>From long ago, the last line of a report on The Old Man and the Sea....
"The old man dreamed of the loins on the beaches of Africa."
JP
> It actually takes real talent to write this badly on purpose. Bulwer
Lytton
> did it naturally - the BW Awards home site has the entire first chapter of
> his 'best' book - truly terrifying prose.
> As a high school teacher, I also get some beauts, of course -
> "We shouldn't test cosmetics on animals - after all, rabbits are people
too!"
> "The UN should intervene in Kosovo to avoid unnecessary macaques"
> (spellchecker failure - he meant massacres but I still think of the
Balkans
> overrun with small apes).
> Then there was the one who claimed that the career of Berenice Abbott
> lasted from the 1870's to the 1980's - quite remarkable!
> AndrewF
>
>
> >This is just way too funny! The "Running of the Pomeranians in
> >Liechtenstein"? The lady had to have been on some really bad stuff.
This
> >makes me appreciate my senior high composition students, and I've always
> >respected them. They often wrote real clunkers. An example: "In this
new,
> >futuristic society, women had the primary responsibility for having
babies."
> >But their errors were honest; they didn't have the vocabulary or grasp of
> >syntax to write *this* badly. And most of them had better taste.
> >Thanks for improving my morning, Garth.
> >JP
>
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