[bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 16:44:15 -0700 (PDT)
big lol! and I love the Amsterdam/Rotterdam one, too.
Cindy
--- On Sun, 7/5/09, Shelley L. Rhodes <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Shelley L. Rhodes <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009, 8:37 AM
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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
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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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