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

To: "'Dave Riddle'" <dave@microworks.net>, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: 'World's worst sentence?' and it is FOT friendly!
From: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:36:51 -0700
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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Of Dave Riddle
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:25 PM
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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.

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