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RE: 'World's worst sentence?' and it is FOT friendly!

To: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>, "'Dave Riddle'" <dave@microworks.net>,
Subject: RE: 'World's worst sentence?' and it is FOT friendly!
From: tom strange <tstrange@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:00:06 -0700 (PDT)
adjusting those carbs will never be the same again..... lifting the dashpots 
and looking for that little drop of fuel at the jet....  just wont be the 
same........

Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com> wrote:Gee, I don't know, do any of you guys find 
that kind of disturbing and
exciting...

...NO? Well, me neither. 

-----Original Message-----
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....
>_______________________________________________________________________
>___ 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.
>--
>Copyright 2005 by United Press International.
>All rights reserved.



Tom

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