Welcome back to the
New York Magazine Competition. On alternate Monday mornings, 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. 16: THE LOST LETTR. Please submit a familiar name, title, or expression altered by the removal of an e. For example:
12 YEARS A SLAV
BACH BLANKET BINGO
THE BOSTON GLOB
WARREN BATTY
Enter in the comments below, or on Twitter with the hashtag #LostAnE, by March 6.
RESULTS OF COMPETITION NO. 15: NEAR-MISS LITERATURE, in which you were asked for the title of an almost familiar literary classic.
HONORABLE MENTION TO:
For Whom the Bell Tinkles
—onvacation
As I Lay Stoned Out of My Mind
—CaptServo
Tinder Is the Night
—aholmes
The Spy Who Came In From The Pool
— riverhawk
1,984
—MiddleCoastDan
The Official Peppy Handbook
—@PDX_Prep
Rosemary’s Crazy
—@LolliMagoo
Unlimited* Jest
(*Subject to availability. May not be unlimited at all locations.)
—@MichaelMaiello
Lady Chatterley’s Mover
—@BroncosJeff
Their Eyes Were Watching Todd
—@soonest_mended
Tiffani of the d’Urbervilles
—catnap
Atlas Hugged
— 77BC
The Dropped Call of Cthulhu
—@xeoth
The Postman Never Even Rings Once
—cate88
A Pear for Owen Meany
—madamemillefeuille
Naked Brunch
—FlirtySanchez
Acid Reflux of a Salesman
—Duke8
One Flew Over LaGuardia Airport
—Hendoism
The Horsh Lispewer
— loobs
What to Expectorate When You’re Expectorating
— PinkPelicans
The Five People You Meet in the Men’s Room at the Greyhound Station
— jack4713
Da DaVinci Code
— RustyShackelford
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Lobbyist
—@LadaMokusa
Breakfast at Mickey D’s
—@CoolCzech1
Sense and Sensuality
—BathroomSexDiarist
Stranger in a Strange Hat
—RegisMayhem
AND THE WINNER IS…
Dr. Zhivago, D.D.S.
—@JonahNRO
