Welcome back to the New York Magazine Competition. On alternate Mondays, 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 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. 17: BIOGRAPHY IN A COUPLET. Please capture a well-known life in two rhymed lines. For example:
Andrew Cuomo polls pretty high.
Yet somehow, nobody likes the guy.
Nikola Tesla’s long-ago spark
Now gives tech brats cars to park.
Kim Kardashian: famous for what?
First for that video, then for her butt.
Enter in the comments below, or on Twitter with the hashtag #biographyinacouplet, by March 20.
RESULTS OF COMPETITION NO. 16: THE LOST LETTR, in which you were asked for a familiar name, title, or expression altered by the removal of an E.
Repeated answers: Dead/dad. Being/Bing. Feather/father. Fate/fat. Heat/hat. Fire/fir. Dream/dram. Games/gams. The Da Vinci Cod. 50 Shads of Grey. Man Girls. Braking Bad. And, curiously, a lot of first names: Guns n’ Ross, The New York Tims, “Walk on the Wild Sid,” The Magnificent Sven.
HONORABLE MENTION TO:
Park Slop
—@schimmelgoldart
Ta with Mussolini
— @GBretman
Optimus Prim
—@and_read
Ocean’s Elven
—tsobczak
The Con Brothers
—morrisonsubject
Garden hos
—tomeg1082
O beautiful, for spacious skis
—chularanch
Chariots of Fir
—Caribal
The Rim of the Ancient Mariner
—intrepidrider
The Human Gnome Project
—raker
Be Her Now
—NYCTarHeel
Last, But Not Last
—MadeleineBegunKane
The Syracuse Orang
—prancer406
For Your Yes Only
—lionhorse
Fox News’s Roger Ails
—designnmind
The Dr Hunter
—kgar0212
Rx Ryan
—
riverhawk
The Dom of the Rock
—notalogin
Dud, Where’s My Car?
—77BC
Romo Must Die
—designnmind
He doesn’t have a car in the world.
—pampl
Drek Jeter
—NORTHEND
Bo Drek
—frankcoyne
Bruce Springsteen and the Street Band
—sdo2g72
Hell bent for lather
—@cautiousfeline
Dam Judi Dench
—@sjvarney
Hey Hey We’re the Monks
—@andrew_cowley23
AND THE WINNER IS…
Dr. Dr
—JDuggar
