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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: “love, i don’t like to see so much pain / so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away”
- 2: “But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes.”
- 3: “here is the church here is the steeple / you were looking for saints but you only found people”
- 4: “i’d like to save every day / till eternity passes away / just to spend them with you”
- 5: “and he said to the man running the stand / ‘hey! (pom pom pom) got any grapes?’”
- 6: “i just found this smile to think about you / you’re a saturday night far from the madding crowd”
- 7: “Only the querulous cricket grieves, / And shrilling locust weaves / A song of summer dead.”
- 8: “windy has stormy eyes / that flash at the sound of lies / and windy has wings to fly”
- 9: “the stars are not wanted now: put out every one; / pack up the moon and dismantle the sun”
- 10: “dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called ‘life’”
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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.