The annual celebration of bad writing announces the winner and runners-up for 2010! Contestants don't have to write an entire book; they only need to submit the opening line. I *so* want to do a campus version, all about about "celebrating" each year's worst examples of published academic-speak (i.e., Nerdish). Just imagine!
I almost quoted the winner on Facebook:
ReplyDelete"For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss--a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil."
Molly Ringle
Seattle, WA
But then I thought, no, I don't want all my friends to forever associate me w/ thirsty gerbils.
Hahaha! It's basically the same reason I ended up deciding not to quote the winner in the post. This blog has standards. OK, admittedly, low ones, but still standards! ;-)
ReplyDelete