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“What? Those are the winners?! Where is my glorious entry? Dammit, you wouldn’t know funny if it bit you on the ass!
No doubt. This sort of thing is enormously subjective. On a different day I might well have picked a slightly different group of winners, and a different judge would almost certainly have come up with a very different list. It’s hard to draw a line between those that just barely make it in and those which are just barely left out. So if your sentence doesn’t appear below, that doesn’t necessarily mean it was no good—it just didn’t jump out at me the way these did. And of course, I wouldn’t know funny if it bit me on the ass.
Here’s this year’s winner:
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John, surfing, said to his mother, surfing beside him, “How do you like surfing?” |
I keep trying to think of something insightful to say about this year's winner, but then I reread it and just start laughing again.
Second place and a Montfort Medal goes to:
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Man oh man, you’re gonna like this book; boy howdy. |
The semicolon makes that one. A second Montfort Medal goes to:
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Before I drop this narrative shit, here’s a quick shout-out to that old Classics professor who said I couldn’t write for jack: yo, suck me! |
Two Comrade Todd Awards this year:
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Get ready to take a virtual tour of sydney australia through the backyards of a kangaroo who will punch you in the head fifty times! |
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Braille haiku on the gravestone served to excite some while sighted visitors needed only touch the smoothly polished shapes. |
I’m not entirely sure what’s going on with that second one but there’s something oddly compelling about it.
This year’s Berman Prize winner is:
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Dr. Metzger turned to greet his new patient, blithely unaware he would soon become a member of a secret brotherhood as old as urology itself. |
And then we have some honorable mentions:
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“Joy is contagious,” he said, peering into the microscope. |
(Normally I don't go for puns, but that one was well done.)
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Her ovine familiar baaahed angrily. |
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The spaceship was crashing, but, more importantly, John and Greta were having sex in it. |
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I wonder whether this is the same John who was surfing earlier. What a full, rich life he leads!
(Definitions: the Montfort Medal is awarded to entries that refer to the book itself or the process of writing it; the Comrade Todd Award is given to uniquely mangled prose; the Berman Prize is for entries that seem innocuous yet suggest truly appalling books.)
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