{"id":5506,"date":"2008-08-13T11:12:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T17:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2008-08-13T11:12:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T17:12:29","slug":"dorothy-had-reasons-to-be-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/dorothy-had-reasons-to-be-nervous\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy had reasons to be nervous …"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year’s Bulwer-Lytton winners<\/a> have been posted. There are a few that aren’t too bad:<\/p>\n

As she watched the small form swing backwards and forth from the crystal chandelier – hands on hips, sniffing the air and squeaking inaudibly – it suddenly became clear to Madame de Pompomme that she had done the wrong thing asking Jacques to find and bring back her long-lost sister: for, whilst her coterie would doubtless be enchanted for a short while, the novelty of Janine having been raised by bats since the age of two in caves of the North-west Congo would soon wear off in seventeenth-century France.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are certain people in the world who emanate an aura of well being — they radiate sunshine, light up a room, bring out the best in others, and fill your half empty glass to overflowing – yes it was these very people thought Karl, as he sharpened his mirror-finished guthook knife, who were top of his list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But most are laboriously dull, spliced together with too many semicolons and dashes.<\/p>\n

The Lyttle Lytton results for 2008<\/a> were also disappointing, with nothing the caliber of “In 3010, the potatoes triumphed.”<\/p>\n

If you want a laugh, I recommend watching the Stafford County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors in action<\/a>. ((Please note that what is illustrated in the video is not “fuzzy math<\/a>,” but stupidity.)) (Via the Maximum Leader<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year’s Bulwer-Lytton winners have been posted. There are a few that aren’t too bad: As she watched the small form swing backwards and forth from the crystal chandelier – hands on hips, sniffing the air and squeaking inaudibly – it suddenly became clear to Madame de Pompomme that she had done the wrong thing … Continue reading “Dorothy had reasons to be nervous …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[106,665],"class_list":["post-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-and-horror","tag-bulwer-lytton","tag-humor-and-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1qO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}