[bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 16:34:42 -0700 (PDT)
*Ex*cellent
Cindy
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--- On Sun, 7/5/09, Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009, 7:07 AM
Hi all,
Sure, that's a "catch 22", so all we can do is play "23 skidoo" in a 24 hour
tournament.
Ann P.
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 06:35:00AM -0500, siss52 wrote:
> <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.
>
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> From: Bob
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 4:43 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
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> <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
>
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> 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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