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Elphaba · 07-08-2006, 02:25 PM

The winners for the 2006 Bulwer-Lytton contest have been announced: The last one is perfectly...awful.

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This year's winners of the Bulwer-Lytton contest, a.k.a. the "Dark and
Stormy Night Contest" (run by the English Department of San Jose State
University), wherein one writes only the first line of a bad novel:

10) "As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break
wind in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it."

9) "Just beyond the Narrows, the river widens."

8) "With a curvaceous figure that Venus would have envied, a tanned,
unblemished oval face framed with lustrous thick brown hair, deep
azure-blue eyes fringed with long black lashes, perfect teeth that vied
for competition, and a small straight nose, Marilee had a beauty that
defied description."

7) "Andre, a simple peasant, had only one thing on his mind as he crept
along the East wall: 'Andre creep... Andre creep... Andre creep.'"

6) "Stanislaus Smedley, a man always on the cutting edge of narcissism,
was about to give his body and soul to a back alley sex- change surgeon
to become the woman he loved."

5) "Though Sarah had an abnormal fear of mice, it didn't keep her from
sqeeking out a living at a local pet store."

4) "Stanley looked quite bored and somewhat detached, but then penguins
often do."

3) "Like an over-ripe beefsteak tomato rimmed with cottage cheese, the
corpulent remains of Santa Claus lay dead on the hotel floor."

2) "Mike Hardware was the kind of private eye who didn't know the
meaning of the word ' fear '; a man who could laugh in the face of
danger and spit in the eye of death -- in short, a moron with suicidal
tendencies."

AND THE WINNER IS...

1) "The sun oozed over the horizon, shoved aside darkness, crept along
the greensward, and, with sickly fingers, pushed through the castle
window, revealing the pillaged princess, hand at throat, crown asunder,
gaping in frenzied horror at the sated, sodden amphibian lying beside
her, disbelieving the magnitude of the frog's deception, screaming
madly, ''You lied!"

uncle phil · 07-08-2006, 03:42 PM

"as the dawn spread her fingertips of rose..."

paddyjoe · 07-08-2006, 03:48 PM

I'm sure that last one was written by one a Dean Koonz' relatives......

Elphaba · 07-09-2006, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by uncle phil

"as the dawn spread her fingertips of rose..."

...sliding unerringly over the dew covered mounds...

vermin · 07-09-2006, 02:11 PM

"...life sneezed a booger of destiny at her feet..."

Elphaba · 07-09-2006, 02:14 PM

Oh gawd, that's bad. Good job.

daxia · 07-11-2006, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by vermin

"...life sneezed a booger of destiny at her feet..."

Elphaba · 07-12-2006, 01:06 PM

I don't know what year the above came from, but this is the newly announced 2006 winners. It's a long entry so I am not going to post it here.

B-L 2006

07-08-2006, 03:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	"as the dawn spread her fingertips of rose..." __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-09-2006, 02:11 PM	#5 (permalink)
vermin Indifferent to anti-matter Location: Tucson, AZ	"...life sneezed a booger of destiny at her feet..." __________________ If puns were sausages, this would be the wurst.

07-08-2006, 03:48 PM	#3 (permalink)
paddyjoe through charlatans phone Location: Northcoast	I'm sure that last one was written by one a Dean Koonz' relatives......

07-09-2006, 02:14 PM	#6 (permalink)
Elphaba Deja Moo Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA	Oh gawd, that's bad. Good job.

07-12-2006, 01:06 PM	#8 (permalink)
Elphaba Deja Moo Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA	I don't know what year the above came from, but this is the newly announced 2006 winners. It's a long entry so I am not going to post it here. B-L 2006