Follow-up on my honorable mention

[deckardcanine]

In yesterday's mail, I got a bonus prize from The Style Invitational: a flat fridge magnet that reads "Certifiably Inane" and shows a cross-eyed boy on a stool with a "dunz" cap. The accompanying letter reads thus:

Congratulations -- you lose.

It's not exactly the Breeders' Cup, but given the crop of stallions and (presumably) mares you got to work with in Week 814 of The Style Invitational, the offspring you produced in the second leg of our, er, Double Crown certainly deserves the payout enclosed within. It's surely the pride of the Invitational (un)stable.

Cherish your prize, you Loser, and keep it coming,

The Empress of The Style Invitational
losers@washpost.com

I knew to expect this level of irreverence, but the surprise was in the handwritten postscript:

Nice to have you back on the page!

Back? Did I get an honorable mention in the contest I entered before this one? I never did check the results. Alas, I don't remember what the contest was or when, and I don't feel like browsing the archives that long. Maybe it was some time after I moved to my current residence; that would explain why I never saw other mail about it.

Or maybe The Empress mistook me for someone with a similar (surely not identical) name. Or maybe she had strongly considered one of my entries and forgot that it didn't make the final cut.

Well, whatever. One magnet is enough.

Comments

[thatcatgirl.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool (considering the explanation posted later).

And, the letter's pretty funny.