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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-31-07 12:39 AM
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From Jim Gleeson...writer...
"Gerald began — but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent 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," Gleeson wrote.

Scott Rice, an English professor at San Jose State, called Gleeson's entry a "syntactic atrocity" that displays "a peculiar set of standards or values." Rice has organized the contest since founding it in 1982.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070730/ap_on_en_ot/worst_writing

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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-31-07 12:41 AM
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1. Classic!
Best Bulwer-Lytton entry EVarrr. :thumbsup:

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