The Style Invitational; Week 141: Ask Backward VII

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 26, 1995 | Copyright information

Wet Hogs in Hot Pants

The Tenor Luciano Buttafuoco

Harold P. Christ

Monstrous Pillars of Interstellar Gas

A Toothbrush, a Comb and a Ball Peen Hammer

(a pic of Hobbes the tiger)

Twelve Angry Mennonites

Larry S Truman

Ace Ventura and the Hon. William Rehnquist

St. Augustine of Hippo, but Not Fat Joe Waldholtz

Betty Rodham Boop

Mailbombs and Broomsticks

This Week's Contest has become something of a Style Invitat...

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