<lol> Very good, Ann! Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 9:07 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence Hi all, Sure, that's a "catch 22", so all we can do is play "23 skidoo" in a 24 hour tournament. Ann P. On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 06:35:00AM -0500, siss52 wrote: > <lol> That kid could have written the sentence while reading Nineteen > Minutes, after which playing Twenty Questions while dining at Twenty-One!! > What fun!! Any more takers? > > Sue S. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bob > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 4:43 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence > > > <lol> that sentence could have been written by a fourteen-year-old in > fifteen minutes singing "sixteen candles" while juggling seventeen > penguins > humming the opening bars of the eighteen twelve overture. > > Bob > - "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same > time." > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Carrie Karnos > To: Bookshare Vol Group > Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 9:22 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence > > > About halfway through this sentence, I start screaming, "Make it stop! > Make it stop!" For me, this is THE worst opening line ever: > > > She wasn't really my type, a hard-looking but untalented reporter from > the > local cat box liner, but the first second that the third-rate > representative > of the fourth estate cracked open a new fifth of old Scotch, my sixth > sense > said seventh heaven was as close as an eighth note from Beethoven's Ninth > Symphony, so, nervous as a tenth grader drowning in eleventh-hour cramming > for a physics exam, I swept her into my longing arms, and, humming "The > Twelfth of Never," I got lucky on Friday the thirteenth. > > --Wm. W. "Buddy" Ocheltree, Port Townsend, Washington (1993 Winner) > See what I mean?? > > Carrie > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.5/2219 - Release Date: 07/05/09 > 05:53:00 -- AAnn K. Parsons Portal Tutoring Email: akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web Site: http://www.portaltutoring.info blog: http://www.samobile.net/users/akp Skype: Putertutor "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.5/2219 - Release Date: 07/05/09 05:53:00 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.