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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-31-07 12:31 PM
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WI man wins "worst writer" award
Wisconsin Man Wins 'Worst Writer'

SAN FRANCISCO -- A 47-year-old Wisconsin man whose blend of awkward syntax, imminent disaster and bathroom humor offends both good taste and the English language won an annual contest Monday that salutes bad writing.

Jim Gleeson of Madison, Wis., beat out thousands of other prose manglers who entered 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 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.

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/13787138/detail.html

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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-31-07 12:32 PM
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1. Damn it!
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-31-07 12:34 PM
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2. Ditto.
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-31-07 12:37 PM
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3. I've written much worse things than that
I just dont have the balls to send them to a contest.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-31-07 12:43 PM
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4. That sentence is pure brilliance.
:rofl: Now I have to go read everything I ever wrote to make sure I never wrote anything like that unless I meant to.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-31-07 01:08 PM
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5. That is truly awesome.
:D
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-31-07 02:14 PM
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6. Isn't that from Dan Brown's sequel to
The Da Vinci Code? Same style, anyway.
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