# This year's worst sentence **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2010, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761 "2010-06-28T07:54:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/1 "2010-06-28T07:54:36Z")
You heard it here first. The 2010 Bulwer-Lytton grand prize winner is Molly Ringle of Seattle, WA. Her winning entry is: > [@](#): > > **For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss–a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.** ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/2 "2010-06-28T08:08:40Z")
What? I couldn’t hear anything. I lost ten percent of my hearing in a volcanic eruption about three years ago. Man, I gotta take a leak! ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/3 "2010-06-28T08:30:58Z")
Meh, it’s not near as bad as \*\*Jim’s \*\*winning 2007 entry. Now _that_ was a jarring masterpiece of confusion, disjointedness and arrhythmia. This year’s winner is just a slightly overlong sentence with a gross and silly simile. You rule, **Jim**. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/4 "2010-06-28T12:19:08Z")
Agreed. That was weak. **Jim** ’s da man! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/5 "2010-06-28T13:19:47Z")
Surely this list (and dozens like it) has been the content of at least one email you have received in your life: [http://www.funny-haha.co.uk/Joke.asp?J=630](http://www.funny-haha.co.uk/Joke.asp?J=630) ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/6 "2010-06-28T13:56:33Z")
So what was your 2007 entry, Jim? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/7 "2010-06-28T14:04:19Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > So what was your 2007 entry, Jim? [Past winners.](http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/lyttony.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/8 "2010-06-28T14:17:43Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > So what was your 2007 entry, Jim? [QUOTE=Boyo Jim the Best of the Worst] Gerald began–but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them “permanently” meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash–to pee. [/QUOTE] (hence my rather inscrutable post if you didn’t remember his sentence) ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/9 "2010-06-28T14:54:35Z")
Boyo Jim, Me thinks your sentence is still the best ! 🙂 ooops ! I mean worst . 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/10 "2010-06-28T15:22:59Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You heard it here first. The 2010 Bulwer-Lytton grand prize winner is Molly Ringle of Seattle, WA. Her winning entry is: This year’s sentence has a certain derivative, _Family Guy_ ring to it. Nice to see she’s been keeping busy since _Pretty In Pink_, though. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/11 "2010-06-28T16:00:39Z")
You still da man, **Boyo.** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/12 "2010-06-28T16:11:33Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You heard it here first. The 2010 Bulwer-Lytton grand prize winner is Molly Ringle of Seattle, WA. Her winning entry is: > [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > This year’s sentence has a certain derivative, _Family Guy_ ring to it. Nice to see she’s been keeping busy since _Pretty In Pink_, though. Ringwald. Or I’ve been whooshed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/13 "2010-06-28T17:22:23Z")
Seriously, no need for all the ass kssing. I prefer cash, and we can arrange quiet payments thru Pay Pal. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/14 "2010-06-28T17:51:45Z")
Link? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/15 "2010-06-28T18:14:00Z")
There is no link yet. I know who the winner is because I’m one of the judges. The head guy has sent out a press release to AP, but they haven’t run a story yet AFAIK. And because he’s told the press, I felt free to share it here. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/16 "2010-06-28T19:06:03Z")
2007’s winning sentence was a work of art! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/17 "2010-06-29T11:23:29Z")
I was going to leave a link to past ones, but I noticed the new one is up, too. Just Google “2010 Bulwer-Lytton” if you’re interested, so I don’t steal Jim’s thunder. (And don’t fall for Little Lytton). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/18 "2010-06-29T18:27:33Z")
That 2006 winner - _“she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean”_ - should have been disqualified. It verged on clever. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/19 "2010-06-30T16:40:52Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I was going to leave a link to past ones, but I noticed the new one is up, too. Just Google “2010 Bulwer-Lytton” if you’re interested, so I don’t steal Jim’s thunder. (And don’t fall for Little Lytton). All I get is the 2009 winners. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761/20 "2010-06-30T17:03:25Z")
It is out in the mainstream press now. Just do a Google News search for “Bulwer” and you’ll get a bunch of hits. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-worst-sentence/544761.md?page=2)