Thursday, August 28, 2008

How bad can you get?

On the subject of 'so bad, it's great', have you seen the results of the 26th Bulwer-Lytton contest for ghastly first liners?

You think it's easy to be this bad?

8 comments:

Unknown said...

I love them - all equally groan inducing, especially the one with 'corpuscular' in it. That's not an easy word to work into any sentence!

Debi said...

This is your challenge then, Babs. Dare you to include it in a poem.

Anonymous said...

London, London,
'lympians muscular.
London,London.
Bloody corpuscular.

Debi said...

Leslie - you are a genius! We bow down to you ...

Anonymous said...

I tried to keep with the theme, "How bad can you get?"

Debi said...

Yes, but there's bad, awful and then there's bleedin' amazin' and that's you, m'dear.

Anonymous said...

Is 'corpusculently' a word?
'Corpusculous'?
Ew, that doesn't even sound healthy.

Hey, if you liked that last one, here's another...

Stratford, Stratford
on The Thames.
Stratford, Stratford
'Lympic Gemz.

Debi said...

That one's a splurt coffee at the screen gem!