It's The Invitational's horse name 'breeding' contest!

Our favorite game lives on at The Gene Pool -- sign up to play this AND the 'grandfoals'

Breed Triple Crown nominees
ROGER ROGER and PASSION RULES
and name their foal
YES YES I WILL YES

Rapture x Exuberant Mischief = Rupture

Maitre D x Mistress = Maitre DD

Here’s a special dispatch from my otherwise restful Empress page to let you know it’s post time (if no longer Post time). As it has every year since 1995 with its most popular wordplay contest, The Invitational — now on Substack at The Gene Pool — invites (it’s what we do!) you to “breed” any two of 100 racehorse names to make a “foal” name that cleverly incorporates both parents’ names. Deadline for Week 120 is Saturday, April 26, at 9 p.m. ET, April 26; you can submit up to 25 clever names (we’ll also take unclever ones, but they won’t get ink.

You have to subscribe to The Gene Pool to play, but you have the option to sign up for just a month ($5) — and that includes not just the foal contest, but also the “grandfoal” contest two weeks later, when you get to “breed” this week’s winning names. (There’s an EZ Gene Pool “subscribe” button right on the Invitational.)

And while you check it out, you’ll also see this week’s winners; in that contest, we posted a partially filled in crossword grid, and contestants could fill in any of the “answers” with either a real word or phrase or one they made up, then give a funny definition. For “_ CH _ ES,” for example, a runner-up was ACHIES: What owies become as you get older.

And your monthly or (we hope) yearly subscription also includes Pulitzer-winner Gene Weingarten’s devilishly funny writings on Our Current Situation in both politics and the news media, as well as Crazy Life in General, along with Q&As with readers. Sign up and you’ll get the Invite and Gene’s column delivered right to your email.

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