>All you car nuts out there will certainly appreciate this one....
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>North Dakota man pens world's worst prose
>United Press International - Friday, July 29, 2005
>Date: Friday, July 29, 2005 9:25:03 PM EST
>SAN JOSE, Calif., July 29 (UPI) -- A Microsoft employee's comparison of a
>woman's "ample bosom" to a sports car's dual carburetors has been crowned
>the world's worst sentence.
>Dan McKay, 43, of Fargo, N.D., Friday was named winner of San Jose State
>University's 23rd annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, an international
>competition to write the worst opening sentence of a fictional novel.
>The contest honors the memory of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl
>Bulwer-Lytton whose 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" began with the now
>immortal: "It was a dark and stormy night."
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>McKay's $250 grand prize sentence was: "As he stared at her ample bosom,
>he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph
>Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on
>top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small
>knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as
>described in chapter seven of the shop manual."
>
>The runners up as well as dishonorable mentions are posted on the
>university's Web site: www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm.
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