This is genius

Eric W.H. Taft · 14 Aug 2006

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Gerald began - but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten per cent 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.

Chris · **Joined:** 11 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 21258

I wish I wrote that.

Monk · 19 Jun 2006

I love that sentence.

JohnnyJ · 28 Dec 2006

But Scott Rice says its a "syntactic atrocity."
Perhaps he's never had to pee in the middle of a volcanic eruption in which he died moments after becoming a deaf man.

Chris · **Joined:** 11 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 21258

JohnnyJ wrote:

But Scott Rice says its a "syntactic atrocity."
Perhaps he's never had to pee in the middle of a volcanic eruption in which he died moments after becoming a deaf man.

Well that still doesn't give him the right to trash such greatness.

That meddlin kid · 26 Mar 2007

I remember they used to publish paperback collections of Bulwer-Lytton Award entries. Poor Bulwer-Lytton--this is one of the main things he'll be remembered for!

Pope Krysak · 11 Dec 2006

Eric W.H. Taft wrote:

From this article:

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Gerald began - but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten per cent 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.

I - thinking about having a snack while typing these words at my computer, television on in the background - am stunned.

This is genius

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