Style Invitational Week 1488: Don't toss that! A re-reusing contest, plus double-entendres
Think of funny ideas for HIGHLY varied items at a surplus-good website. And we have the winners of our contest for things you can say in two different places (yes, including 'in bed')
Cartoon by Bob Staake for The Washington Post
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This week we bring back a contest we did in 2015: Page through the website of RepurposedMaterials, which lists everything from napkins to a diesel truck chassis, and think of funny ideas for how to reuse them. Deadline for Week 1488 is May 23.
And we have the results of our double-entendre contest, in which the Losers had to come up with sentences that could be said in two of the 10 situations provided. Among the inking entries; see dozens more in this week’s results:
At a religious service and at a gas station: “Looks like I need to hand over 10 percent of my annual income.”
At a gas station and in bed: “Yeah, it shouldn’t leak like that.”
In elementary school and to the Jan. 6 committee: “I need you to use your inside voice, Marjorie.”
In my supplementary column, The Style Conversational, I share the results of our previous contest to reuse products, and talk a bit about which topics the Invite didn’t get to spell out in this week’s results. And once again I share the Evite for the May 21 Flushies — the Loser Community’s annual potluck picnic/awards/songfest, once again at the very welcoming backyard patio of Loser Steve Leifer. Yes, even you are invited.
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LINKS TO …
This week's Invitational column, Week 1488, and results of Week 1484
The same column for non-subscribers (but do sign up — there are always great promotions going on!)
No-paywall entry form for Week 1488
This week’s Style Conversational column
Still running -- deadline Monday night, May 16: It’s our “grandfoal” contest to “breed” any two of the pun-heavy foal names that got ink in Week 1483. See Week 1487 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.
Also on Facebook, the Style Invitational Ink of the Day page presents one classic entry as a colorful graphic that's easy to share. "Like" the page to get it regularly on your news feed, or to scroll through the archives. bit.ly/inkofday.
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.