# The 2021 Bulwer-Lytton Winners are up!

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**Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2021-bulwer-lytton-winners-are-up/949083/7 "2021-08-18T12:43:35Z")

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> [@Princhester](#):
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> I knew there was a Doper who had done well in it previously but I couldn’t think who it was.
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> Which year was that?

@Boyo_Jim won in, I think, 2007, and consequently had the custom title “Best of the Worst.”

Then apparently a couple of unidentified Dopers won in 2008:

> [@2008 Bulwer-Lytton Award winners announced -- at least 2 Dopers are winners!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2008-bulwer-lytton-award-winners-announced-at-least-2-dopers-are-winners/459082/1):
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> [Winning sentences here.](http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/scott.rice/blfc2008.htm) I know at least two winners on this page are Dopers. Not the Grand Prize winner, to the best of my knowledge, but I can’t rule that out either. Whoo hoo! I don’t feel comfortable IDing them because real-life names are on the contest website. So, if you entered, check and see if you won. My reign as Best of the Worst is over.

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