WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1603 | Hu-boy, It's Limerixicon XXI | Write a limerick featuring a word beginning 'hu' or 'hy'. | L |
1590 | All You Need Is Ink | Take a line from a Beatles song and rhyme it with your own. | H |
1589 | Wait Wait Right Here! | Write some 'Not My Job' questions a la the NPR quiz show. | H |
1587 | The Trite Stuff | Replace some well-worn phrases with better ones. | H |
1583 | A Thousand Words | Write a funny poem about the artwork of your choice. | H |
1571 | Dead Letters, our annual obit contest | Write a funny verse about someone who died in 2023. | H H |
1557 | Tailgating On the Highway | Pair a Dylan line with your own rhyming one | H |
1519 | Dead Letters | The post-Post humor contest barely skips a beat as the Czar and Empress begin with the annual obit poems. | H |
1229 | Gorey bits from A to Z | Send us one of more edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. | H H |
1185 | The Rorschach of the crowd | Interpret one of more of the provided genuine inkblots. You may look at them upside down or sideways. | 2 |
1076 | Dactyly fractyly | Send us some double dactyls that conform to Gene Weingarten's rules. | H |
1074 | Let's go parody-hopping | Describe a stage or movie musical in a parody of a song from a different musical. | H |
1029 | Ditty Harry | Write a descriptive theme song for a well-known movie, set to a well-known tune. | H |
726 | Limerixicon 4 | Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary beginning with cl- through co-. | H |
699 | Our Greatest Hit | Take a word, term or name that begins with E, F, G or H; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word. | H |
689 | Busted Play | Come up with a more objectionable or stupid toy than a working fart-powered toy rocket. | 3 |
684 | Backtricking | Spell a word backward and define the result, somehow relating the definition to the original word. | H 2 |
674 | Limerixicon 3 | Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ca-. | H H |
656 | It's Post Time | Breed any two from a list of 100 of the more than 400 3-year-old racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races, and name their hypothetical foal. The foal's name cannot exceed 18 characters and spaces combined. | H H |
447 | Acronimble | Take any of the provided witty statements and use the first letters in each of the words to create a brand-new, unrelated funny statement. | H |