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Offline bijou

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Gotcha of the Day
« on: November 18, 2009, 02:18:09 PM »
Hat tip to poster LibTired at Hotair.com

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Sentence, actual
by KevClark64
11/18/2009, 1:09 PM #
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Under "Sentence, actual" how about this beauty:
"The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn't work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle."
Wow! That wouldn't make it through freshman English class, and I mean high school, not college. What's the sentence about anyway? The apartment? The gas station? The Doberman? How about sticking with one complete thought before going on to three more? Just goes to show that some people should stick with politics and give up any presumptions of being a writer.
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Easy Translation
by LeRoy_Was_Here
11/18/2009, 1:23 PM #
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The black Doberman belonged to Sarah, because she didn't want no stinkin' liberal visitors, and that's why they made sure the buzzer downstairs didn't work, too, and, oh, the Doberman was always carrying around an empty beer bottle, because Sarah and Todd had trained it to get rid of all their beer bottles after they were done with drinkin' 'em, on account of they didn't want their place lookin' like a buncha white trash lived there!
See how easy that was?
And the floors were all slanting towards the right, of course.
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HooHoo!
by reJoinder
11/18/2009, 1:45 PM #
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That's great, all it needed was the lead-in "It was a dark and stormy night." Great stuff!
I remember well the breathless, run-on sentences of my High School days...:)
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The Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Contest
by LeRoy_Was_Here
11/18/2009, 1:46 PM #
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That sentence by Sarah Palin could be entered into the annual Bulwer-Lytton bad writing contest.
It could have a chance at winning a honorable mention, at any rate.
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Re: Sentence, actual
by KevClark64
11/18/2009, 1:50 PM #
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I probably should have mentioned that the sentence quoted above was not written by Sarah Palin. It's taken from the first paragraph of Dreams from My Father, written by Barack Obama.
http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/3441452.aspx
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Re: Gotcha of the Day
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2009, 04:15:30 PM »
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!


PWND!!!!
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Re: Gotcha of the Day
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2009, 04:43:32 PM »
Is that the best Bill Ayers can do?.....sheeesh.....and he writes instructional manuals for the schools?
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Re: Gotcha of the Day
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2009, 05:10:39 PM »
I have to wonder why Progressives seem to fail at critical thinking. I find it hilarious that they are all too willing to attribute the statement to Sarah Palin and it originally belonged to Obama. The writing is atrocious, too. Did these people fail their way up in college?? How did they ever graduate??
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Re: Gotcha of the Day
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2009, 05:13:56 PM »
Priceless!

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Re: Gotcha of the Day
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2009, 05:23:49 PM »



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Re: Gotcha of the Day
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2009, 01:15:39 AM »
It also occurs to me that not enough of Slate's lefty readers have read Obama's book, if that's the opening paragraph then it shows they haven't even browsed  it in a book store
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Re: Gotcha of the Day
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2009, 06:57:40 AM »
 :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:  I can smell the heat from that handprinted face from here!
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Re: Gotcha of the Day
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2009, 04:35:24 PM »
I didn't buy Palin's book either.   But I just looked at it on Amazon (no copy paste available for some reason)  If someone could post a representative paragraph for comparison, it would be instructive.

And twice as embarrassing for the 0bama people.
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Re: Gotcha of the Day
« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2009, 04:43:13 PM »
Quote from: Baruch Menachem on November 19, 2009, 04:35:24 PM
I didn't buy Palin's book either.   But I just looked at it on Amazon (no copy paste available for some reason)  If someone could post a representative paragraph for comparison, it would be instructive.

And twice as embarrassing for the 0bama people.

I don't wanna get nailed for copyright infringement, so I'll post a link where you can read the first pages of Palin's book at Amazon. Use the arrows to flip the pages.

http://www.amazon.com/Going-Rogue-American-Sarah-Palin/dp/0061939897/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258670405&sr=1-1#reader_0061939897

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Re: Gotcha of the Day
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2009, 06:21:40 AM »
Copied this outta the review/comment section

But a narcissistic, self-absorbed Mean Girl (or Boy) is not what this country needs in its President. When Palin blithely accepted the offer to run as vice president, she was unfazed by the prospect of being a heartbeat away from the White House, with a running mate in his seventies who's survived four bouts of cancer that we know of. As of today, there are at least three versions of the story of how she accepted the offer: what Palin told Oprah Winfrey, what she told Sean Hannity, and what she says in the book. Which is it? Did she ask the kids? Did she discuss it with Todd. Did she "not blink"? Or do we care, so long as it doesn't happen again?

Doesn't seem to bother Obama or the commenter.

...and for racist sensetive DUmmies that may have missed it, note the term "BOY".
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