Best of Worst Writing Award - Post your worst writing here!

Clarkie1

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Fri Jul-29-05 12:40 AM
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Best of Worst Writing Award - Post your worst writing here!

Edited on Fri Jul-29-05 12:40 AM by Clarkie1

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A man who compared a woman's anatomy to a carburetor won an annual contest that celebrates the worst writing in the English language.

Dan McKay, a computer analyst at Microsoft Great Plains in Fargo, North Dakota, bested thousands of entrants from North Pole, Alaska to Manchester, England to triumph Wednesday in San Jose State University's annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

"As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire," he wrote, comparing a woman's breasts to "small knurled caps of the oil dampeners."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/07/28/worst.writing.ap/index.html

O.K. people, now post YOUR worst writing!

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Fri Jul-29-05 12:42 AM
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1. Here are all the writings, and the DU thread about it

http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3742190

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Clarkie1

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Fri Jul-29-05 12:48 AM
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3. Thanks. n/t

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Nevernose

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Fri Jul-29-05 12:42 AM
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2. I once owned a Triumph Spitfire

And the writing seems rather accurate to me. Shit, this could be jounalism as far as I'm concerned.

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Fri Jul-29-05 01:14 AM
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4. There was a big Triumph Rally in Rockford, IL this week

We saw a few old Triumphs (beautiful cars!!) and talked to the owners over in Indiana as we were driving through. They had two AWESOME Triumphs from the 50s (I believe; or the 60s, if they weren't made in the 50s). Both convertibles. Both looked totally uncomfortable for the length of drive they were on. And both VERY well maintained, clean, and in excellent, incredible shape.

Sigh.....someday.... I have the mustang convertible, which is pretty close to the top, but those Triumphs...and a '57 Corvette... and some of the older classic British convertibles... oh, drool drool.

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