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Not A Poet Member Elite
since 1999-11-03
Posts 3885Oklahoma, USA |
Check out these openings [This message has been edited by Not A Poet (11-13-2003 11:06 AM).] |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Winners? Whoa... I was getting worried till I realized they were TRYING to write like that. LOL  from the page link-- "An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory if not the reputation of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), who has just enjoyed his bicentennial. The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. Although best known for The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) and the phrase, "the pen is mightier than the sword," Bulwer-Lytton opened his novel Paul Clifford (1830) with the immortal words that the "Peanuts" beagle Snoopy plagiarized for years, "It was a dark and stormy night." Well...from what I read...they certainly accomplished that. LOL The cheese one scared me.  |
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Toad Member
since 2002-06-16
Posts 161 |
Enjoyed the link but I thought this forum was for "poetry only" /pip/Forum28/HTML/000897.html |
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jbouder Member Elite
since 1999-09-18
Posts 2534Whole Sort Of Genl Mish Mash |
Craig: Perhaps it could be ... a contest to see who can write the worst opening lines to a poem might be interesting. Jim |
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Toad Member
since 2002-06-16
Posts 161 |
Could be... If it is I could pick any of mine at random and win hands down. |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
lol.. Toad..I'd give you even money mine could beat yours in the worst opening line contest... |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Ah heck, it can't be all bad, Pete. I saw Duncan's name in there...  |
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Essorant Member Elite
since 2002-08-10
Posts 4769Regina, Saskatchewan; Canada |
"Fair is foul and foul is fair" |
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River Senior Member
since 2003-09-16
Posts 627my own little world |
you know, i think i posted something in the passions in prose forum that should be entered into this contest, lol, it is sooo stupid, and the poems on that page resemble it, lol. if ya'll wanna peak at my star wars parody, check out /pip/Forum15/HTML/001953.html k? lol, catch ya dudes & dudettes later. Love hurts as bad as it feels good. |
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jbouder Member Elite
since 1999-09-18
Posts 2534Whole Sort Of Genl Mish Mash |
This is a little too fun to resist: *** “Man, this wall is cold,” I thought in puzzlement a moment before I realized that the door to the Taco Bell bathroom had taken a sudden jaunt to the ceiling. I quickly pushed myself off the floor, in spite of the pain in my kidneys, returned to stand before the urinal, which had apparently prevailed in a recent encounter with my right cheek, and succeeded in doing what I failed to do before (and thankfully during) my unexpected “nap” on the restroom floor. “Those 32 oz. bottles of Aquafina should have a warning label,” I thought, “DO NOT DRINK WHILE IN A PROLONGED TRAFFIC JAM.” After adjusting my shirt (I apparently hadn’t COMPLETELY failed during my “nap”) and as I made my way out of the Taco Bell restroom with the decidedly cold floor, I thought for a moment, “Maybe I should buy something.” As if the Fates had it in for me that day, traffic moved at a crawl for the next two hours and I thought through increasing discomfort as my neck craned vanely too give me a glimpse of the next exit, "Perhaps those re-fried beans were not such a good idea." [This message has been edited by jbouder (11-14-2003 11:41 AM).] |
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River Senior Member
since 2003-09-16
Posts 627my own little world |
ROFL!!!! jbouder...that is hilarius. *aplauds*, *grins*, and *winks* - River |
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