Comments on: We can be proud of our bad writing

By: kurtis

kurtis — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:55:08 +0000

That contest isn’t really about bad writing, it’s about good writing within a really specialized genre.

By: Bixby

Bixby — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:35:40 +0000

I thought you read Gawker.

Oh no you di'n't!

By: DouglasG

DouglasG — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:52:12 +0000

For those interested, the winning entries can be found here. Good stuff!

By: aliecat

aliecat — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:45:29 +0000

Ang, touche! I’ve been skimming a lot lately, though. I think the gawker wad is spent for the time being.

By: Ang

Ang — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:41:59 +0000

That has got to be the longest sentence in the english language.

I thought you read Gawker.

By: christin

christin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:41:26 +0000

I've been having fun with this all day!

Here's mine:

Tuscan Jake thought he had seen it all up until the point that hot and steamy August afternoon when he opened the door to apartment 3F on the Upper West Side when a young Jewess decided it would be a million dollar idea to lop off her husbands head with a rotto rooter and then hang herself with some chicken wire the kind used to restrain fighting birds in cock fights behind the Korean grocer down on the Bowry&

By: aliecat

aliecat — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:40:39 +0000

That has got to be the longest sentence in the english language.

By: msparber

msparber — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:38:22 +0000

Here's what he wrote:

"The hardened detective glanced at his rookie partner and mused that who ever had coined the term 'white as a sheet' had never envisioned a bed accessorized with a set of Hazelnut, 500-count Egyptian cotton linens from Ralph Lauren complimented by matching shams and a duvet cover nor the dismembered body of its current occupant."

Which is pretty excellent.