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Aug. 2nd, 2005 06:44 am
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The Bulwer-Lytton Contest 2005 results are in. You'll never think of carburetors in quite the same way.

Date: 2005-08-02 10:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spwebdesign.livejournal.com
My favorites were …

Wet leaves stuck to the spinning wagon wheels like feathers to a freshly tarred heretic, reminding those who watched them of the endless movement of the leafy earth-or so they would have, if only those fifteenth-century onlookers had believed that the earth actually rotated, which they didn't, which is why it was heretical to say that it did-and which is the reason why the wagon held a freshly tarred heretic in the first place.

… and …

The double agent looked up from his lunch of Mahi-Mahi and couscous and realized that he must escape from Walla Walla to Bora Bora to come face-to-face with his arch enemy by taking out his 30-30 and shooting off his nemesis' ear-to-ear grin so he could wave bye-bye to this duplicitous life, but the chances of him pulling this off were only so-so, much less than 50-50.

Thanks for posting the link! :)

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