Style Invitational Week 1492: Set us right
It's parity time! Send us some (non-hateful) conservative-leaning humor
Who says we don't tweak the libs? Our winning winning (though not accurate) prediction for 2018. (Name idea by Steve Honley; cartoon by by Bob Staake for The Washington Post)
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What’s the difference between a conservative commentator and a liberal commentator? One is called a conservative commentator; the other is called a commentator.
How can you tell if a pickup truck is owned by a liberal? That’s a trick question -- Volvo doesn’t make pickup trucks!
After being accused of refusing to publish any right-leaning humor — and protesting that she never got any — the Empress put out a call for some back in 2004, whence come the entries above. After getting the same challenge recently, she’s doing it again: For Week 1492 (uh-huh!): Send us conservative-leaning humor in a Q&A joke format or a knock-knock joke, as in the examples above. What’s “conservative”? In the past 19 years, “conservative” has become equated by many with “bigoted,” “hateful,” etc.; well, duh, don’t send us anything bigoted or hateful. But surely the Blue World has lots of valid wit-targets out there. Deadline is Monday, June 20.
And we have the winners for our contest for creative uses for any of the varied items available on the industrial-surplus website RepurposedMaterialsInc.com. Lots of nifty — if not so practical — ideas among this week’s inking entries for everything from a roll of artificial turf to pink steel pipe nipples to a mall kiosk to an industrial crane.
In my supplementary column The Style Conversational, I look back on the inking entries from the first conservative-humor contest 18 years ago, when I’d just begun Empressing, and talk about what would work this time around and what wouldn’t.
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LINKS TO …
This week's Invitational column, Week 1492, and results of Week 1482
The same column for non-subscribers (but do sign up — there are always great promotions going on!)
No-paywall entry form for Week 1492
This week’s Style Conversational column
Two contests still running -- deadline for both Monday night, June 13: First the one for song lyrics about stuff in the news right now. You can even make a video. See the deets in the Week 1490 column, plus that week’s Style Conversational. And see the no-paywall entry form here.
And also the one to choose any word, name or phrase beginning with A through E, then add any single letter of the alphabet to it — one or more times — and define the result or show how it would be used. See the details in the Week 1491 column, and the 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 have two seasons’ worth 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.