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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.5/2219 - Release Date: 07/05/09 05:53:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.5/2219 - Release Date: 07/05/09 05:53:00