Balls and Walnuts
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‘Twas a dark and stormy night.
The 2006 Bulwer-Lytton Contest winners have been announced. Here’s the runner-up for the Romance category:
Sex with Rachel after she turned fifty was like driving the last-place team on the last day of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race, the point no longer the ride but the finish, the difficulty not the speed but keeping all the parts moving in the right direction, not to mention all that irritating barking.
Dan Winters
Los Altos Hills, CA
You want to read the first place winner? You’ll just have to go see for yourself!
Hat tip to Bill in Portland Maine, at Daily Kos.
D.
I guess I’d better examine my own writing style.
The B-L contest has evolved. Used to be all about laughably bad writing, but nowadays, the funny entries tend to win out over the more cringe-worthy entries. It’s all about the humor these days.