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

  • From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:09:40 -0700

Hi, Sue, you are right and I didn't think of that. Thanks. I wish I were
good with plays on words, but I'm happy there are people with the verbal
facility to do that. O would that were me! Regards, Kim.

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Correctly, I would call these examples "play on words" rather than puns.
Just my thoughts.  Whatever, they are very clever and fun!!
 
Sue S.
 
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From: Kim Friedman <mailto:kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>  
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Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 8:08 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence

Hi, Bob and everyone else who delights in the slightly absurd, I've heard
songs which manipulate words in an interesting way. I really don't know how
to describe this. Say you have a song using foods, fish, or animals to say
something. Here's an example of what I mean: "Gorilla of my dreams, you're a
cheetah it seems, Oh, why are you lion to me?" or "I'm not floundering
around and I thank cod I never smelt anything awful. I was herring all
manner of chough, so I left for the halibut."  I admire this kind of thing.
Do we call this extensive punning? Regards, Kim.

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 6:23 AM
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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."


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Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 6:35 AM
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<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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Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 4:43 AM
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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 <mailto:ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>  
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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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