THIS WEEK’S STYLE INVITATIONAL is just awesome. For those who do not already know, the Style Invitational is a weekly contest in the Washington Post’s Sunday Style section. It’s based on the contests at the back of New York magazine, collected in Maybe He’s Dead; but the Post version is a lot less stuffy. I still miss the Ear No One Reads, and the Invitational is hit-or-miss, but when it’s on it’s hilarious.

Here are my favorite excerpts from this week’s results. As usual, I liked many of the Honorable Mentions much better than the runners-up and prizewinner. The two in bold are probably my top picks: Report from Week CXLV, in which you were asked to come up with statements that would summarize the mind-set of your typical college freshman in the year 2020. Good answers too popular to reward: …Music has always been free.

Third Runner-Up: The U.S. Congress has always met in an undisclosed location. (Bob Dalton, Arlington)

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