Probably the funniest experience I have on a weekly basis is reading The Washington Post’s Style Invitational column, which appears each Sunday.
This week’s edition is par for the course, except it has the additional thrill (for me) of including my very first printed entry.
To the challenge of “sneak a bogus question in during the final interview segment of the Miss Universe Pageant” I contributed:
Supposedly I’ll be getting a bumper sticker in the mail.
Are any other Dopers also Losers?
I am.
Actually, I won the coveted lime green “The Uncle loves me” T-Shirt in a contest they had a couple of years back for being The Uncle’s choice, which they don’t do anymore.
I’d be curious as to weather the bumper sticker is the same one that I got. It says
“sses! We got new improved Pre”
It’s on my beer fridge. 
Congrats you two! The Style Invitational is one of the things I look forward to every week.
Bonus points if you can find me a copy of the funniest one I ever read, it was something along the lines of “Products that just didn’t make it”. I (vaguely) remember entries like “Feminine Napkin Rings” and (for children) “The Devil’s Head Glowing Nightlight”. It’s not in their archives…
That’s awesome! I read that one this week and laughed at it (really!).
I love the Style Invitational…
I’ve got three loser T-shirts from the first year of the contest, after which I sort of lost my touch.
Weirddave:
That’s really funny! If it’s still that, I’ll be very proud to affix it to my bumper.
I’ll let you know when I get it.
I was a frequent Loser for quite some time. I have all the newspaper clippings from my heyday. I actually won once, though they changed my entry somewhat. It was come up with a snappy answer to a stupid question. Mine was:
Q: “Who do you think you are?”
A: “I think I am Rene Descartes, therefore I am Rene Descartes.”
For some mysterious reason, they added “Who do you think you are?” to the end of my entry. I thought it was less funny that way. Anyway, I won the back end of a turkey mounted on a piece of wood. I left it outside, and a cat tore it to pieces.
I have a few SI stories, like the time The Czar said I won, when it wasn’t my entry… the real beauty of which is that they said it again a few months ago in an anniversary column about SI. 
I have the T-shirt of the guy sticking his head in the oven, and a pile of bumperstickers someplace…
That’s a great story, The Bad Astronomer! And I’m even more prideful knowing that I’m in your august company in some way.
Were you credited as Phil Plait in your SI entries?
I’ve still not received my bumper sticker.