WK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK TYPES |
1195 |
Don't change a letter! |
Alter a movie title only by changing word spacing, changing capitalization, and adding or deleting punctuation marks, accents, etc., then describe the result. |
H |
1167 |
So what's to liken? |
Take any two items from the provided list and explain how they're similar or different, or connect them some other way. |
3 |
1159 |
It's all in the game |
Come up with a funny/ridiculous board-type game and describe it. |
I |
1158 |
What have we here? |
Tell us what one or more of these objects really are. |
H |
1157 |
Clue us in -- a backward crossword |
Supply clever, funny clues to up to 25 of the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. |
H |
1153 |
Be three-paired |
Choose two or more entities represented by a single three-letter combination from IAA through LZZ, found at the provided link, and say how they are alike or different or have some connection. |
H |
1146 |
Stick it to us with a magnet |
Suggest a new Style Invitational honorable-mention magnet. |
H |
1144 |
Someone else's business |
Name a real brand, along with something else it would be a better name for. |
H |
1140 |
You're giving us a bad name |
Cite a REAL brand name, past or present, note its original use, and then say what sort of product, organization, etc., that name would be bad for. |
4 H H |
1109 |
Fictoids of Columbia |
Tell us some humorously untrue “facts” about Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area. |
H |
1104 |
A pair of threes |
Choose two or three entities represented by a single three-letter combination beginning with E- through H- — see the links at bit.ly/abbrevs-e-h — and say how they are alike or different. |
4 H H |
1103 |
Themes good enough for us |
Suggest an existing song to be used as the theme for a TV series or program for comic effect. |
H |
1102 |
Let's get Sirius |
Suggest a new radio channel and describe it. |
H |
1090 |
Talk undirty to us |
Write a humorous poem in any form (no more than eight lines) that includes one or more of the provided words; the word must make sense in the poem in its TRUE meaning. |
3 |
1061 |
Less taste, more fill-in |
Give us a novel clue for any word or phrase in which the remaining letters in the provided crossword puzzle fit, across or down. |
H |
1059 |
With parens like these … |
Add some words in parentheses to a well-known song title to make it funnier in some way. |
H |
1055 |
Oh, K! |
This week, to commemorate both Kevin Dopart and his 1K ink blots: Change a word, phrase or name by adding one or more K's, and define your new term. |
W |
1024 |
Gorey thoughts |
Send us some edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. The pairs are AB, CD, EF, GH, IJ, KL, MN, OP, QR, ST, UV, WX, and YZ. |
H |
1022 |
What's the diff? |
Explain how any two of the provided items are alike or different. |
H |
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MOST OF YOUR INK
Here is, I hope, most of your ink to be found in the All Invitational Text list. I have to find these with what are called regular expressions, which is a method used in a lot of programming languages to find and modify certain text strings in larger corpora. Basically I look for something like this: "Report From Week 758" or "And from The Style Invitational four weeks ago . . ." and then some text, your name, and your town, arranged in this familiar way: "GlaxoSmithKline: I have six kids named Chesterfield, Winston, Lark, BensonHedges, Doral and Kool. If I name my new baby Nicorette, can I get a free coupon for your products? (Jennifer Hart, Arlington)"I don't catch everything, but I believe I find 90%.Unlike in the table to the left, I've arranged these in chronological order, so you can see how your humor matured, like a forgotten cheese deep in the walls of an old house. You started out, perhaps in Year 1, sending in riddles you sort of remembered from grade school, and now look at ya, ain't you Dorothy Parker.
[still working on this ...]
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