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Subject:Re: Friday NVC: Bad writing: carbs & bosoms
From:Tom Sinclair
Date:Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:48:46 -0700

That's bad writing?  I thought it sounded like a book
I'd like to read. Of course it can't compare to: "Her
caboose was like  the rear view of a fully loaded
Syncro Westy with dual Gary Lee tire carriers sporting
31's..." but still pretty hot. Right? Anyone?

Product of the Utah public school system and waaaay
too many Vanagon email lists.
Tom

--- Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> In Canada's Globe & Mail newspaper today, there were
> several excerpts from "this year's annual San
> Jose State University contest for the worst opening
> sentence to the worst possible novel."
>
> This excerpt has some connection to carb'ed Vanagons
> & busses.  Enjoy:
>
> "The grand prize winner, Dan McKay of Fargo, N.D.,
> wrote about female anatomy and classic cars,
> bringing
> them together in well, a unique way.
>
> "As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of
> the
> dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph
> Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed,
> perched prominently on top of the intake manifold,
> aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps
> of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and
> adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop
> manual.""
>
> The full article can be found at:
>
>
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050728.wbulwar0728/BNStory/Entertainment/
>
> If you take offence to this, sorry, and please
> p-mail me about it.  M
>
>
>
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