At one time in my reading-the-paper routine, the Washington Post’s Style Invitational was one of my favorite features. Thru the years and mostly due to when I switched over to online viewing, I stopped reading it. But recently I began checking it out again.
For those of you unfamiliar with it, the Style Invitational is a contest where readers are asked to submit entries for a given topic. For example, the very first Invitational in 1993 asked readers to suggest a less offensive name for the Washington Redskins. The winner came up with the Baltimore Redskins.
A few weeks back, SI asked for song parodies (click here.) The following submission was deemed the winning entry:
Other runner up entries were just as good however imho.
Another of my favorites and not just because my wife and I have “discussed” this on occasion:
The contest even featured folks sending it actual performances of their parodies such as this excellent and very funny one from Jonathan Jensen: