And the winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is…
Dan McKay - a computer analyst at Microsoft’s Great Plains site in Fargo, North Dakota. What did he win exactly? Well he won the annual contest that celebrates the worst writing in the English language - and that my friends is no small feat. You can read more about it on CNN’s site here. Of course, my curiousity extended beyond this article and so I found the actual website for the contest here. You just have to read the list of winners here. Some of the quotes are just plain HILARIOUS!
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.
Mariann Simms, Wetumpka, AL (2003 Winner)
