Brendan finally claimed June’s egg tonight, and I’ve just happily sent off his prize. For some reason, the act of my sending the print to Brendan reminded me of a contest I entered last year. The assignment was to use a list of ten rather obscure words in one sentence. The prize? The winner’s face on one of Davezilla‘s Blogger Tarot Cards.

For posterity’s sake, here’s my favorite of my four entries, with the ten words in bold font:

Quite angry that she wasn’t paid,
The trollop, having gotten laid,
Engaged in fisticuffs (in heels!)
With jaunty scapegrace, Chesterfield,
For guttersnipes with barbarous ways,
Who come of age at grunion bays
With sailors and lycanthropy,
Learn bittersweet misanthropy,
And that in life there is this fact:
Verisimilitude, do hookers lack;
So best to deal with fists, this sort,
Than try to win at People’s Court.

Jakob Nielsen, by the way, did not win the contest.

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