https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2010/08/31/when-bad-writing-is-good/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:49:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2010/08/31/when-bad-writing-is-good/#comment-3546 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:49:17 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/2010/08/31/when-bad-writing-is-good/#comment-3546 If you haven't already, you really ought to have a gander at the Bulwer-Lytton Contest (It was a dark and stormy night…) at:http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/Some of the entries are absolutely hysterical. My favorites were the 2003 Prize winner: "They had but one last remaining night together, so they embraced each other as tightly as that two-flavor entwined string cheese that is orange and yellowish-white, the orange probably being a bland Cheddar and the white . . . Mozzarella, although it could possibly be Provolone or just plain American, as it really doesn't taste distinctly dissimilar from the orange, yet they would have you believe it does by coloring it differently."- by Mariann Simms of Wetumpka, Alabamaand the 2009 winner:"Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blown’ off Nantucket Sound from nor’ east and the dogs are howlin’ for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the “Ellie May,” a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin’ and Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests."-by David McKenzie of Federal Way, Washington

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