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-Short Attention Span Theater-
"It was a dark and stormy night..."
2004-12-24
And here it is, the 2004 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest results are in. Go ye forth and feast upon the badness. See English slaughtered, defiled, degraded, besotted, and berotted. It will probably remind you of something, many somethings, in fact, foisted upon innocent eyes every day in an un-named interactive newspaper thingy... but don't say, er, type it! Still your hand. Be snide in knowing that your posts don't suck, most of the time. Be gracious and forgiving to those of lesser intellect and insight. Be cool. Even whilst whacking a troll, add an "LOL" or two to soften the blows. Be gentle telling Gentle she's a total 'tard. Be above the fray. If you can't manage that, then be mega-brutal and dispatch them quickly with a smackdown so righteous it will sear their eyes from their sockets. Be a verbose buffoon, but a classy one. Be filled with the spirit of Edward George Bulwer-Lytton... you will never be the same - because all your friends will make fun of you. But then you probably deserve it for showing them what you wrote.

Enjoy...
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#3  blowed up the link. edu site overwhelmed by the power of RantBurg.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-12-24 7:43:21 PM  

#2  The thing is, I always think the winners are trying too hard, and the best writing comes from the runners up, as here:

"Call me Ishmael," Joanna finally began, a scant fourteen hours before her book report was due, and she sympathized with him and reflected on the likeness of the vast paper tome in front of her to the cetacean antagonist immortalized within, or at least she would have if she'd had any idea what the book was about.
Posted by: Angie Schultz   2004-12-24 11:55:03 AM  

#1  Love the annual B-L submittals!
Posted by: Frank G   2004-12-24 9:55:02 AM  

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