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The Invitational Losers compare two people who have the same birthday
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A memorial service for Elden Carnahan, father of Loserdom
Elden turned a newspaper humor contest into an obsessive competition and a lasting social community.
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It's The Invitational's 'foal breeding' contest!
Our biggest wordplay game lives on at The Gene Pool. Plus: Come and picnic with the Czar and Empress in May.
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Invitational Week 11, plus the Czar & Empress on a podcast!
Send us an AI-created picture -- and listen to Season 3 of You're Invited
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Live now: Week 10 of The Invitational
Celebrating our 30th birthday by reprising our contests from 1993
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Live now: Week 9 of The Invitational
A movie-pangram contest, winning faux-artsy ideas, and Q&A with the Czar and the Empress at The Gene Pool
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Live now! Week 8 of The Invitational
Caption contest winners, plus Q&A with the Czar and the Empress at The Gene Pool
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Week 7 of The Invitational: Arty Har-Har
Give us a funny idea for a contemporary artwork. Plus the winning of our 'circles of hell' for various annoying offenders.
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Links from Pat Myers, Empress of The Invitational, the irreverent weekly humor/wordplay contest recently canceled by The Washington Post but now run by the Empress and Czar Gene Weingarten at GeneWeingarten.substack.com.
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