Style Invitational Week 1489: Movie things around -- rearrange the words in a film title
Plus winning new words that switched two letters of the original
Talk, Pillow!: A lonely woman wishes her most intimate partner would just love her back. — 2013 entry by Kathye Hamilton; cartoon by by Bob Staake for The Washington Post
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The Style Invitational is really pulling the switch on you this week: The zingy results are for our contest to transpose the positions of two letters in a word or name, like:
TENFLIX: A severely downsized movie streaming service, or
UMBILICAL DORC: A 40-year-old guy who still lives with his mom.
And in this week’s new contest, we repeat a classic we did in 2013 and back in 2003: Rearrange the words of a movie title and describe the new movie, as in the example in the cartoon. (But yeah, more words are good too.) Deadline for Week 1489 is Monday, May 30.
To see more rearranged titles — and to be sure you don’t send in the same jokes — check out those earlier results in my supplementary column, The Style Conversational. They’re classic. And it’s the very last call 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. Check the Convo for a link to the Evite.
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LINKS TO …
This week's Invitational column, Week 1489, and results of Week 1485
The same column for non-subscribers (but do sign up — there are always great promotions going on!)
No-paywall entry form for Week 1489
This week’s Style Conversational column
Still running -- deadline Monday night, May 23: It’s our contest for funny ideas to use any of the wildly varied surplus items available at RepurposedMaterialsInc.com. . See Week 1488 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.