Reminds me of the Bulwer-Lytton contest. "The opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels".
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm
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Reminds me of the Bulwer-Lytton contest. "The opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels".
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm
"Never in physical action had I discovered the chilling satisfaction of words. Never in words had I experienced the hot darkness of action. Somewhere there must be a higher principle which reconciles art and action. That principle, it occurred to me, was death." -Yukio Mishima
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Horrible... I'm gonna go read happy things now.
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Most are pretty bad, but funny however, the one ajaxfetish already pointed out:
is pretty awesome when used in the right context, the teacher who submitted that obviously has no love for creativity and probably rates anything a C are blow if it doesn't sound like Dickens or ShakespeareHer date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be burried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."
Yes, Iraq is peaceful. Go to sleep now. - Adrian II
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Some of them are damned imaginitive...
My favourite:
I don't get this one, though:Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36pm traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19pm at a speed of 35 mph.
There shouldn't be a full stop after Dr on a Dr Pepper can, anyway...The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr. Pepper can.
It was not theirs to reason why,
It was not theirs to make reply,
It was theirs but to do or die.
-The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
-Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny
"For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
-Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
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A few of those are actually the mark of a funny writer, and not a complete idiot, as the list would imply. At least I hope those students aren't so intentionally stupid.
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This one isn't so much an analogy as a short story brilliantly compressed into one sentence.Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be burried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."
Who was First Tall Man? Will there be a Third Tall man? What does she do with all these tall men? What's she got against medium sized men, anyway? Was she engaged to one, only to find he was seeing her younger, prettier sister on the side? Or, Oh my god, it was, wasn't it, her BROTHER?
I's got to know.
BTW your Grace, (1) I salute your (100% accurate) knowledge of the abuses of the full stop but (2) why are you not a King any more? has there been a revolution or did you decide Dukes have more fun?
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
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That would make them actually stupid.Originally Posted by Proletariat
Student by day, bacon-eating narwhal by night (specifically midnight)
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