I Like People Who Can Make Me Laugh
The winning entries in the Bulwer-Lytton Contest sponsored by San Jose State's English Department...are some of the funniest literary passages ever penned.
It's a contest in which the winner has to come up with the worst opening sentence of what is sure to be one of the worst novels ever written.
Here is an example. It won a Dishonorable Mention in the category of Science Fiction.
[c=#7700B2] " Following my successful career as Chief Medical Officer of the Horus 7 on its extended mission to explore the galaxy, I returned to earth-- what follows chronicles the first seven years of the orthodontics practice I opened in Michigan. "[/c]
Philip Davies
Cardiff, Wales
It's a contest in which the winner has to come up with the worst opening sentence of what is sure to be one of the worst novels ever written.
Here is an example. It won a Dishonorable Mention in the category of Science Fiction.
[c=#7700B2] " Following my successful career as Chief Medical Officer of the Horus 7 on its extended mission to explore the galaxy, I returned to earth-- what follows chronicles the first seven years of the orthodontics practice I opened in Michigan. "[/c]
Philip Davies
Cardiff, Wales
70-79, F
