WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1138 | Show us your touché | Offer an elegantly snide (and original) insult of anyone living or dead. | H |
240 | ADDING INSULT | Come up with elegant insults directed at any famous person, living or dead, such as the real encomiums above. | H |
229 | WE CAN'T HEAR YOU | Supply an example for any of the five "Things you don't want to hear" categories provided. | H |
216 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Pair up any two of the 400-plus horses who have qualified for this year's Triple Crown races, and name their foal, in a maximum of 18 characters, including spaces. | H |
167 | CRAPSEY | Resurrect the "cinquain," a long-deceased poetic form, poems so ickily precocious and pretentious they make haiku look like Kipling. There are five lines, the first containing two syllables, the second containing four syllables, the third six, the fourth eight and the last, with grave finality and thunderous drama, only two. Your subject matter must be suitable for the 1990s. | H |