WK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK TYPES |
669 |
Huddled Messes |
Suggest some bad advice for new arrivals to this country (legal or illegal). |
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 |
657 |
Nuts Fruit |
Send in funny (but printable) images of real pieces of fruit. |
H |
650 |
King Us |
Give us a scenario for a horror novel based on an everyday item. |
H |
647 |
Paste Imperfect |
Change a headline or sentence that appears in the Post or on washingtonpost.com through Feb. 6 either by deleting up to 40 consecutive characters from it or by adding 40 consecutive characters from the same article or ad. |
H H |
646 |
Warped Perspectives |
Tell us how two different types of people, animals, organizations, etc., would interpret any of the provided cartoons. |
H |
639 |
What's the Small Idea? |
Do you have a senseless idea for improving the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans? |
H H |
638 |
The Little Bummer Boy |
Come up with an idea (and title, if you like) for an original Christmas movie or TV special that provides an antidote to all the sap, and give us a brief synopsis. |
H |
632 |
Live On, Sweet, Earnest Reader (Inc.) |
Give us an original backronym for a company or product. A backronym is a fake etymology that often gets in a little dig at the subject. |
H |
607 |
Contest Fodder Created! |
Produce absurdly parochial views of historical events. |
H |
598 |
Site Gags |
Come up with an appropriate name for a cafeteria--or meeting room, or an employee lounge, or some other workplace spot--for a particular institution. |
H H |
593 |
Take This, Job, and … |
Come up with some entertainingly awful things that a Job's comforter might offer. A Job's comforter is someone who seems to be offering sympathy but instead just makes the person feel worse, either intentionally or unintentionally. |
1 |
589 |
Hyphen the Terrible (New Edition!) |
Combine the beginning of any multi-syllabic word in this week's Invitational with the end of any other multi-syllabic word in this column (or in this week's Web supplement) to coin a new word, and then define it. |
H |
578 |
Ask Backwards |
You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. Send us the questions. |
H |
563 |
Take Two |
Take any two of the provided items and explain how they resemble or differ from each other. |
H |
559 |
Your Slogan Here |
Come up with a clever slogan or sign for a business. |
H |
550 |
Spring Cleaning |
Suggest creative uses for things you've already used, or never will use, or other disposable household thingies, singly or in combination. |
H |
536 |
And the Horse He Rodin On |
Come up with some words we can stick in the back of The Inker. |
H |
532 |
Short Pans |
Come up with a terse review (four words or fewer) of any work of art. |
H |
500 |
Ergo-Nomics |
Create a sillygism--a syllogism that doesn't quite work. |
H |
493 |
A Major Offensive |
Find something anywhere in today's Washington Post and complain about it with absurd oversensitivity. |
W |
468 |
Ism This Stupid? |
Take any common prefix and attach it to any well-known "ism" and define the new term. |
H |
462 |
Cast Away |
Come up with a terrible bit of miscasting in a movie or TV show, past or present, real or imagined. |
H |