To recap: On Monday morning (or Tuesday, this week, owing to the holiday), we’ll lay out a challenge and offer a sample responses. Enter in the comments section, or on Twitter with the hashtag we’ve provided, and on Friday the editors will select a winner. Criteria are highly subjective, but heavily retweeted and favorited posts will have an advantage. The prize is a year’s subscription to New York in print or a two-year subscription to the iPad edition (winner’s choice). Full rules are here.
COMPETITION NO. 15: NEAR-MISS LITERATURE. Please submit the title of an almost familiar literary classic. For example:
THE NAKED AND THE KINDA SLEEPY
THE SPY WHO REALLY LIKED ME AS A FRIEND
THE GIRL WITH THE MISSPELLED TATTOO
WIDDLEMARCH
Enter in the comments below, or on Twitter with the hashtag #nearmissliterature.
RESULTS OF COMPETITION NO. 14: THIS MOVIE NEEDS MOISTURE, in which you were asked to replace a word in a familiar film title with the word moist.
HONORABLE MENTION TO:
The Good,
the Bad and
the Moist
—aronmio
M*O*I*S*T
—@alisonforns
Before the
Devil Knows You’re Moist
—trainofbutter
Sophie’s Moist
—@PDX_Prep
Paul Blart,
Moist Cop
—@IGotsSmarts
How to
Stuff a Moist Bikini
—@tremes15
Moist Llewyn Davis
—@StarkTTT
2 Fast 2 Moist
—AvenueHebrew
Moist and Confused
—@heidisloane;
CaptServo
Inglourious Moisture
—psybab
All Moist on the Western Front
—@_bmwoods
Things to Do in Denver When You’re Moist
—designnmind
Dial M for Moist
—@katyaliciajones
Moist on a Plane
—rgqueen
Sisterhood of the Moist Pants
—Cags
Butterflies Are Moist
—honey_badger
I Am Curious (Moist)
—ethnicgal
2001: A Moist Odyssey
—AlienIncognito
Knute Rockne: Moist American
—raker
Rear Moisture
—WolframAndHart
Peggy Sue Got Moist
—BambooLounge
12 Moist Men
—MyTaxReturn
Dial M for Moisture
—BathroomSexDiarist
My Big Moist Greek Wedding
—whygodwhy
The Moist Divorcee
—77BC
The Unbearable Moistness of Being
—fooffoo
AND THE WINNER IS…
Moist (Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire)
—PrettyPistol
