Comments on: Mensa Word Play http://www.thulasidas.com/2008-09/mensa-word-play.htm Perception and Physics. Science and Spirituality. Life and Work. Money and Quantitative Finance. Fri, 28 May 2010 21:56:43 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: The Empress of The Style Invitational http://www.thulasidas.com/2008-09/mensa-word-play.htm/comment-page-1#comment-665 The Empress of The Style Invitational Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:43:06 +0000 http://www.thulasidas.com/?p=388#comment-665 It's true that there isn't a "Mensa Invitational," but there is indeed a weekly humor/wordplay contest in The Washington Post called The Style Invitational. And a contest from 1998 is the source of most of the words on the list above (but not, for example, "caterpallor" or "decafalon," which -- think about it -- are not one-letter changes from caterpillar or decathlon). Much better to see the real thing -- every week at www.washingtonpost.com/styleinvitational . The Style Invitational is a weekly contest with unbelievably clever humor contributed by thousands of readers. It's published every Saturday in The Post's Style (features) section, and online every Friday afternoon at about 3:30 Eastern time. This week's results (Jan. 23, 2010) were for a contest to write your own homonym or homophone -- a new word that is pronounced just like an existing word -- and define it. Some of this week's winners (from Week 849, Jan. 23, 2010): Ho-maid: The role of a traditional wife. (Judy Blanchard, Novi, Mich.) Hi-deaf TV: Commercials. (Steve Offutt, Arlington, Va.) S-Cargo: Snail Mail. (Don Hauptman, New York) See dozens of others just like these at washingtonpost.com/style invitational (click on Week 853). I hope you become regular readers and perhaps even regular contestants. Just follow the direction for each week’s new contest. Best, The Empress It’s true that there isn’t a “Mensa Invitational,” but there is indeed a weekly humor/wordplay contest in The Washington Post called The Style Invitational. And a contest from 1998 is the source of most of the words on the list above (but not, for example, “caterpallor” or “decafalon,” which — think about it — are not one-letter changes from caterpillar or decathlon).

Much better to see the real thing — every week at http://www.washingtonpost.com/styleinvitational . The Style Invitational is a weekly contest with unbelievably clever humor contributed by thousands of readers. It’s published every Saturday in The Post’s Style (features) section, and online every Friday afternoon at about 3:30 Eastern time.

This week’s results (Jan. 23, 2010) were for a contest to write your own homonym or homophone — a new word that is pronounced just like an existing word — and define it.

Some of this week’s winners (from Week 849, Jan. 23, 2010):

Ho-maid: The role of a traditional wife. (Judy Blanchard, Novi, Mich.)

Hi-deaf TV: Commercials. (Steve Offutt, Arlington, Va.)

S-Cargo: Snail Mail. (Don Hauptman, New York)

See dozens of others just like these at washingtonpost.com/style invitational (click on Week 853). I hope you become regular readers and perhaps even regular contestants. Just follow the direction for each week’s new contest.

Best, The Empress

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