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- The Week in Loserdom:
- Losers everywhere held their breath and their Ask Backwards entries waiting for the second-ever anonymous contest to close. The last anonymous contest (also Ask Backwards) featured Smith, Carnahan, Witte, Hart, and Ferry prominently; will they repeat? Also, a surprise appearance on LoserNet by someone claiming to be the Czar. No word, as yet, on the true identity.
- Results of Week XXXVI
- Summary: Week XXXVI* called for Losers to provide the punch lines to jokes. As expected, the results were, well, I can say no more.
The Siberian Express: This week's cruise on the ice breaker goes to Courtney Knauth (as if that's her real name) for the exceptional "burning Bush" joke. She proved the contest had at least some potential and her entry deserved to be above the fold.
Score Losers: Hart achieves the only multiple this week, with a win and three BSs. This is her first win of the restoration and the first time she's scored the most ink since week XX. Her career total is now 427, a scant 38 inks behind Chuck Smith. Her lead for the year is back to double-digit and she now has a 20+ ink margin on everyone except Beland (whose eleven week ink streak just Firestoned).
- Week XL (design the back of the T-shirt):
- The Weak Week Prediction: The Czar continues with remakes of old contests. Losers have been tasked several times to suggest shirt backs or bumper stickers. The results are usually sparse and dominated by the regulars. Look for Smith, Witte, and Genser to ink.
The Weak Week Word to the Wise (WWWW): In previous contests of this type the Czar has shown a strong preference for twisting a common phrase or slogan. In addition to "Less Taste, Great Filling" he has printed "Almost do it," "The few the proud the morons," "Shirt Happens" and several others.
Russ to Judgment: On a one-seventeen scale, sixteen being best, Week XL gets a:
The Week Weak's Editor General reviewed the results of previous T-shirt and bumper sticker weeks and concluded that: (1) the results are not all that funny, and (2) he got a total of zero inks in those prior contests. If TWW can't hold readers, at least it can hold a grudge.
- Flushie With Victory (Part iv of vii): Personal Achievement Awards
- As it Stands: Several Losers have already passed significant career totals this year. Hart went over 400 lifetime. Beland, Genser, and Carnahan each passed 300. Paul and Romm passed 200, Sullivan 100, and Doyle, Genz, Hoven, Mellema, and Arnold all went past 50 career inks. By the end of the year, Doyle has a shot at 100, Witte is likely to pass 400, and Smith has an outside shot at the magical 500.
Several Losers are also having their personal best Style years ever. Among the more frequent inkers, Beland, Doyle, Sullivan and Genz have already hit more this year than any previous year. Hart, Paul, and Chung are likely to do the same before its over, and Genser, Witte, Smith, and Romm all have outside shots at their best years too.
With limited room for ink, and so many Losers doing well, someone has to be having a slow year. In serious danger of having their worst complete years ever are: Hull, Jean Sorensen, Grinath, Dudzik, Hoven, Blyveis, and Cuddihy. Each of whom could, of course, turn it around with one or two big weeks.
- The Week Link: (Week 85, October 30, 1994)
- Six years ago Monday: the contest, suggested by Sarah Worcester, was to craft Urban Legends. For suggesting the contest Sarah won a great "Fighting Nun hand puppet." The contest was won, three weeks later, by Ben Lea with one of the great all-time entries "The bloody glove had six fingers." The results printed with week 85 were for an "explain the drawing" contest. Elden Carnahan won a Pee Wee Herman doll for his cheap shot at the president's love of doughnuts.
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