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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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Pat Myers
March 2023
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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Pat Myers
Live now: Week 10 of The Invitational
Celebrating our 30th birthday by reprising our contests from 1993
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Pat Myers
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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Pat Myers
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February 2023
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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Pat Myers
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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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Pat Myers
Live now! The Invitational Week 6: Picture This
Our caption contests return with seven oddball pictures to choose from. Plus Questionable Journalism winners -- and how to deal with No Rules
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Pat Myers
Live now! The Invitational Week 5: Where in Hell...?
This week's contest: New circles in hell for particular offenses. Plus our 'joint legislation' winners.
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Pat Myers
January 2023
It's a prime-time Gene Pool/Invitational -- coming Thursday evening
Meanwhile, read Gene's tale of Buster, the mayor of his neighborhood
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Pat Myers
LIVE NOW! The Invitational Week 4: Our 'look back' at 2023, plus Questionable Journalism
Further adventures of our favorite joke-butts, crowdsourced from our band of Losers. And the new contest -- a chance to gleefully misinterpret the news…
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Pat Myers
LIVE NOW! The Invitational Week 3: Send Us the Bill
Join new Congress members’ names in our biennial ‘joint legislation’ contest -- plus winning obit poems for the exes of 2022
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Pat Myers
LIVE NOW: What Lies (Are) Ahead: The Invitational Week 2
Rub your crystal balls and help us build a timeline of events of 2023
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Pat Myers
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