Style Invitational Week 1123: It’s The Tile Invitational III — words
from ScrabbleGrams
Plus the winning names for new colors
One of many, many, many (trust us) neologisms to be found in the letter
set ADNORTU. (Bob Staake for The Washington Post )
By Pat Myers May 7
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*ADNORTU — DONRUT: The ditch off the New Jersey Turnpike where they
buried those Mafiosi.*
*ADNORTU — OUTDARN: Definitively swear a baby-blue streak. “Grandma
outdarned all the other ladies at the church social when the casserole
pan fell off the table.” *
*ADNORTU — ROADNUT: The guy who weaves frantically from lane to lane so
he can end up second in line instead of third at the stoplight. *
Actually, it’s a highly colorful game, complete with bright yellow poo
that you cram into Doggie’s mouth and pump until it comes out the other
end. (If.) See the video at bit.ly/doggiedootest.
For the third straight May, it’s our tribute to ScrabbleGrams, the word
puzzle that appears daily on The Post’s comics pages: *At the bottom of
this page is a list of 40 seven-letter sets taken from “The Big Book of
ScrabbleGrams.”
Give us a five-, six- or seven-letter word (or two words) by scrambling
the letters of any of the sets and define it, *as in the examples above.
The word may be a brand-new term, as in the examples, but you may also
find an existing word and supply a clever definition for it. Funny
sample sentences are good, too. Note that we are /not/ playing for
Scrabble points, as in the real game; the letter values don’t matter.
*Really important: The Empress will be sorting the entries by the
original letter set, so you must include the set, in the original letter
order, on the same line as your entry, as above; each entry should be
one line long (with no line breaks). *
Winner gets the Inkin’ Memorial
,
the Lincoln statue bobblehead that is the official Style Invitational
trophy. Second place receives one of the most mystifyingly bad ideas
ever for a toy: It is a game called Doggie Doo, which features a large
plastic dachshund into whose mouth you cram some Play-Doh-type “food”;
then you pump and pump a handle on its leash until Doggie poops it out.
If that doesn’t work for, uh, squat — which is what happened in the
Empress’s test; see it at bit.ly/doggiedootest
— you’re supposed to keep cramming and
pumping, then blow into the poor dog’s mouth. Found on clearance (big
surprise there!) by Loser Nan Reiner.
*Other runners-up* win their choice of a yearned-for Loser Mug
or the ardently
desired “Whole Fools” Grossery Bag.
Honorable
mentions get a lusted-after Loser magnet designed by Bob Staake: either
“The Wit Hit the Fan”
or
“Hardly Har-Har.”
First
Offenders receive a smelly tree-shaped air “freshener” (FirStink
for their first ink). E-mail entries to /losers@washpost.com
/ or, if you were born in the 19th century,
fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday night, May 18; results published
June 7 (online June 4). You may submit up to 25 entries per contest.
Include “Week 1123” in your e-mail subject line or it might be ignored
as spam. Include your real name, postal address and phone number with
your entry. See contest rules and guidelines at wapo.st/InvRules
. The headline for this week’s results is by
Tom Witte; the honorable-mentions subhead is by Kevin Dopart. Join the
lively Style Invitational Devotees group on Facebook at /on.fb.me/invdev
./ “Like” the Style Invitational Ink of the Day
on Facebook at /bit.ly/inkofday. /
*The Style Conversational: *The Empress’s weekly online column discusses
each new contest and set of results. Especially if you plan to enter,
check it out at wapo.st/styleconv
.
And the results of The Style Invitational’s contest posted four weeks
ago . . .
*THE JOKE’S ON HUE: THE NEW COLORS FROM WEEK 1119:
In Week 1119 we asked for new color names — for crayons, house paint,
clothes, whatever — that reflect the current age, along with a
description.
Some people didn’t include the latter; the funniest of
those was Sandy Moran, who offered Aw Crap, Is This Miracle Whip? White.
Other direction-non-followers, instead of describing a color, used color
names to coin new terms, such as “H&R Black: We guarantee you’ll never
see red or your money back” (Gordon Cobb). Sent by many: Jerry Brown,
the color of unwatered grass.
4th place:
*Same Old Slate: *Color scheme for the 2016 Bush-Clinton debates. (Frank
Osen, Pasadena, Calif.)
3rd place:
*Christian Grey: *Ironically, it’s terribly inappropriate for a church.
(Danielle Nowlin, Fairfax Station, Va.)
2nd place and the stuffed, noisemaking Happy Pill:
*Kardashian Blush:* Crayola was going to market that color, but it turns
out that it doesn’t exist. (Edward Gordon, Austin)
And the winner of the Inkin’ Memorial:
*Lilac a Rug:* A shade bolder than White Lie. (John McCooey, Rehoboth
Beach, Del.)
28 shades of nay: honorable mentions
*Indigo Montoya:* Prepare to dye. (Warren Tanabe, Annapolis, Md.; David
Friedman, Arlington, Va.)
*Unred: *What today’s newspapers are, all over. (Ann Martin, Falls
Church, Va.)
*Spinal Taupe:* It’s just a bit louder than other taupes. (Jeff Shirley,
Richmond, Va.)
*Jet Black & Blue:* Color of a tall person’s knees after a
coast-to-coast flight. (Jim Stiles, Rockville, Md.)
*Nest Eggshell: *A disappearing white. (Curtis Morrison, Chesapeake, Va.)
*Andy Marooney: *Back in my day, we just called it red. (Robert
Schechter, Dix Hills, N.Y.)
*Chain Smochre:* A brownish-yellow tone used on everything from clothes
to teeth. (Dave Prevar, Annapolis, Md.)
*Beat Red: *The color of Roger Goodell’s face while insisting he hadn’t
seen the Ray Rice video. (Todd DeLap, Fairfax, Va.)
*Trump Red:* A rich maroon. (Jeff Contompasis, Ashburn, Va.)
*Goooooold:* The color of the World Cup trophy. (Emily Davis,
Bloomington, Ind., a First Offender)
*Kiddie Pool Blue:* A cool cerulean with undertones of warm yellow. (Rob
Huffman, Fredericksburg, Va.)
*Not Vermilion:* Once a favorite of naysayers, recently updated to Not
Verbilion. (Frank Osen)
*Fuchsiashima: *Glow-in-the-dark purple. (Kathleen DeBold, Burtonsville,
Md.)
*Obamatone:* Half black, half white, and red all over. — R. Limbaugh
(Mark Raffman, Reston, Va.)
*Bureaucratic Maize: *The glossy golden color of a federal employee’s
eyeballs. (Scott Warner, Hagerstown, Md., who last got ink in Week 54,
21 years ago)
*Azure Wish:* The color ofCary Elwes’s
eyes. (Danielle Nowlin)
*Climate Fuchsia: *Rosy. — J. Inhofe, Everythings, OK (Kevin Dopart,
Washington)
*Inhofe:* Inuit word for the color of melting Arctic sea ice. (Megan
Durham, Fairfax)
*Perple:* The color of bruises on a suspect who “falls” while being
arrested. (Chris Doyle, Ponder, Tex.)
*Phone Umber:* A less obtrusive paint color for cellular towers.
(Beverley Sharp, Montgomery, Ala.)
*Tall Teal: *The color of Brian Williams’s flak jacket. (Mark Raffman)
*Pitch Blue:* The color of skin when whacked with a fastball. (Philip
Justus, Potomac, Md.)
*Pain & Saffron:* The color used to decorate personal-injury lawyers’
offices. (Mae Scanlan, Washington)
*Beiging:* The color of the air in China. (Beverley Sharp; Chris Doyle)
*Minnesota Choral:* The pinkish-white of the St. Olaf’s College choir.
(Phil Frankenfeld, Washington)
*Board of Directors Rainbow:* The full spectrum from white to beige.
(Mark Richardson, Takoma Park)
*Harvard Crimson: *Just a shade less bright than Stanford Cardinal.
(Mark Raffman, Harvard Law, ’86)
*Invisible Ink:* The color the Empress uses when printing my entries.
(Bruce Carlson, Alexandria, who’s had regular-color ink 20 times)
*Still running — deadline Monday night: Our annual “grandfoals” contest
to “breed” two horse names. See bit.ly/invite1122.
*
*THE SCRABBLEGRAMS SETS FOR WEEK 1123*
AAABKLV
AACELMN
AADGGLR
AADEITW
AAIMRSU
ABCFILO
ABDGLUY
ABEITUX
ABEELNU
ABILORT
ACDILOR
ADDEITU
ADELNTW
ADNORTU
AEELLWY
AEMPRSV
AEGLMPU
AEFLLNN
AFILSTY
AHLOOPW
AIMSSTU
ALNOPPY
BBHIRSU
BCIOORT
BEEKNOT
CCELLOT
CDIRTUY
CEHMOPR
CELLOSY
CORRSUY
EKNRTUY
EILMOSS
GILORTY
HILSTXY
EFFILRY
EHIMNPS
EGLOPSS
GIINPTY
HINORSU
MOOPSTT