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| This Year's Bulwer-Lytton Contest Grand Prize Winner |
| 2007-07-31 |
| Jim Gleeson, 47, of Madison, Wis., beat out thousands of other prose manglers in San Jose State University's 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest with this convoluted opening sentence to a nonexistent novel: "Gerald began - but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten per cent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them 'permanently' meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash - to pee." |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 The ability to laugh at one's self is a scarce commodity in this day and age. I'm glad to see that it isn't a dead art. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-07-31 11:09 |
| #6 And Dan Brown wasn't a contender? I could only get two chapters into "The DaVinci Code", 'cause I kept tripping and falling flat over sentances that read like something from the Bulwer-Lytton contest... ;-) |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2007-07-31 09:39 |
| #5 This year's "Calvacade of Winners". I like the Plumber, Hippo, Fantasy Fiction and a few of the "Dishonorable Mentions". The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Site |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2007-07-31 09:37 |
| #4 Dishonorable Mention, and also the winner of the coveted Miss Congrandiosity title, is PFC Scott Thomas Beauchamp. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-07-31 09:02 |
| #3 I can only suppose that the interrupted original subject of urination—in combination with a triply redundant use of the word "ten"—took the prize. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-31 05:59 |
| #2 Anonymoose you're evil. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-31 05:51 |
| #1 Thank you, dear Anonymoose. What a wonderful way to start the day! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-31 05:24 |