A few of today’s winners from the Style Invitational — this week, news or historical events presented in the “A” or “B” style of the Bullwinkle cartoons:
Second runner-up: 2001 — Bush’s tax cuts: Deficit Attention Disorder, or No Rothschild Left Behind (Andrew Elby, Arlington)
65 million years ago: Extinction of the dinosaurs: Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus, or You’re Looking Awfully Paleo (Danny Bravman, Potomac)
1773: The Boston Tea Party: Of Tea I Fling, or Hurl Grey (Tom Witte, Montgomery Village)
1996: The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal: Secret Service, or Insert Bill Here (David Iscoe, Washington)
1999: Bob Dole pitches Viagra: Where There’s a Pill, There’s a Way, or I’m as Horny as Kansas in August (Chris Doyle, Forsyth, Mo.)
2003: U.S. handling of postwar Iraq: Peace-Poor Planning, or Throwing the Baby Out With the Baath Water (Chris Doyle, Forsyth, Mo.)