Weekly Brain Baffler

NOVEL IDEA

Follow the directions here very carefully, and you will find a humorous ending to this sentence starter: AUTHORS ARE ALL ....

1. Take out all the spaces and remove the O.

2. Replace the two-letter postal code for a western state with a W.

3. Add two Ds at the very end.

4. Add "THE" between the E and the A.

5. Add an N between any repeated letters.

6. Add an I before the second A and a T after the A.

7. Add the word ME before the last two letters.

8. Delete every odd letter (the first, third, etc...).

9. Add a space and read the answer.