
730 | Time-Wastes For Everyman | Describe activities that make entering The Style Invitational seem like a constructive use of one's time. | H |
713 | Painings | Name and interpret any of the provided paintings by Fred Dawson. | 3 |
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. | H |
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. | H |