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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kitskid who wrote (3688)	2/5/2001 1:55:50 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

These are the 10 winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton contest, wherein one writes only the first line of a novel. It is held annually by the English Department at San Jose University. "As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the sound chamber he would never hear the end of it." "Just beyond the Narrows, the river widens." "With a curvaceous figure that Venus would have envied, a tanned, unblemished oval face framed with lustrous thick brown hair, deep azure-blue eyes fringed with long black lashes, perfect teeth that vied for competition, and a small straight nose, Marilee had a beauty that defied description." "Andre, a simple peasant, had only one thing on his mind as he crept along the east wall: "Andre creep... Andre creep... Andre creep..." "Although Sarah had an abnormal fear of mice, it did not keep her from eeking out a living at a local pet store." "Stanley looked quite bored and somewhat detached, but then penguins often do." "Like an overripe beefsteak tomato rimmed with cottage cheese, the corpulent remains of Santa Claus lay dead on a hotel floor." "Mike Hardware was the kind of private eye who didn't know the meaning of the word 'fear,' a man who could laugh in the face of danger and spit in the eye of death -- in short, a moron with suicidal tendencies." AND THE WINNER IS... "The sun oozed over the horizon, shoved aside darkness, crept along the greensward, and with sickly fingers, pushed through the castle window, revealing the pillaged princess, hand at throat, crown asunder, gaping in frenzied horror at the sated, sodden amphibian lying beside her, disbelieving the magnitude of the frog's deception, screaming madly, 'You lied!'"

To: Kitskid who wrote (3688)	2/22/2001 12:15:19 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

<<An Apple Computer advertisement exhorts, "Think different" when it means "differently." >> Just for the fun of it, I feel like arguing that maybe the ad meant "different." Meant the adjective, not the adverb. As in, the instructions weren't recommending a manner of thinking, which would require an adverb, but were suggesting the thinker imagine a particular outstanding quality (they're in some way novel) of the computers being advertised. ("Think big," "Think glamorous," "Think 24 karat," "Think boring and that's all you need to know about that blind date," "Think corrupt these days, and of whom do you think?") It could be argued that those adjectives could use some quotation marks, I guess.