worst writing contest winner! - Democratic Underground

RememberJohn

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Thu Jul-17-03 11:30 PM
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worst writing contest winner!

"They had but one last remaining night together, so they embraced each other as tightly as that two-flavor entwined string cheese that is orange and yellowish-white, the orange probably being a bland Cheddar and the white ... Mozzarella, although it could possibly be Provolone or just plain American, as it really doesn't taste distinctly dissimilar from the orange, yet they would have you believe it does by coloring it differently"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030717/ap_on_fe_st/worst_writing_1

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northofdenali

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Thu Jul-17-03 11:40 PM
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1. It was a dark and stormy night........................

ROFL, these are BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDD!!!

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RememberJohn

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Thu Jul-17-03 11:43 PM
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2. Well, actually, it takes talent to write bad...

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Phoenixtongueof fire

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Fri Jul-18-03 12:27 AM
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3. I have had a opening line running through my head for years........

I can't remember where I read it. I think it may have been an entry in a Edward Bulwer-Lynton bad writing contest.
"It was midnight on the ocean, not a streetcar was in sight."
Does it ring a bell with anyone?

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DMcCabe

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Fri Jul-18-03 12:29 AM
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4. sad

so sad!

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NJCher

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Fri Jul-18-03 03:35 AM
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5. I didn't like this year's winner

The writer tried too hard.

As a teacher of writing, I know truly bad writing. This is somebody who is trying to write badly. Really bad writing doesn't have to try very hard.

Cher

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bleedingheart

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Fri Jul-18-03 07:42 AM
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7. I think your right... and the people who write badly normally

don't know they do.

I have a coworker who writes horribly. Her sentences are confusing and technically they aren't even sentences they are fragments.

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OurMorale

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Fri Jul-18-03 03:56 AM
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6. I think the unintentionally bad is better

such as "Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a giant Clipper."

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