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PERMANENT INKSTAIN FOR ERIC MURPHY



WEEK TITLE SYNOPSIS INK Types
1499 Picture This, a cartoon caption contest Write a caption, eiher descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the provided cartoons. T
879 Say Venn Express some sentiment in the form of a Venn diagram. H
876 Oilies but goodies Write lyrics somehow related to the oil spill, set to an existing tune. H
794 Ripped Off From the Headlines Send us some Onion-type headlines. H H
756 Mess With Our Heads Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from March 15 through 24 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. H
735 Look Back in Inker Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 680 through Week 731. H H H
726 Limerixicon 4 Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary beginning with cl- through co-. T
723 Name Your Poison Create a name and recipe for a cocktail and, if you like, describe when it might be served. H
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 3
715 Your Mug Here Send us an idea for a slogan for the back of the new Loser T-shirt. 1
706 Questionable Journalism Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from March 24 through April 2 and come up with a question it could answer. T
702 Unreal Facts Come up with a comically false factoid. H
701 Untitlement Here are the covers for what just might be Bob Staake's next four books. What are they called and what are they about? M H
685 Thank it Over Tell us some things to be thankful for. 1
675 Cut Us Some Slack Come up with humorous ways to be lazy. H
674 Limerixicon 3 Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ca-. T
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
659 Tell Us a Fib Compose a six-line poem with the following number of syllables per line: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. It must be about a person or topic currently in the news, and two successive lines must rhyme. H
648 Caller IDiot Name a product or company and supply a stupid question to ask the consumer hotline person. P
637 Full Steam Ahead Write a steamy passage of a novel that's ostensibly by some well-known person who isn't a novelist. 3
635 I've Told You a Hundred Times Enter any Style Invitational from Week 536 to Week 631. Your entry must be substantially different from the original winners. 1
634 Mess With Our Heads Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from today through next Sunday, and change its meaning by adding either a "bank headline," or subtitle, or the first sentence of an article that might appear under it. H
633 Your Secret Here! Send us some original secrets (they don't have to be true). H
618 Of D.C. I Sing Give us a song about Washington, set to a recognizable tune. 3
616 Picture This, Kids Supply title and one-sentence synopsis for Bob Staake new kids' project, incorporating any of the provided cartoons. 2
615 Airy Persiflage Write some jokes you'd like to hear in an airport announcement. 3
610 MASH Find two well-known movies, plays, or TV shows whose title have a significant word in common, combine their titles, and describe the hybrid. H
602 Take a Letter -- Again Take a word, term or name that begins with A, B, C or D; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word. H
601 Anticdotes Give us an untrue anecdote in response to one of the provided Editor's Query topics. P
597 Eccchsibits Come up with some alternative museums and exhibits for the nation's capital. H
596 Take Her Words for It Use the words of this week's Ask Amy advice column, as a pool from which to compose your own useful (or useless) thoughts. You may ignore or change capitalization or punctuation. H 2
595 Listing Precariously Take the two subject listings at the top of any page of the Yellow Pages and create a dictionary definition for the compound word they form. H H 2
594 History Loves Company Name an appropriate corporate sponsor for some historical event or for someone's life story. H
587 The B-List Come up with an In-Out list for 2005, or other pairings. H
581 Evil Things in Store Think of evil or just plain stupid practices that the staff of a retail or other establishment might perpetrate. H
580 United Nations Combine the names of any two countries in the world and describe the new hybrid country. H H
576 Well, Excuuuuse Us! Come up with new excuses for any common human shortcoming or imperfection. H H H
571 A Tour de Fours Create and define a word that includes T, H, E, and S in any order. The letters must appear consecutively. L
569 Murphy's Lore Give Eric Murphy advice he deserves on the provided questions. I H
565 Anthem Is as Anthem Does Give us a verse for an alternative U.S. national anthem, set to any well-known tune. H 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. W H
557 Oh, for Namesakes! Take two people, real or fictional, who share some element of their names and explain the difference between them. H