Friday, May 11, 2007

Winner of the Shortest Essay competition

I'll leave you with this for the weekend. Have a wonderful weekend, y'all!

This is a story of a 16-year-old boy from New Hampshire who won the World's shortest essay competition.

He was awarded a scholarship at the University of Harvard for his imagination and humour ....Here's an example of absolute brilliance....

Shortest Essay:
An English university creative writing class was asked to write a concise essay containing the following elements:

1) Religion 2) Royalty 3) Sex 4) Mystery

The prize-winner wrote:


"My God," said the Queen, "I'm pregnant. I wonder who the father is."

6 comments:

  1. LOL! Excellent!! Where you go dig up all these gems ah?!! AH? Happy Weekend to you! HUGS

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  2. After the fiasco of her recent visit to the USA, I think can be pretty sure it isn't George W. :D

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  3. haha thats too funny!

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  4. LB, psst... my friends all own gem-mines. lol Glad you enjoyed it.

    PandaB, wicked! lol!

    Sulee, it is, isn't it?

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  5. Anonymous1:23 PM

    an apocryphal story.

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