[bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:46:37 -0500
Actually Kim, that's two-thirds of a pun: p u.
Sorry about that.
Bob
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book, Books are well written or
badly written, That is all,
-- Oscar Wilde,The Picture of Dorian Gray
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From: Kim Friedman
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Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 8:08 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
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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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 6:23 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
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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From: siss52
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Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 6:35 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
<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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From: Bob
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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."
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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
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