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I suspect these are actually entries from the Bullwer-Lytton [SP?] contest.

1 posted on 02/05/2006 10:40:09 AM PST by Slings and Arrows

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Ping!

2 posted on 02/05/2006 10:42:54 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Ooga Chakka, Hooga Hooga, Ooga Chakka, Hooga Hooga" --D. Hasselhoff)

To: Slings and Arrows

Where are the analogy police when you need them? I remember - torturing the pointy haired guy from Dilbert....

4 posted on 02/05/2006 10:50:43 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

To: Slings and Arrows

my boys got a chuckle out of a few of these :)

5 posted on 02/05/2006 11:09:00 AM PST by leda (Dream a better dream and then make it happen!)

To: Slings and Arrows

Yes, these are Bullwer-Lytton entries from the annual bad-writing contest.

Please put me on your not-a-ping list.

6 posted on 02/05/2006 11:16:25 AM PST by Congressman Billybob (Hillary! delendum est.)

To: Slings and Arrows; All

A question for FReepers out there, any one care to explain this analogy, it goes right over my head:

"Her eyebrows look like flecks of sunlight. Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground."

~ House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
(page 131 if you happen to have the book)

It sounds oddly familiar (which isn't strange for the story), but I can't quite grasp it's meaning or intent. Can any one help?

16 posted on 02/05/2006 2:02:30 PM PST by BostonianRightist ("Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice." ~ Senator Goldwater)

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