WK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK TYPES |
1027 |
Built for two |
Give humorous related names for any pair of features in a given building, organization, etc. |
H |
794 |
Ripped Off From the Headlines |
Send us some Onion-type headlines. |
H |
668 |
Cut From the Chase |
Write an original John-Bunnell-style wrap-up to a crime story -- or one for a more minor transgression. |
H |
615 |
Airy Persiflage |
Write some jokes you'd like to hear in an airport announcement. |
H H |
559 |
Your Slogan Here |
Come up with a clever slogan or sign for a business. |
H |
440 |
Picture This |
What is going on in these cartoons? |
T |
437 |
The Telegraph Poll |
Tell us the beginning of a joke that badly telegraphs the punch line. |
H |
423 |
Roling With Laughter |
Take a character from one movie, use him or her to replace a character in a second movie, and then explain how this change would affect the second movie. |
H |
422 |
Taught Language |
Come up with lessons learned from (1) the movies, (2) popular songs, (3) romance novels or (4) the comics page. |
W |
419 |
Don't Spare the Rodney |
Come up with indications that one might not be getting no respect. |
H H |
418 |
Xtreme Invitational |
Come up with signs you are overdoing it any in any of the provided categories. |
H H H |
412 |
Painful Climaxes |
Come up with statements that start really dramatically, but leave you sorta flat at the end. |
3 |
407 |
Adverbiage |
Come up with a witticism or a joke by making a pun out of an adverb. Unlike Tom Swiftlys, your adverb must modify not a verb but an adjective. |
H |
406 |
Bum Steerage |
Offer some spectacularly bad advice to any of the provided people. |
H H |
401 |
A Matter of Degree |
Describe a sign of some modest change in a situation and pair it with a sign of an extreme change in that same situation. |
H |
400 |
Life Is Snort |
Write a "Life is Short" entry in under 100 words, in the voice of a celebrity, living or dead. |
H |
398 |
Animal Magnetism |
Make great literature and/or a significant expression of the human condition out of the provided randomly-selected words. Use whatever punctuation you choose and any of the words, but only those words, and use them only once. |
H |
396 |
April Foals |
Mate any two of the horses qualifying for the Triple Crown races and come up with appropriate names for their foals. Maximum 18 letters and spaces. |
H |
395 |
Devilishly Clever |
Describe someone's special little corner of Hell. |
H |
394 |
Life in the Blurbs |
Come up with a blurb used to sell a real or imagined book or movie that would be likely to have the opposite of the intended effect. |
H |
391 |
Spinning Out of Control |
Take a headline in today's Washington Post and create a subhead that spins the story in an opposite or unexpected direction. |
H |
389 |
Operation Overkill |
Present a solution to a problem that goes just a little too far. |
I |
387 |
By Jingo |
Come up with a joke that could be written and understood only by a Washingtonian. |
H |
386 |
The Game of Clue |
What are some clues that someone might be any of the provided characterizations? |
H |
377 |
Week MMDCXLIV |
Provide a headline (and, if necessary, the first line of the text) for any article that will appear in The Washington Post on this day in the year 2050. |
H |
376 |
Apply Yourself |
Supply bad openings to college application biographies. |
H |
355 |
Seeing Stars |
Tell us ways we can attract celebrity participation to this contest. |
H |
340 |
ASK BACKWARDS 12 |
You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions? |
H |
339 |
Campaignful Developments |
Come up with signs that a presidential campaign might be in trouble. |
H H |
338 |
WHO WANTS TO WIN A TOILET? |
Propose even greater depths of shameless, tasteless sleaze to which Fox TV is likely to sink after the noisome debacle of "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" |
H |
334 |
The New Style Invitational: Six Choices for Czar |
Vote for one of six possible editors of the Style Invitation, from among the current Czar and five worthy competitors. |
U |
327 |
ASK BACKWARDS |
You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? |
H |
325 |
THE BURMA ROAD |
Propose welcoming doggerel for states or cities patterned after Burma Shave signs. |
H |
324 |
A PREQUEL OPPORTUNITY OFFERING |
Come up with a "prequel" to some classic film or work of literature. You must produce a title and a brief plot summary, which of course must take place prior to the main action of the original work. |
2 |
322 |
YOU NAME IT |
Take a well known pair or group of names, extend one of them in some manner, and explain how the group dynamic changes. |
H |
316 |
CALLING THE TOON |
What are these things? |
H |
313 |
THE STYLE INVITATIONAL SOUVENIR SHOP |
Come up with bad names for a new store at a mall. |
H |
310 |
IT'S LIKE THIS |
Come up with really lame analogies. |
H |
217 |
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT |
Come up with truly stupid questions. |
H |
201 |
THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE |
Come up with a new element and its symbol, and provide a brief description of its chemical or physical properties. |
H |
198 |
YOU MUST BE MAD II |
Come up with proposals designed to infuriate special interest groups. |
W |
190 |
OFFICE YOU CAN'T REFUSE |
Come up with a Principle for the Workplace. |
I |
185 |
WONDERLUST |
Come up with replacements for the Seven Wonders of the World. To qualify, an object must really exist, and be manmade and, in some way, awesome. |
E |
181 |
YOU CAN TAKE IT TO DEBUNK |
Take a common slogan or saying and prove it wrong with at least one example. |
H |
178 |
DEEP THROATS |
Come up with Deep Thoughts, in the style of Jack Handey of "Saturday Night Live." A Deep Thought is a short, simple, seemingly inspirational observation that winds up being cynical, ironic, or just plain weird. |
E H |
176 |
WRITE IN THE KISSER |
In the style of any famous author, write a description of any one of these people: Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Prince Charles or Sylvester Stallone. |
E |
169 |
DIFF'RENT JOKES |
Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. |
H |
162 |
MAY WE HAVE YOUR PRETENSION, PLEASE? |
Come up with the most pretentious original sentence possible. |
H H H |
161 |
CAPITOL MISTAKES |
Come up with very, very bad advice for first-time visitors to Washington. |
H |
160 |
SEEKING WISE GUYS |
Come up with cool new bad-guy terms. |
H H |
145 |
LOOIE, LOOIE |
Come up with paired, themed ladies' room and men's room signs for various types of public places. |
2 |