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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Bulwer-Lytton competition #4066 07/15/2000 11:55 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia paulb addict paulb addict Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia The Melbourne Age this morning reported this year’s winner of the Bulwer-Lytton competition for the "most excruciating example of truly awful writing". Enjoy! "Their’s was a love that transcended time, ran roughshod over moral dogmas, guffawed in the face of adversity, rent asunder the shackles of social convention and took a sledgehammer to the crumbling walls of religious doctrine: a passionate love, a tender love, a selfless love: not bad for two gerbils born on opposite sides of the glass partition." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Bulwer-Lytton competition #4067 07/15/2000 12:22 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Gee-miny Christmas! I'd love to see Avy-the-writer's response to this! Aren't there any nice horrendous crimes your paper could print, instead of that?? Am I given to understand that there is an actual contest, to see who can write the worst? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Bulwer-Lytton competition #4068 07/15/2000 4:19 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Thanks for bringing that up, paulb! I'd forgotten about it... Jackie, yup. Great stuff. Here's the web site if you wish to indulge in more preposterous prose (it even includes the original "It was a dark and stormy night..."): http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Bulwer-Lytton competition #4069 07/15/2000 9:46 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 I'd like to propose anything written by Jeffrey Archer. (Even if it wasn't written for the express purpose of entering this competition). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Bulwer-Lytton competition #4070 07/17/2000 2:06 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Ohmigawd, Anna! Unbelieveable! I suppose this one must have been given an A-for-effort: Jo-Jo, grabbed his tom-tom, while Lulu, a former cancan, now go-go, dancer seized her muumuu as they, along with their loyal canine Tin Tin (son of Rin), fled flu-ridden from a yo-yo so-so existence in Paw Paw, heading, by away of Walla Walla, for their tropical paradise in Pago Pago where they hoped to munch mahimahi, nibble on a bit of couscous, and pay an occasional visit to Bora Bora, or maybe even Wagga Wagga, finally saying "tata" forever to their life among the rah-rah Michigan set. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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