[bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence

  • From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:35:00 -0500

<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





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