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The worst sentence in America.

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As people who work in higher education, we tend to be people who are…well…word nerds. We spend a lot of our time crafting the perfect copy for a brochure, the snappiest of taglines for a billboard, or the most satiating response to “why is your school so damn expensive???”
Take heart. At least you’re hard work has never earned you the ‘honor’ of receiving the Bulwer-Lytton Award for “Worst Sentence in America”.

This year’s winner:

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.

By: Molly Ringle, Seattle, WA

Check out past ‘winners’ on their website. Hope I don’t see you there!