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PERMANENT INKSTAIN FOR PETER JENKINS



WEEK TITLE SYNOPSIS INK Types
1466 Be invitationally correct Give us a funny "correction" that a newspaper or magazine might offer. H H
1453 Haven't read it -- mis-subtitle a book Choose any book title listed on Amazon and misinterpret it by adding a subtitle. H
1438 Nothing but the untruth: Fake trivia about the law Give us some bogus trivia about the law -- lawyers, courts, judges, police, odd laws, terminology, what have you. H
1408 Re-Organization Slightly change the name of a nonprofit organization and describe it. H
1356 Ask Backwards 38 Sixteen "answers" are provided. Tell us the questions. 2
1302 Ask Backwards 37 Fifteen "answers" are provided. Tell us the questions. Do one or more, up to a total of 25 A&Q's. 3
1284 Same difference Explain how any two of the items in the provided list are similar, different or otherwise linked. H
1272 The hex files: creative curses Come up with a creative curse. L
1249 Ask Backwards 36 Choose any of the 15 provided items and follow it with a question that it could humorously answer. H
1242 Generation Yux Give us a "then/now" joke. H
1192 Ask Backwards The 15 provided phrases above are the answers. You provide  the questions to as many as you’d like (up to 25 entries  total). H
1138 Show us your touché Offer an elegantly snide (and original) insult of anyone living or dead. 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. W
1109 Fictoids of Columbia Tell us some humorously untrue “facts” about Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area. H
1066 It's mating season Breed" any two from the provided list of 100 of the 3-year-old racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown and name the foal to reflect both names. H
1026 'Might' makes ink Give us a joke using any of the using any of the provided "you might be" templates. H
1011 Top these! Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back. H
949 Analogies Give us an analogy using "a is to b as x is to y." H 2
930 We WANT stupid complaints! Complain comically unreasonably about some innocuous thing appearing in the print Post or on washingtonpost.com over the next week or the previous few days. W
906 Your mug here Give us a new design for the Loser Mug. H
891 Mirror, Mirror Write a word-palindrome sentence, in which the first and last words are the same; the second and next-to-last, etc. W T
841 Food for naught Alter the name of a food or dish slightly and describe the result. H
805 Brand Eccchs Give us an original name in any of the above categories (not an actual badly named product). H
778 Tied Games Combine any two sports or nonathletic activities into a single sport or game. H
704 Another Game of Tag Create vanity plates for well-known people, real or fictional. H
611 Ask Backwards, Erudite Edition You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the sophisticated answers. You supply the questions. 2
563 Take Two Take any two of the provided items and explain how they resemble or differ from each other. H
497 Ask Backward You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? T