In this week's contest: Write a caption – as many as 25 total – for any of the pictures appearing in Gene Weingarten's Feb. 9 Substack column, The Gene Pool, at GeneWeingarten.substack.com.
How to format your entries: Begin each caption only with the letter on the picture – as in “A. [your caption]” – so that the Empress can sort the captions by picture.
Special graphic option: If you’re accomplished with graphics and would like to put the text on the photo – including as dialogue inside talk balloons, etc. – note here that you're doing it, but also email your entry to myerspat369@gmail.com. It would have to look nice, not have spelling mistakes, etc.
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..
Entry deadline is one moment before midnight on Friday, Feb. 17. Results will be posted in Gene's chat on Thursday, Feb. 23. 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.
