My favorite:
Yay you, indeed. Which one is yours?
This is the Louisiana Secretary of State. http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/
In this post, he identifies himself as “Next to Best of the Worst in the Adventure Category”, and the Calgary location info is consistent.
Congratulations to Spoons and to the other SDMB honoree (or is that dishonoree?), whose identity I suspect but won’t divulge in case said poster wishes to remain anonymous.
Cool. I just sent him an email, as a former winner, asking if he’s that guy, and congratulating him for having the guts, as a public official, for striving to be bad.
I also was insprired to suggest to Scott Rice to have a Bulwer-fest, inviting all former winners and runners up to a dinner/party. Hell, entrants, too, why not? I will report on his reply.
I’ll start a thread when I finish this next (last, one hopes) bout of editing. I don’t want to hijack this one.
And congratulations again Spoons! Your entry is excellent.
Scott Rice replied within 10 minutes of my sending him the idea that the dinner sounds like a good idea. He is going to “float it around” to some people and see what others think.
That was my second-favorite! Really!
No, really!
I posted on someone’s LiveJournal that I thought it was a great entry. 
Okay, now that I’ve gotten the B-L site to remove the town from my location, I’ll confess: twickster’s favorite sentence is mine 
Interesting that the winner and runner up in the same category are both Dopers.
You make me proud!
No shit? That is too cool! (I guess that’s why it reminded me of a Doper initiation gone horribly awry … 
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Some really sad news. For some reason, AP hasn’t carried the Bulwer story this year. It is their stories which generate much of the attention from other media – tie ins to local winners, etc. There were hundreds of newspapers which reprinted the AP stories almost verbatim last year.
Maybe Scott Rice can figure out how to kick them into action.
Congratulations, elfkin477! And I’ll agree with Boyo Jim that it’s interesting that the two Dopers took one category–that must mean something somehow, but I’m unsure what. Anyway, well done!
Wow, something about that one made me think, “Doper for sure.”
Congrats all around.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
“It was a dark and stormy night, which lent itself well to the consumption of shooters and beer in the company of scantily-clad young ladies; and after too many B-52s chased by pitchers of lukewarm Bud (though he could have sworn the bartender had mixed in a pitcher of Miller at some point), it took all the effort that the rookie night editor for the Associated Press could muster to shut off all communication with the outside world so he could spend the rest of the night and likely the next few days at his desk, sleeping off the effects of an evening spent in one of his city’s more questionable establishments.”
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Think that might work?
Congrats to the winning Dopers. I keep meaning to get off my ass and submit to this thing. Alas…
And while it wasn’t my favorite overall entry, this is my favorite phrase from the list: “…like a slug in a sandpaper trenchcoat.”
Part of a description of a tongue, from the Purple Prose winner. Love it!
Interesting. Last year, the NY Times was about the only major paper that DIDN’T carry the AP story. I figured they were just too snooty. I guess I was wrong – or maybe they’ve been desnooted recently.
CNN has it, too.