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	Name:	MythBuster -
	Subject:	Some Laughs or Sighs One
	Date:	9/6/2007 3:13:06 PM

I'll bet you hated to see me respond! :-)

Here's my take: those aren't actually examples turned in by English teachers, but are entries from the annual "Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest." In fact, I recognize a couple of them from a book about the Bulwer-Lytton contest. (link below)

This contest encourages people to write the WORST opening line imaginable. It was named after Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, the guy who opened a novel with "It was a dark and stormy night," which was probably made famous by Snoopy. (The entire opening sentence: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

All of this is not meant to put down your post; I find the Bulwer-Lytton contest stuff hilarious, and I'm glad you posted this. I'm just giving credit where credit is due. (And can you believe that these authors actually want credit for writing this dreck? Well, at least they wrote bad on purpose; not everybody who can't write can say that!)

URL: Bulwer-Lytton

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