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larryhammerThe 2003 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton contest have been announced. Personally, I think the runner-up is a better bad sentence.
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- 1: “i’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror / it must be exhausting”
- 2: “my heart is full of love and desire for you! / so come on down and do what you’ve got to do!”
- 3: “they say this cat is a bad mutha— (shut yo’ mouth!) / i’m talkin’ ’bout shaft (then we can dig it)”
- 4: “(we better) stop / children, what’s that sound? / everybody look what’s going down”
- 5: “i would search everywhere / just to hear your call / and walk upon stranger roads than this one”
- 6: “what’s it all for / you better live now / before the grim reaper come knocking on your door”
- 7: “you’re the priestess i must confess / those little red panties they pass the test”
- 8: “like a wire on a spool i keep on unrolling / a single thread that seems to unwind and unwind”
- 9: “the air so heavy and dry/ strange voices are saying (what do they say)/ things i can’t understand”
- 10: “the moon and the stars / were the gifts you gave / to the dark, and the endless skies”
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Date: 19 July 2003 04:32 am (UTC)I in fact prefer the Purple Prose winner.
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Date: 19 July 2003 08:44 am (UTC)---L.