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In this week’s Invitational contest, Week 102:
Tell us as many as twenty-five humorous events that “happen” in 2025, as in the examples in the Dec. 12, 2024, Invitational at GeneWeingarten.substack.com or directly here.
Write each entry as a present-tense sentence as in a timeline, not as a headline.
Begin your entry with a particular date only if it’s relevant to the entry.
Formatting this week: It's just our usual request that you write each individual entry as a single line (i.e., don’t push Enter until the end of each entry). This lets us shuffle all your entries with everyone else's in one big anonymous list.
Include as many as 25 entries in the area below where it says "Your answer." It's best to copy them in from another document so you'll have them if your computer suddenly dies or something, or if you click to submit the form and something goes wonky.
Note: Your auto-reply confirmation might be missing formatting, with everything squished into one big blob of text, but it seems that it's nothing to worry about; the entries have been coming out fine on this end.
If you don't get a confirmation within a few minutes that you've sent your entry -- you've searched your email filters (e.g., Updates or Promotions in Gmail; and good ol' Spam) and there's nothing -- don't just send it over and over! Feel free to contact the Empress at myerspat (at) gmail (dot) com and she can check if it got through. She might not get back to you immediately but promises that you won't miss the deadline.
Entry deadline is 9 p.m. ET on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. Results will be posted in The Gene Pool on Thursday, Dec. 26. Entries will sometimes be edited by the Empress and/or Czar for space, taste and just better wording of the joke. Unfortunately, time doesn’t permit full consultations about every editing tweak.
Every entry will be personally read and ruminated on (ewwww!) every week by either the Czar or the Empress or, when there's time, by both of us.
