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Thought some of you might enjoy this from the English department of San Jose
State U, sponsors of an annual "bad writing" competition called the
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (bulwer-lytton.com), so named for the author
of "It was a dark and stormy night" of Snoopy fame which some of the SJSU
grad students tracked down some time ago and, taking perverse pleasure in
the terribly tortured language thought they would encourage others to try to
emulate or exceed the original awfulness which, after all, also serves to
teach better writing by demonstrating how bad bad writing can be, much as
Windows can show other programmers what not to do when seeking to create
good code.
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Winner: Science Fiction
Kirk's mind raced as he quickly assessed his situation: the shields were
down, the warp drive and impulse engines were dead, life support was failing
fast, and the Enterprise was plummeting out of control toward the surface of
Epsilon VI and, as Scotty and Spock searched frantically through the manuals
trying to find a way to save them all, Kirk vowed, as he stared at the solid
blue image filling the main view screen, that never again would he allow a
Microsoft operating system to control his ship.
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