A season that began with Surrey losing by an innings against their arch rivals Middlesex, inviting doubts as to whether their cricket manager, Chris Adams, would be awarded a new contract, has ended triumphantly with Surrey promoted, Middlesex looking as if they will inevitably join them on the final day of the season, and Surrey also about to face Somerset in the CB40 final at Lord's on Saturday.
It's cute, no doubt, often inviting a flurry of touching stories, torrid tales and silly photos.
Of course, Sonim was inviting it, while I doubt Seagate and Western Digital make any claims as to the slug-stopping power of their data storage devices.
A handful more are only slightly less worthy: the drummers Bernard Purdie, Benny Benjamin, Roger Hawkins and Steve Gadd, the guitarists Tommy Tedesco and James Burton and the bassist Carol Kaye (no doubt I'm inviting strenuous dissent from others' adherents).
But let there be no doubt, behind his inviting nature, Shekhar Kapur is a serious man.
Unless your pal is a real Perle Mesta (an old-time party animal, for the youngsters out there, sort of like an upscale Kardashian), I doubt she simply forgot about inviting you.
Any doubts about the wisdom of inviting Australia to participate in the 2013 East Asian Cup should have been dispelled on Tuesday as the national team coach Holger Osieck revealed that the Socceroos had discussed boycotting their debut tournament.
The design experiment's aim was to give visitors an experience of the uncertainties and doubts of historical knowledge creation by inviting visitors to participate in solving dilemmas and filling gaps in the reconstruction of a Viking boat.
The Geneva conference, even in its present proposed "contact group" format, remains in doubt as long as Moscow insists on inviting Iran in the face of Western opposition.
It is politically convenient for some to hijack religion in order to make abortion rights an issue of focus and there is no doubt that among those condemning Notre Dame for inviting President Obama are those who aren't even Catholic.
The most notable move was made by Wongluekiet (pronounced wahn-gloo-KEE-it), who might have erased doubts anyone had about the wisdom of inviting 13-year-old twins to compete in a major championship.
