<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