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It was a darkly turgid phrase...

PostPosted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:47 pm
by cid
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest seeks to contaminate respectable literature once again.

Here are the 2013 'winners' (so to speak)

(We have some talented scribes on board this forum...anyone wanna take a crack at an entry for 2014?)

Incidentally -- did you know that Edward Bulwer-Lytton also wrote the much more remembered line "The pen is mightier than the sword.".Huh? Didja?

Re: It was a darkly turgid phrase...

PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 1:47 am
by SciFiFisher
cid wrote:The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest seeks to contaminate respectable literature once again.

Here are the 2013 'winners' (so to speak)

(We have some talented scribes on board this forum...anyone wanna take a crack at an entry for 2014?)

Incidentally -- did you know that Edward Bulwer-Lytton also wrote the much more remembered line "The pen is mightier than the sword.".Huh? Didja?



Yes, but "I shall smite thee with my keyboard" has a much more modern ring to it. ;)

Re: It was a darkly turgid phrase...

PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 5:35 am
by brite
SciFiFisher wrote:

Yes, but "I shall smite thee with my keyboard" has a much more modern ring to it. ;)

You shouldn't be allowed to post until I get home from school....