[Jerome Betts]

Thanks, Roger and Chris. I've now seen the page, though there is still some problem. Maybe it's my steam laptop.

[FOsen]

Our own Roger (as his alter-ego, the mild-mannered Bob Schechter) pretty much owns this week's Style Invitational, with four entries (that I counted) receiving ink, plus 'a (metaphorical) “special star for creativity,”' among other compliments, awarded by the Empress. Every time I try and post a link, it's to a page that won't open - perhaps some person who's handier with them will do it?

Meanwhile, Monday is the deadline for the verse competition referred to at the top of this thread. Strange form: either one or two rhyming couplets in catalectic trochaic pentameter about a news topic. First and last syllables of each line in a given couplet must rhyme. Nice little tonic for clearing the old IP cobwebs, or the most fiendish contraption since the paradelle? I haven't decided yet.

[Marion Shore]

I got my FirStink award! 'Bout time I got an award for being a loser!

Here are my entries for the latest. I just realized I'm a day late, but I threw myself on her mercy, so maybe she'll let them in...


A Bill by Any Other Name…
Pled the right: "Get healthcare off our backs!"
Said the Court: "Let's call a tax a tax."

The Populist
Yay! Mitt is the people's man, it's true--
Hey, aren't corporations people too?

The Traitor
Though Ray Allen finds Miami sweet,
nobody in Boston likes the Heat!*

*This may not be big news to everyone, but in my house it sure is!