PERMANENT INKSTAIN FOR DAN RAMISH

This is what you've done, each Week. I arrange the rows in reverse chronological order, because there are some Losers, and they know who they are, who check up on my points-awarding every Week.

But I would just like to reiterate that such checking up is not a problem for me. I have said many times that each Loser's enlightened self-interest is my best QA.

If you wish to see what your ink was, refer to the Master Contest List or search All Invitational Text. Remember that Types I, P, some H, and sometimes A are seen "above the Report" -- that is, if they are listed here for Week 7777, for example, they will be found in text files or images of Week 7777. Everything else will be found in a "Report" section of a file two, three, or four weeks later; 7781 in this Example.

If you see any error, please let me know, elden.carnahan@gmail.com.

Key to Ink Types:

W: Win, whether of the regular contest or the auxiliary contests.
2: 2nd Runner-Up; this is second in esteem after the Win, and earns a Loser the crappy prize that used to go to the Winner.
3: 3rd Runner-Up.
H: Honorable Mention, sometimes appearing in the setup of a new contest.

WK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	INK TYPES
1096	Picture this	Write a humorous caption for any of the provided Bob Staake cartoons.	H
1056	Weather or nuts	Coin a term relating to the weather, climate, etc. -- either literal or figurative -- and define it.	H
1052	Clue us in	Come up with up to 25 creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms that appear in the provided grid.	H
1048	Ask Backwards	You supply the questions to as many of the provided answers as you like.	H H
1043	Rechanneling celebrity	Describe a TV reality show featuring a celebrity pursuing some unlikely endeavor.	H H
865	No Googlenopes left	Come up with a humorous Googlenope.	H H
827	Caller Idiot	Name a real product or company and supply a stupid question or complaint for the consumer hotline person.	H
821	Spit the Difference	How are any of the items on the list above alike or different?	W
782	That's the Ticket!	Explain why any of the items on the list below is qualified to be President of the United States.	H
769	Splice Work If You Can Get It	Combine two words -- overlapping by at least two letters -- into what's known by polysyllabic types as a portmanteau word, and by the rest of us as mash word, and define it.	H
764	Can You Up Chuck?	Come up with entirely new and funny Chuck Norris Facts.	H
762	Look This Up in Your Funk & Wagnalls	Supply the pair of terms listed at the top of a page of any print dictionary to indicate the first and last listings on the page, and define that hyphenated term.	H
760	Whacksy Buildup	Describe any of these Googlewhacks in the form of a question, "Jeopardy"-style.	3
755	Take Another 'Whack	Send us a phrase of two or more words that produces exactly one Web page on the Google search engine and describe the phrase.	H H H
753	Hot Off The Riddle	Supply a simple riddle and both the wholesome answer and the (printable) Invitational answer.	H
749	Opus 266, No. 3	Take any common word or two-word term beginning with any letter from A through H and give it a new definition.	H H
747	Boeing Us Silly	Suggest some comical ways to improve air travel, either in general or for yourself.	H
745	Hurry Up and Slow Down!	Suggest particular ways that would slow life down, or ways that would speed it up.	2
742	Clue Us In	Give us a whole new set of clues to a crossword puzzle penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache.	H
741	Well, What Do You Know?	Tell us what Major Life Lessons can be derived from any of these venues or situations.	H

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"

"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 ...]