WK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK TYPES |
1421 |
Alternaugural Address '21 |
Write a humorous passage -- a "quote", an observation, a joke, a dialogue, a poem, anything -- using only words that appear in Biden's inaugural address. |
4 |
1419 |
Send us the bill -- 'joint legislation' |
Combine two or more names from the provided list of the new members of Congress to “co-sponsor” a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose. |
H |
1418 |
Tour de Fours XVII: Just Undo It |
Coin a word or multi-word term containing the letters U-N-D-O -- consecutive but in any order -- and describe it. |
H |
1415 |
The Year in Redo, Part 1 |
Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1360 through 1387, except for Weeks 1361-1363. |
H |
1413 |
We're finna give you some new words |
Write a poem of eight lines or fewer featuring one or more of the provided terms. The terms must be used as they're defined in the new m-w.com listing. |
H |
1411 |
Back end of a Bulwer |
Write a humorously awful final sentence or two to an imaginary novel. |
W |
1408 |
Re-Organization |
Slightly change the name of a nonprofit organization and describe it. |
H H |
1404 |
Ask Backwards XXXIX |
The answers are provided. You supply the questions. |
H |
1395 |
Add nauseam: A plus-one contest |
Add a "plus one" to some familiar numerical grouping, true or fictional |
H H |
1393 |
Second chance (acned conches?) for anagrams |
Describe any of the provided anagram businesses, or offer its slogan. |
H |
1389 |
TankaWanka 4: Haiku plus tu |
Write a TankaWanka about something that's been in the news lately. |
2 H |
1387 |
Movie clips -- drop letters from the middle of a title |
Delete one or more letters (they must be consecutive) from the middle of a movie title, and describe the resulting new movie. |
H |
1386 |
Colt following: It's the grandfoals! |
"Breed" any two of the 70 foal names that got ink this week and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names. |
4 |
1383 |
Questionable Journalism |
Choose any sentence (not a headline) in an article or ad in The Washington Post or another publication dated May 7 through May 18, and write a question it might humorously answer. |
H 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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