if you are illiterate read this inside.... hahahah

[HomeBrewerDude]

Bulwer-Lytton Contest Winners


Most of you probably know that Bulwer-Lytton wrote The Last Days of
Pompeii, which opens with the famous line "It was a dark and stormy
night." Hence the Bulwer-Lytton contest: to write only the first line of a
bad novel.

Here are the 10 winners of this year's contest (run by
the English Dept of San Jose State University).

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 surgeon to become
the woman he loved."

5) "Although Sarah had an abnormal fear of mice, it did not keep her
from eeking 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!'"

EDIT: yes i know about the irony of the title.

 

[chin311]

but im illiterate, i cant read! in fact, i dont even know how i typed this!!!1 AIIIIEEEEEEEEEE.

 

[DurocShark]

Love #1!!!!

 

[Whitecloak]

#1 is awesome

 

[Palek]

I think No.4 should have won. A penguin named Stanley, you gotta love that.

 

[conjur]

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."



heh heh...I like that one!

 

[maziwanka]

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

this one made me laugh

 

[guyver01]

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



what a vision 😀

 

[AbsolutDealage]

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.'"

That's gotta be my favorite one.

 

[MacBaine]

Penguin!!!!!!1!!!!oneone