On the subject of 'so bad, it's great', have you seen the results of the 26th Bulwer-Lytton contest for ghastly first liners?
You think it's easy to be this bad?
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8 comments:
I love them - all equally groan inducing, especially the one with 'corpuscular' in it. That's not an easy word to work into any sentence!
This is your challenge then, Babs. Dare you to include it in a poem.
London, London,
'lympians muscular.
London,London.
Bloody corpuscular.
Leslie - you are a genius! We bow down to you ...
I tried to keep with the theme, "How bad can you get?"
Yes, but there's bad, awful and then there's bleedin' amazin' and that's you, m'dear.
Is 'corpusculently' a word?
'Corpusculous'?
Ew, that doesn't even sound healthy.
Hey, if you liked that last one, here's another...
Stratford, Stratford
on The Thames.
Stratford, Stratford
'Lympic Gemz.
That one's a splurt coffee at the screen gem!
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