Link originally from The Register.
There is a contest run by the English department at San Jose State University, that rewards the best "worst" first line of an imaginary novel. It's based on the infamous, "It was a dark and stormy night," line that has been used as the punchline of many a literary allusion. Some history of the contest here and the awful results and the "winner" here
I didn't even know this existed, but it sounds like a lot of fun. I'll have to come up with an idea for next year's contest...
"He jumped up from his chair, like a cricket startled by a dog, and..."
Geez. It's harder than I thought to write really horrific prose, and not just merely awful.
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Dammit! I think I've been plagiarized.
Beckie
"A long time ago in a galaxy exactly like our own, only not because while it was the same, the duplicate people behaved completely the opposite way and all the men, women, children, and especially, babies had goatees."
Almost a contest winner, never a contest. Wait, that doesn't work.
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