Q: You famously got fired from WaPo chatdom for complaining when the Post switched to an evil hard-to-use chat software. The (static) engraving is from an 1898 edition of the Illustrated Police News. gif enhancement from Loser (and Imperial Scion) Valerie Holt. The picture is actually of the princess Salome dancing on her hands before the feasting Herod and Herodias, from the 14th-century English missal “The Taymouth Hours.” Let’s just go with the myrrh.” (Duncan Stevens, Vienna, Va.) “No, Melchior, the baby Jesus probably won’t care about your gymnastics skills. Medieval perverts could even find upskirt pics in illuminated manuscripts. (Leif Picoult, Rockville, Md.)Įarly gynecological practice gets off to a rough start. (Jesse Frankovich)Īs if his death sentence weren’t enough, James had to hand-walk to the lion’s mouth. The world is introduced to its first stuntman, Medieval Knievel. (Jon Carter, Fredericksburg, Va.)Īt that moment, the king conceived the idea of underpants. Leave a comment CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEK’S ENTRY FORM.įirst runner-up: And thus, with the executioner summoned, Western civilization would be spared from yoga for another 400 years. You don’t need any special formatting – just write it as what it ought to look like. )Īs always, you may submit up to 25 entries, all at once (which we like) or separately. ( The Czar is most proud of this lengthy poke, a loose parody of “The Raven.” It involves a chicken, shocking vulgarity and the specter of death by torture. They can have titles or not, as is your wont. They can be parodies of existing poems, or something you simply made up to convey your joke. They can even be risque, now that we are freed of the corporate yoke of propriety. The poems can fit any rhyme scheme or genre. The jokes can be old chestnuts the originality here is in the poems. As the examples above show (they’re from his old columns), you have great leeway in both form and substance the jokes can be short and dumb, long and elegant, or anywhere in between. Peter shooting then-NRA chief Wayne LaPierre in the crotch.This week, for Week 8 of The Invitational: Recast a joke – something with a punchline – as a rhyming poem, or “poke,” a term Gene coined years ago. Weingarten made headlines in 2013 when he penned a poem imagining St. "Apologies.(Also, yes, curries are spice blends, not spices.)"
"I should have named a single Indian dish, not the whole cuisine, & I do see how that broad-brush was insulting," he added.
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"From start to finish plus the illo, the column was about what a whining infantile ignorant d-head I am," tweeted Weingarten. I take nothing back," he tweeted.īut by Monday evening he apologized for what he said about Indian food. Food was beautifully prepared yet still swimming with the herbs & spices I most despise. "Took a lot of blowback for my dislike of Indian food in today's column so tonight I went to Rasika, DC's best Indian restaurant. Weingarten was defiant against the criticism in a tweet Sunday. ".seems to me once you go to Everything Those Bazillions of Brown People Eat Is Beneath Human Consumption it takes it into a categorically different place and suddenly it's just not fun any more," responded actor Vince Gatton. It is racist," read a tweet from filmmaker Arlen Parsa. "What is it with white guys with elite media jobs thinking everyone wants to read their dumb, very poorly informed rants about how much they dislike all Indian food? It is not cute.
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