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  • N.D. Man Wins Annual Bad-Writing Contest

    07/28/2005 12:12:25 PM PDT · by Mike Bates · 62 replies · 1,335+ views
    Yahoo News/AP ^ | 7/28/2005 | Garance Burke
    A man who compared a woman's anatomy to a carburetor won an annual contest that celebrates the worst writing in the English language. Dan McKay, a computer analyst at Microsoft Great Plains in Fargo, N.D., bested thousands of entrants from North Pole, Alaska to Manchester, England to triumph Wednesday in San Jose State University's annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. "As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire," he wrote, comparing a woman's breasts to "small knurled caps of the oil dampeners." The competition highlights literary achievements of the most dubious...