Pat Myers
Empress of the just-axed Style Invitational, WaPo's humor/wordplay contest. Now back at https://t.co/F3yvHZGKnC -- sign up now!
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1 week ago |
geneweingarten.substack.com | Pat Myers |Gene Weingarten
“Trump is Trumpier the second time around,” sings Jonathan Jensen in a parody of the Frank Sinatra hit about love. See lots of other videos and lyrics below in this week’s Invitational results. Hello. Hey, WTF? RUOK? That’s our new contest for Invitational Week 123.
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2 weeks ago |
geneweingarten.substack.com | Pat Myers |Gene Weingarten
Hello. Welcome to the finish line of the 32nd Invitational Derby. As always, we challenged you to “breed” any two names from a list of 100 three-year-old racehorses nominated for this year’s Kentucky Derby and other Triple Crown races . . . and then name the foal. This is among the most ancient and popular and redundant Invitational contests, which we have introduced here for 30 years, always striving for some new way to make it interesting.
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3 weeks ago |
geneweingarten.substack.com | Pat Myers |Gene Weingarten
Above, Sandy Riccardi updates the lyrics to the song she wrote in 2016. Hello. Last week we posted our annual horse-“breeding” wordplay contest,one that many otherwise sane people come back to The Invitational to enter every year, along with our hundred or so Usual Suspects who enter almost every week (you still have time to enter!).
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4 weeks ago |
theinvitational.substack.com | Pat Myers
Breed Triple Crown nomineesROGER ROGER and PASSION RULES and name their foalYES YES I WILL YESRapture x Exuberant Mischief = RuptureMaitre D x Mistress = Maitre DDHere’s a special dispatch from my otherwise restful Empress page to let you know it’s post time (if no longer Post time).
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4 weeks ago |
geneweingarten.substack.com | Pat Myers
Breed Triple Crown nomineesRoger RogerandPassion Rulesand name their foalYes Yes I Will YesRapture x Exuberant Mischief = Rupture Maitre D x Mistress = Maitre DD—Hello. Thirty years ago, a hardbitten journalist by the name of Mike Hammer, like the guy in the detective stories, came to us with a contest idea.
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“I’d rather have bliss with two sisters than a cyst with two blisters.” Can you think of a funny chiasmus/spoonerism for our latest Invitational contest? Deadline Sept. 30. Plus: How to show respect/compassion for Trump-lovers. https://t.co/5opOjGwTaC