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Lost In Translation
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Gene Weingarten
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Pure Gold
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Gene Weingarten
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Week 88: The Cold New Trend
What would be an even sillier new fad than decorator refrigerator shelves? Plus a hamster named Shaquille O'Wheel, and other great monikers for pets.
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Pat Myers
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Gene Weingarten
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Insert Headline Here
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Gene Weingarten
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August 2024

Flam, Bam, Thank You Ma'am.
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Gene Weingarten
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The Invitational Week 87: Get Thee to a Punnery
Change a quote slightly and credit it to someone else. Plus winning limericks.
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Pat Myers
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Gene Weingarten
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Get It?
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Gene Weingarten
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Genuine Class
Alec Guinness, whose name is an anagram for the headline above it.
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Gene Weingarten
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The Invitational Week 86: Call Your Dog
Give us creative names for various pets. Plus winning 'improvements' on sports.
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Gene Weingarten
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Pat Myers
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Cool? Cool.
For better or worse, our modern politics.
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Gene Weingarten
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Pant, pant, pant...
Hello, welcome to the weekend Gene Pool, in which I entertain you in return for your surrendering up personal anecdotes for my use next week, on…
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Gene Weingarten
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The Invitational Week 85: Hu-boy, It's Limerixicon XXI
Write a limerick featuring a word beginning 'hu-' to 'hy-.' Plus winning translations of 'Fee-fi-fo-fump' and other sound-phrases.
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Pat Myers
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Gene Weingarten
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