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PERMANENT INKSTAIN FOR JOSE CORTINA



WEEK TITLE SYNOPSIS INK Types
528 Ask Backwards You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? H
271 YOGI BEARER Come up with new Yogi-isms, which seem to make sense, but collapse like a soufflé when you poke it a little H
268 WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? Take the names of this year's Triple Crown nominees, mate any two of them, a propose a name for the foal. The foal's name must be contained in 18 characters, including spaces. H H H
264 ASK BACKWARDS You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions? H H
263 THE GAME OF THE NAME Propose a bad name for the provided categories. H
262 CAMPAIGN FOR ONE Design a line for Niels Hoven to deliver in his campaign for a student government office that will wake up a snoozing audience. H
260 IT'S A SNAP Come up with replacements for the two hackneyed answers: "Is the Pope Catholic?" and "When Hell freezes over. H H
259 SPARE EXCHANGE, BUDDY? Take any phone number of any business or government office in the Washington area, translate the first two digits into their constituent letters and propose any appropriate one-word exchange. H
258 IT'S A BIRD. IT'S A PAIN. Choose one or more of the provided super powers and tell us what you would do with it. H
253 IT'S A PITY Enter any of the provided contests. Winners will be judged entirely on the basis of how pitiful an attempt at humor the entry is. H
251 QUOTH THE MAVEN Take any famous line, change it by one letter only (add, subtract or change a single letter), and reattribute it. 5
246 OUR OWN DEVICES What do these contraptions do? Tell us in 50 words or fewer. H
241 CAN YOU BEAT THIS? Come up with headlines describing the defeat of one pro team by another. H 6
237 ASK BACKWARD You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? 4
234 THE JOKE'S ON YOU Complete any of the provided jokes as it would be told by someone famous, living or dead. H
233 SEEKING PARODY Take any paragraph appearing on Page A1 of today's Washington Post, and rewrite it in the style of any famous writer. H
231 GIVING QUARTER Suggest a motto for the "tails" side of any of the state-themed quarters. H
230 TALES FROM THE CRYPTOGRAM Take any proper noun--a person, a book, a movie, whatever--and create for it an appropriate cryptogram. 1
226 GOING WITHOUT Complete some variation of the expression "An A without a B is like a C without a D. H
225 WE RESPECTfully decline to publish any dumb entries by YOU. Come up with signs for a T-shirt or a bumper sticker that hide the real message in tiny type. H