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

  • From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:37:22 -0400

This is my favorite from this year.

Grimly aware of the rapidly approaching disaster, Spiderman leaped from rooftop 
to flagpole, from flagpole to fire escape, hurling himself recklessly from 
building to building, darting glances through every window in his desperate 
search for one vital room, while silently cursing the fact that the last thing 
he had done before donning a one-piece skintight costume, was to eat a large 
bowl of hot chili. 
David J Button 
South Australia, Australia





And this one requires some thought, smile, but definitely in the same class as 
Carrie's, smile.



I awoke in my sleeper on the way from Amsterdam to Rotterdam, my nightmare 
riven by a train of thought that abruptly stopped me in my tracks with 
cataclysmic, explosive, and yet equal and opposing force, like a train on its 
way from Rotterdam to Amsterdam; then I realized I was on the wrong train and 
headed for Rotterdam, instead of Amsterdam. 

Joe Dykes
Denver, CO



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: siss52 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 9:49 AM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence


  Oh, that is a funny one.  <chuckle>

  Sue S.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 8:22 AM
  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 
    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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