[bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:13:15 -0500
Cindy, I would love to have the list of puns if you find it.
Thanks,
Sue S.
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From: Cindy
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Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 9:31 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
lol! That remindds me of a list of recent puns I received but I'll
spare you all. I loved them; if anyone wants them and I still find them
I''ll send them to you off list
Cindy
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--- On Sun, 7/5/09, Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009, 6:08 PM
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."
----- Original Message -----
From: siss52
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.
----- Original Message -----
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."
----- 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
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