The most ridiculous sentence from your novel so far!

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The most ridiculous sentence from your novel so far!

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Nov 4, 2009 - 17 18

I was writing with Write or Die (http://writeordie.drwicked.com/), and I don't know how on earth this sentence came about through a discussion about cleanliness of dorm showers, but here it is:

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"Yeah, the shower stall sparkled like a vampire from a Stephenie Meyers book," Sarah said.

I stopped for a few seconds, until Write or Die started yelling at me to write some more, and then I burst out laughing as I went on. Has anyone else had any sentences that just came out during the writing process, and made you giggle? :D
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Nov 4, 2009 - 18 04

"A huge oversized talking hammer did not like my non-talking hammer, and I tried to reason with it."
That made me laugh when that just showed up and my next ones made it even better!

I know this is for most ridiculous sentence but this paragraph is ridiculous.

"Yeah, reminds me of my favorite death. A huge oversized talking hammer did not like my non-talking hammer, and I tried to reason with it. But it did not like that either and killed me by smashing my head in. Have you ever tried to get up from having your head smashed in? It is no fun and it hurts for a bit." Says Ulric

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2009:The Powerful Six and The Tower of Death Doom and Stuff (I have no idea the name to me just like story did)

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"Yeah, the shower stall sparkled like a vampire from a Stephenie Meyers book," Sarah said.

I can see those twinkling vampires now!

As for my sentence:

Quote:
Clearly Velainie had to refine her gesture, and thus practiced the hand-stabbing motion every morning for five minutes, sometimes while holding a bar of soap in the other hand and pretending it was a cell phone.

which comes from this paragraph:

Sometimes Velainie tried to repeat some gestures she had seen her mother preform, like the short upthrust of the hand which indicated her frustration and/or desire to stab the air in lieu of the object of her frustration. Velainie understood it was not a possibility to stab a deadline or a meeting, but the possibility or impossibility never had an effect on her mother's feelings. Velainie finished reading the M section three months ago, and had been disappointed with it. She left the library at the appointed time, got in her mother's car waiting in the parking lot, and then stabbed the air with her hands to convey her frustration with the M section, and the letter M itself. Her mother used her usual expression for these displays of communication, one that indicated both annoyance and a lack of understanding, and drove off without a word. Clearly Velainie had to refine her gesture, and thus practiced the hand-stabbing motion every morning for five minutes, sometimes while holding a bar of soap in the other hand and pretending it was a cell phone.

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justspeed

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Nov 4, 2009 - 21 18

In a conversation between my MC and her doctor...

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“I’m like a fucking guinea pig to you people! You can’t just keep testing drugs on me hoping I’ll become lifeless and retarded!”

“Come now, Leigh. No one is going to be lifeless and retarded.”

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KcyaaDraccis2012

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Nov 4, 2009 - 22 23

This is a conversation between two ex-lovers, Vegas and Will, leaving an airport.:

"Follow me.”

“With relish.”

“I am not a hot-dog.”

“How about with Ketchup?”

“Do I look like a hamburger?”

“More like a flank steak.”

“Keep it up and you're stuck in the pool house, ookami-chan.”

“Is that related to the dog house?”

Really, the conversation is rather out of character for both of them, but together they've always been playful like this...sort of. ^^;

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Filling an empty life with a joy and hope something accomplished, just to hide from the inner nightmares.

Bovver

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Nov 4, 2009 - 23 39

When I write this line, all I could think about was CHEESE!!!!!!!

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“I’m saying,” said Kiptyn. “That you are the Daeva with the clues to the stone. Farrah, you hold the key to the end of the world as we know it.”

....just awful.

On the other hand, this one is also ridiculous but I have a special place for it in my heart:

Quote:
“You mean Adam and Eve were genocide survivors?” asked Farrah, awestruck.

EragonSaphiraRider

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Nov 5, 2009 - 01 14

A part of the end of my prologue. Kinda sad but kinda funny... Takes part after a werewolf and demon bite Ashleigh and Angeline

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“Is it alright if I hang around a little bit? You don’t want those creatures coming back to molest you, do you?”
“Certainly not,” I replied.
“We do though,” Ashleigh muttered. That caused both Jennifer and the vampyre to snigger.
“Only you were just bitten by them, silly girls,” the vampyre said.
“There’s only one problem with this happening, guys,” Jennifer said, a little unhappily.
“Yeah? Like what?”
“Our friendship might have to cease to exist.”

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-A griffon in a vampyre school??? what the hell??-

ashley.morgan

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Nov 5, 2009 - 01 59

It's a short collection of sentences, but by and large they're the most ridiculous thus far:

“My father informed me that our shore house has fallen into disrepair.”
“That sucks,” Hazel replied curtly. “What’s he gonna do about it? Blow it up?”
“No.”
“Light it on fire?”
“…not necessarily…”
The brunette groaned. “Well, what the fuck? Why are you calling me about your dang house if we’re not going to destroy it?”

:-] Eh, nothing too special. Taken out of context, it's kinda ridiculous, but it actually makes sense within the scene... XD

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Nov 5, 2009 - 02 16

I love the vampire shower stall! Ingenious - its a keeper ;-)

My random sentence...

"He was trudging in the forest, hoping tree would fall on him, and crush him to death instantly (not slowly - wishing for an agonizingly slow death was even beyond him) when he was attacked by a hippocrocopig"

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Main Character plot twists:
- fallen through thin ice
- attacked by a wolf
- best friend poisoned
- fallen in love, been betrayed by her
- rescued people from a fire and then had the burning building collapse on him

This guy has some bad luck!

Tahjir

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Nov 5, 2009 - 03 21

Quote:
"You... killed... a fucking werewolf with a... silver butter knife."

Erik grunted. "Grenades didn't work."

Pretty much exactly as it seems. Except the werewolf is a nazi, too.

Yeah, I'm aiming for some pretty high brow literature, here.

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Nov 5, 2009 - 05 44

"You look like an angel," Cannen said. "In pyjamas."

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Nov 5, 2009 - 06 19

Wow. My novel is so serious that in its 38000 words (note: not my word count, I'm doing a revision) so far, I can only identify one vaguely ridiculous line.

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It took all of the Chairman's resolve not to jam the barrel in the bird's face and yell at him to start telling him useful things or so help him he would pull the trigger.

And reading through the whole thing again, I just realised that I have no one-liners whatsoever.

What is wrong with me!?

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Nov 5, 2009 - 07 13

So I just wrote this sentence, and it's not so much ridiculous as ridiculously long:

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Mr. Harker nodded to them, warned them that he was only letting them off because it was the first class of the year but not to be late again or there would be consequences, and told them to sit down and be quiet, as there was to be no gossiping in his classroom.

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ZigZag

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Nov 5, 2009 - 08 30

"I'm a male ballerina living in Texas. Of course I have no friends."

It just strikes me asreally funny for some reason.

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Nov 5, 2009 - 12 16

"My pulse quickened and I felt my novel begin to dissipate into the depths of nothingness because my author decided on a whim to have a gratuitous sex scene with my undead fiance before going to storm the Covenant manor with her and my nemesis."

I felt this was really rather brilliant myself. Silly. But brilliant.

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2007: They Followed a Star (to Betelgeuse) Failed/Still Working
2008: The Revenge of Madam Garlic and the Ladies of Herb Lore Incorporated- failed
2009: The Secret of the Stillroom Book -gonna win!

A shot rang out! As shots are wont to do.

hirere

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Nov 5, 2009 - 13 25

My MC's thoughts on having to call an old woman Granny Mina.

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None are very appealing but for fear of her walking stick and her squeaky little, fur missing rag dog that has no teeth but still could scare the hair off any cat I call her Granny Mina.

Something between my MC and her mother.

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“Fine but if I wake up dead tomorrow it’s your fault,” I say over my shoulder which my mother laughs at.

“Don’t be dramatic, if you die you wont wake up,” my mother says....

They aren't that out there but about some of the most ridiculous in what I've got at the moment.

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Nov 5, 2009 - 16 07

Heh. Two separate stories, connected by one RIDICULOUS line.

Story One:
"No luck?" Nate asked. Tay huffed and threw herself into the booth.

"About as much luck as a hooker with leprosy."

And the reference in Story Two:
"You haven't heard the bit about the leprous hookers yet," Anna said with a wicked grin.

I don't even know where that CAME from...

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Nov 6, 2009 - 03 45

Well I have one or two. Here they are in no particular order:

She found it rather peculiar, as people generally did not keep sun-warmed cola anywhere upon their themselves, and she certainly did not. Besides, she hated cola, she was more of a lemonade person.

Red could feel her mind and memories starting to slip away (thankfully starting with the ones she was not too fond of, including when she was in Grade Four and Jimmy Macinby pulled her skirt down in front of the whole class. It would not have been that bad, but it was on the day she had neglected to wear knickers.)

Arnett was, other than The Master, whose age really was not known, the eldest member of the council. She was also a notorious man eater. She had been through more men than most cared to remember and currently and secretly (at least she thought so anyway, it had become common knowledge amongst most of the council members) had ambitions towards The Master. She saw him as her ultimate goal, but so far, despite trying every trick in her book (small gifts, polite conversation, seduction, low cut blouses, rohypnol, chloroform) she had failed to get him to even the door of her bedroom, let alone naked and tied to her bedposts wearing a ball gag and a kimono.

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"You take half an E and you wet your little knickers. I saw you naked, in a field, with a whistle and a sock. You thought you were in The Shining."

FnrrfYgmSchnish

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Nov 6, 2009 - 17 20

Quote:
The man in the overalls reached up to his face with one hand and picked his nose for a few seconds, then wiped it on the nearby wall before scratching his crooked moustache and answering.

"The man in the overalls" here is Wario.

grenadiere

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Nov 6, 2009 - 21 07

Both are said by my MC

"I talked to a rubber ducky for a while, until I realized it was plotting to kill me."

"Those unfortunate bastards got to find out what it was like to be eaten alive. I’ve been told it’s rather unpleasant. But that was by a strip of bacon that I talked to that one time."

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Nov 6, 2009 - 21 28

Had she threatened to eat Henry? For the first time since Gretna, Humphrey was truly alarmed. Cannibalism was not acceptable in one’s inlaws!

Definitely Probably not making the final cut... ;)

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Nov 7, 2009 - 00 10

Caution somewhat mature. The character was translating a book...poorly.

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I initially thought it had to do with agriculture and raising animals, from all the mention of a horse’s d-”
“Let’s move on,” Lias said suddenly.

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JKW98

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Nov 7, 2009 - 08 09

I'm actually quite fond of the sentence and most of the paragraph, but here it is:

"If I make history, it will not be for being the first person to die from exploding mothball fumes produced by a secondhand blanket."

spidergirl

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Nov 7, 2009 - 08 26

I wrote a really terrible 58-word sentence yesterday:

"The rotting foods, slovenly and sickly people, and the jeers and shouts slung constantly at passersby were part of the latter group of displeasing attributes, repugnant to the teen girl, and she often wondered how those who worked and resided here day after grueling day could grow accustomed to or learn to ignore such disgusting and horrid things."

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japieee

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Nov 7, 2009 - 11 30

The most ridiculous sentence in my novel so far is probably also the most pornographic. It comes completely out of the blue, since the novel is overall very classical and proper and dark and sober, but then something like this happens:

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The incredible notion that in the eyes of some woman his penis, however average in length or girth, was being held in more esteem than anyone else's, that at night she dreamt of her hands sliding all over his sweaty back, that she would find the mere sight of his semen splattered across her naked breasts as erotic as he would, and the ultimately powerful idea that it was entirely up to him to decide if any of this was going to happen.

It's very... Oh, well. Did I mention these two are 65 and 62 years old, respectively? I should be arrested.

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2008: Junior Boys (won)
2009: Guilt (...?)

OpheliaCat

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Nov 7, 2009 - 12 26

I think this was the most hilarious thing that has happened so far and i've been reading it to people every chance I get. The context are two college students, a Britan and and African American, in an argument that degrades into childish name calling. (fore that sake of conserving space, each line is only separated by a comma.)

“You jackass drunkard!!”, “Oversized cow!”, “Arrogant sponge!”, “Saggy bint!”, “Future wife-beater!”, “Manky hoe!", “Fork!”, “Spoon!”, “Plate!”, “Saucer!”, “Republican!”, “Democrat!”, “Al Gore!”, “Opera Winfrey!”, “Bob Saget!”, “Black Roseanne!”, “Footlicker!”, “Flubberknucker!”, “Matt Damon!”, “RuPaul!”, “Moonshiner!”, “Butch!”

I read this to my mom, and she just couldn't stop laughing and made me read it again. If I can, I'd like to extend this argument to an entire page. Right now it's only a little more than a half page.

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Nov 7, 2009 - 13 49

Oh man..

Well, my best friend recommended this sentence when I told her about this topic, she is actually using it for her signature on our guildforum now.

Quote:
Yes, I think I feel comfortable enough to give a message to that awful Tyrunn, who has had the nerve to try to scare me. You, sir, are no match for this great super spy! She will crush you underneath her high heels and drink a cocktail while doing it. I dare you to come out of your hiding place and try to stop me from writing the truth about you, you horrible person! This will be the proof that the mob can not keep us down! Huzzah!

Tyrunn is a mob boss, and the person writing this is a journalist who is on Tyrunn's hitlist. The journalist isn't really making things any better for himself..

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epoch

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Nov 7, 2009 - 17 13

Quote:
We rarely ever closed the doors to our rooms except for when we slept, not even when there was a party going on, hell, especially not when there was a party going on. The only thing worse than having all your stuff nicked was walking into your room to find two drunk revelers going at it like rabbits on your grandmother’s old quilt.

True story.

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Nov 7, 2009 - 17 15

I detected both a train wreck and a free bed, possibly both in the same orfice.

Followed by:

Three hundred pounds, countless drinks, and three crushing lap dances later, I convinced the woman that we should go to her place instead of mine. My explanation was that I was having my kitchen remodeled and the exposed asbestos were a boner killer.

Ok, that was three sentences. But the hilarious premise here is that a guy is looking for a Sugar Mama in order to live rent-free in her flat but instead is mistaken by an escort to be a banker from Craig's list who tried to meet her incognito at a squat party in Mayfair. She then proceeds to spend all the poor guy's money on taxi rides and over priced drinks all over London, then charges him hundreds of pounds the next morning for services he never wanted to begin with.

I have a really sick sense of humor I guess XD

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Nov 7, 2009 - 17 39

My cheesy line includes a vampire too!! =D

You’re not wanted here, undead,” a voice said. It was guttural, a truck engine to the vampire’s Cadillac purr.

There are definitely bad metaphors sprinkled throughout my writing... but presently I'm too lazy to fix 'em.

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Nov 7, 2009 - 18 15

Hrmmmm... ridiculous bad, I don't know. They're in there, but I'm glossing over the bad writing. riduclous I think it's funny on the other hand...

Quote:

“Probably not the answer they were looking for, huh?” Victoria joked.
“Well, I thought about farting, but felt that the burp was the least offensive option.”
"What was the test about anyway?”
“Oh, emotional projection. Everyone was supposed to be projecting a feeling that they were assigned, and I was supposed to guess who was feeling what.”
“So, how’d you fail that?”
“I didn’t fail, I burped. I maintain that someone was feeling really gassy at the moment...

Quote:

“Fine.. I did ok. But is it my fault if I never saw a real zebra?”
“See - all I get is this hippy crap about feelings in my classes.”

Quote:

Being books about psychology, they all had long titles such as “Maria Hatton: A Study of a Post-Neo-Freudian Elektra Complex, and the Influences on Pre-Neo-Freudian Psychiatry”...

Quote:

“Yes, I’m reading your mind, and no, I’m not to be bent over the desk.”

I don't think they're laugh out loud funny, but I enjoyed writing them.

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