Week 767: Questionable Journalism

A. I can't believe that even a French doctor would be okay with this, and I think she's being terribly selfish.

Q. Miss Manners, do you think it's fair for my grandma to smoke an entire carton of cigarettes every day, and refuse to share any of them with me?

The Washington Post prides itself on a readership -- still numbering in the plural -- that not only peruses the paper with avidity, but also has the penetrating intelligence to question what it reads. This week: Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from May 31 through June 9 and come up with a question it might answer, as in the example above from today's Carolyn Hax column. Please cite the date and page number of the article you're using (or if you're online, copy out that section of the article).

Winner gets the Inker, the official Style Invitational trophy. Second place receives the genuine idiotic beanie pictured here, found by the Empress lying in a pile of discards in the newsroom (she must start sitting up at work) and modeled here by the genuine Chuck Smith of Woodbridge, the Hall of Fame Loser whose name is more closely associated with The Style Invitational than any other, with the possible exception of Preparation H. Chuck posed with the chapeau at the behest of the Empress and at the urging of the crowd at this month's Flushies, the Losers' own awards banquet, which this year drew 70 odd (no hyphen necessary) lunchers to College Park.

Other runners-up win their choice of a coveted Style Invitational Loser T-shirt or yearned-for Loser Mug. Honorable Mentions get one of the lusted-after Style Invitational Magnets. One prize per entrant per week. Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.com or by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, June 9. Put "Week 767" in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post. Entries may be edited for taste or content. Results will be published June 28. No purchase required for entry. Employees of The Washington Post, and their immediate relatives, are not eligible for prizes. Pseudonymous entries will be disqualified. The revised title for next week's results was submitted by both John O'Byrne of Dublin and Tom Witte of Montgomery Village. This week's Honorable Mentions name is by Howard Walderman of Columbia.

Report From Week 763

in which we asked you to breed grandfoals, so to speak, from the winning foal names of Week 759:

5. Best in Shoe + Don L'Arson = Prada the Yankees (Rob Wolf, Gaithersburg, a First Offender)

4. Ponderosé + Westward Ho = Light Red District (Kevin Dopart, Washington)

3. Artsy Fartsy + YachtaYachtaYachta = PootinOnTheRitz (Beverley Sharp, Washington)

2. the winner of the souvenir Preakness glasses and assorted memorabilia:

Letter of the Law + PIN the Tail = Throw the Book ATM (Jay Shuck, Minneapolis)