| | | | | | Dear Loser*, Aspiring Loser or General Hanger-On:
The White House staff is so inexperienced that ... it has never “been” with another staff.
That's a Style Invitational joke from ... 1993, the first year of Clinton administration, and the first year of the Invite. Now, almost a quarter-century later, amid a perhaps even more inexperienced White House, we bring back this contest: Write a humorous exaggeration in the classic "so X that Y" form.
And we have the winners from our contest for trash-tweets directed at laudable figures of history and literature. Like:
Such a nasty woman, @Cleopatra. A real snake! Nice asp, though.
In my supplementary column, The Style Conversational, we look at all the topical references in that Week 21 contest. How many will you get in 2017: Remember Herbert Haft? Don King? Joe McGinniss's Kennedy book?
This week's Invitational:
http://bit.ly/invite1215
This week's Conversational:
http://bit.ly/conv1215
*That's capitalized; named for the runner-up prizes emblazoned "LOSER," the community of regular Style Invitational entrants now proudly call themselves the Losers.
— Pat Myers, Empress of The Style Invitational
[email protected]
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