THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. CONGRATS TO “Deborah Murray” FOR HER WINNING ENTRY. The Mixed Bag Challenge: a new question each week for the 15 weeks leading up to the Festival. Prizes include a bag for the best each week, and a raffle chance at Festival event tickets for each entry.
All those authors names…so tough to keep them straight. Robert Rabbit Warren?J.P. O’Rourke? Evelyn Wow us with this week’s challenge: 6. How would you botch an author’s name?
(Actual experience funny, but not necessary.)
Deadline: Feb. 11, Noon. New challenge then.
You mean like, “W. Somersault Moggam”?
Ralph “Where’s Waldo” Emerson
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Hans Christian Solo
Some authors are too dead to care — like the great English poets
•Percy Bliss Shelley
•William Wordswords
Some are probably too rich and famous to care — J.K. Rowing, for example.
But be careful when introducing the Crime Wave luncheon speaker whose name is NOT
Mad Breltzer
And the Breakfast speaker’s name — even at 7:30 a.m. — should not be Dan Ohreally
Top 10 fairytales by Hans Christian Solo -
1. Emperor Palpatine’s New Suit
2. The Little Skywalker
3. The Princess and the Wookiee
4. What the Moon of Endor Saw
5. Obi-Wan-Kenobi, the Dream-God
6. The Millennium-Falcon Passengers
7. The Stormtrooper Shakes the Shield
8. In the Uttermost Parts of the C-3PO
9. The Garden of Paradise Snare
10. Darth Vader Can Never Die
Vagina Woolf,
scary
Nikolai Google
Leo ToyStory
David Dalbotchi (perhaps I can avoid saying this if I win those tickets to the event with him!)
Charles Whatthe Dickens
Wallace Stagnant
Ralph Waldo Ellison
Walter Mostley
Yora Real Thursty
Carl Sandbox
Edna Convincing Millay
Adriana Liberace
John Steinway
Steven Ambrosia
David McGillicoulough
Garrison Keelover
Mary Higgins Clerk
Robert Luddite
If Rita Mae Brown co-authored with a mouse, it would be “Squeaky Pie Brown”.
typed botching
E.E. CUMMINGS
Ezra#
Adriana Trigonometry