Gee, I don't know, do any of you guys find that kind of disturbing and
exciting...
...NO? Well, me neither.
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From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Dave Riddle
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:25 PM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: 'World's worst sentence?' and it is FOT friendly!
>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."
>
>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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>Copyright 2005 by United Press International.
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