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PERMANENT INKSTAIN FOR DAN STEINBROCKER



WEEK TITLE SYNOPSIS INK Types
1614 The Tile Invitational XI Make up new words with the letters we give you H
1609 Saved! Tell us funny ways to be thrifty in these parlous times H
1606 The Cold New Trend What would be an even sillier new fad than decorator refrigerator shelves? H
1591 Our Typo Humor More fun with headlines. H
1590 All You Need Is Ink Take a line from a Beatles song and rhyme it with your own. H
1574 Oh, Grandpa, Stop! Turn a 'dad joke' into a less-tame 'grandpa joke' H
1567 Picture This A caption contest H
1563 The Perfect(ly Ridiculous) Gift Offer up some products for people-who-have-everything catalogs. H
1542 Your (B)ad Here Tweak an ad slogan to use it for another product H
1426 Mess with our (or others') heads Reinterpret an actual headline (or a major part of it) by adding a bank head, or subtitle. H
1386 Colt following: It's the grandfoals! Breed" any two of the 70 foal names that got ink this week and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names. H
1384 Of course there are stupid questions! Give us stupid questions, especially ones reflecting Our Current Situation. H
1373 Prime time for some Amazon reviews Send us a humorous "review" for any of the provided Amazon-listed items. H
1315 Clue us in -- our reverse crossword Supply clever, funny clues for as many as 25 of the 74 words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. H
1297 A different type o' headline contest Change a letter in an article or ad in the Post or another publication dated Sept. 13-24 by adding or subtracting one letter; substituting a letter; transposing two letters; or changing spacing or punctuation; and then add a "bank head. H
1244 Primed for product reviews Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon. H
1195 Don't change a letter! Alter a movie title only by changing word spacing, changing capitalization, and adding or deleting punctuation marks, accents, etc., then describe the result. H
1116 Punning in place Create a new term using only the letters in a place name. You don't have to use all the letters, but you can't use a letter more often than it appears in the word. H
1106 Show your resolve Suggest a New Year's resolution that someone might make 100 or more years in the future. H
1026 'Might' makes ink Give us a joke using any of the using any of the provided "you might be" templates. H
988 A faster break Suggest ways to make sports and other leisure activities more time-efficient or exciting. H
966 Inkremental change Start with any word or name, and create a series of words that change by one letter at a time, until you come up with a related word or name. H
958 All's Weller Write a "wellerism," a sentence that starts with a quote, often a short proverb, and goes on to include some sort of wordplay on something in the quote. 4
945 Laugh-baked ideas Cleverly depict a person, event or phenomenon of the 21st century — real history as well as scenes from movies, books, videos, etc. — using edible materials, and send us a photo of your creation. H