Style Invitational Week 1484: Two ways about it — double-entendres
What sentence can you say both at the gym and at the hairstylist? Etc. Plus fake meanings for odd words.
By Bob Staake for The Washington Post
Something you might say at the gym AND at the hairstylist: “Look how much I can curl!”
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Here’s another run of a double-entendre contest we did in 2019, with all new categories except for an encore of “at the hairstylist” and that ever-popular “in bed.” This week: What’s something (printable) you could say in two — or more — of these situations: ●In bed ● In elementary school ●At a religious service ● At a gas station ● At the gym ● and five more …
It’s all in this week’s Style Invitational. Deadline for Week 1484: Monday night, April 25.
And we have the results of our Week 1480 contest, in which the Empress dug up several dozen obscure words from the Oxford English Dictionary and asked the Losers to make up totally fake definitions. So a sweven isn’t a dream or vision, but “a bad answer to ‘Just how many drinks have you had?’ ”
The 2019 double-entendre contest had a truly hilarious set of results; I share the cream of them in my supplementary column, The Style Conversational. Like: Something you could say both at Ikea and at a doctor’s office: “This is the oddest-looking stool I’ve ever seen.”
LINKS TO …
This week's Invitational column, Week 1484, and results of Week 1480
The same column for non-subscribers (but do sign up — there are always great promotions going on!)
No-paywall entry form for Week 1484
This week’s Style Conversational column
Still running -- deadline Monday night, April 18: It’s our biggest contest of the year: our contest in which you “breed” any two Triple Crown-nominated racehorses from a list of 100 and name a “foal” cleverly referencing both names. See Week 1483 here; see the no-paywall entry form here.
More ways to enjoy The Style Invitational and be part of the Loser Community:
Join the Style Invitational Devotees group on Facebook and the Devs will anagram your name every which way.
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And we're now on Season 2 of the You're Invited podcast, half-hour episodes with host Mike Gips and various Invite luminaries. Catch all 18 episodes at bit.ly/invite-podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
— Pat Myers, Empress of The Style Invitational, pat.myers@washpost.com (or just reply to this email)
*That's Loser with a capital L; named for the runner-up prizes emblazoned "LOSER," the community of regular Style Invitational entrants now proudly calls itself the Losers. If you enter the Invite, you're a Genuine Loser. But not (necessarily) a loser.