WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1085 | Eww-venirs: Ideas for gift shops | Suggest a humorous--but NOT horribly tasteless--tchotchke, T-shirt, etc., from a real or imagined gift shop at a particular tourist site. | W |
1081 | It's the stupidity, stupid | Write us stupid questions that will make us laugh. | H |
1054 | Dead letters | Write a short, humorous poem commemorating someone (or maybe even something) who died in 2013. | 2 |
910 | Your ad here | Slightly alter an advertising slogan so that someone else could use it. | H |
903 | Bill us now | Combine the names of two or more members of Congress as co-sponsors of a bill. | H |
886 | Look both ways | Give us a new term that's a palindrome and define it. | H |
871 | Remarquees | Change a movie title by one letter (or number, if the title includes a number) and describe the new film. | H H |
861 | It's incumbent upon us | Combine the names of two or more freshman members of Congress to create "joint legislation." This week's pool of legislators includes only those who were elected to their seats before 1994, the first year we ran the freshman contest. | H 3 |
486 | A Word From Our Co-Sponsors | Come up with bills the new members of Congress might sponsor. Each bill must have at least two sponsors. | H H |
192 | HILL'S BILLS | Come up with bills any of the new members of Congress might jointly sponsor. | H H |
90 | BILL US NOW | Come up with funny legislation based on the names of the 102 freshman congresspersons. | H 1 |