[bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
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I think I would call that metaphorical punning, but just plain punning
would do.
"If you
tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
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Hi, Bob and everyone else who delights in the slightly absurd, I've heard
songs which manipulate words in an interesting way. I really don't know how
to
describe this. Say you have a song using foods, fish, or animals to say
something. Here's an example of what I mean: "Gorilla of my dreams, you're a
cheetah
it seems, Oh, why are you lion to me?" or "I'm not floundering around and I
thank cod I never smelt anything awful. I was herring all manner of chough,
so I left for the halibut." I admire this kind of thing. Do we call this
extensive punning? Regards, Kim.
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No thanks Sue.
However, ahem, here's another winner that I thought was pretty funny:
Darnell knew he was getting hung out to dry when the D.A. made him come
clean by airing other people's dirty laundry; the plea deal was a new wrinkle
and
there were still issues to iron out, but he hoped it would all come out in
the wash - otherwise he had folded like a cheap suit for nothing.
Lynn Lamousin
Baton Rouge, LA
Bob
- "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same
time."
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<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.
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<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."
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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
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