Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Stealing from Bill.

My friend Bill Crider always has good stuff on his blog, and sometimes, when I'm feeling lazy, instead of looking for my own material, I simply heist stuff from him. Thanks, Bill!

Here's a good example:

Bill links to a recent article about a college professor recalling some of the sentences his students have subjected him to over the years. Bad writing is always fun. Here's a snippet from the article:
You want more examples? How about these beauties:
• “The person was an innocent by standard, who just happened to be the victim of your friend’s careless responsibility.”
• “Society has moved toward cereal killers.”
• “Romeo and Juliet exchanged their vowels.”
• “Willie Loman put Biff on a petal stool.”
• “Another effect of smoking is it may give you cancer of the thought.”
• “The children of lesbian couples receive as much neutering as those of other couples."
Or, when asked to use the past tense of “fly” in a sentence: “I flought to Chicago.”
You can see the full article here.





2 comments:

Bill Crider said...

You're welcome, and thank goodness you and I would never make a bloonder like those.

Ben Rehder said...

I don't know, sometimes I look back at my old college papers and it's pretty embarrassing.