FrumForum Summer Contest: Round 2

Written by David Frum on Sunday July 25, 2010

We had so much fun reading the entries for contest #1, that we've decided to try a second, based on a game long played by Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie.

We had so much fun reading the entries for contest #1, that we've decided to try a second.

Our first contest was based on a game invented by Eli Lake and Noah Pollak; this next is a game long played by Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie.

The assignment: Take the title of a famous book, and change one word in a way that utterly extinguishes the book's appeal.

Examples: "A Farewell to Arms" becomes "A Farewell to Weapons."

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" becomes "For Whom the Bell Rings."

"I, Claudius," becomes "I, Keith."

"Valley of the Dolls" - "Valley of the Figurines."

"Farewell My Lovely," becomes "Farewell My Sweetie."

And so on.

Same system as last: entries will be judged by the FrumForum staff. The three best entrants will receive a signed copy of "Hitch-22" plus one of our famous FrumForum "Who are You Calling a RINO?" t-shirts.

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