The Wordsmith Winner
By St Marlowe
June 10 2008
This is the winner of the Wordsmith Competition this year. Although it was the only entry (ND1 season did not appear to bring out the best), it is superb in it's wit, brevity and accuracy.I will not announce the name of the author yet, as i thought you should have an opportunity to guess. The winner will be awarded the prize of a good bottle of Scotch, kindly donated by Chris Hoddle.
Wordsmith competition 2008
Being a staunch supporter of the use of plain English, it is with some trepidation, that in postprandial mood, having partaken of a delicious flummery, I join, serotine, the ranks of lexiphanes and Lychnobites whose excursive vaudeville has lightened these dark months. With an extensive use of nosism and an endless cavalcade of algorithms, these erudite posters fulminate and wax lyrical in their contributions to that vanguard, that force majeure, that is Come on You Saints.com.
Supererogatory criticism, incongruous metaphor and moliminous hyperbole have all been observed from these passionate posters, indurate to the penance Saints must serve, but equally intent on immediate return to their echt position in the premiership. One season lying recumbent in the dingle of ND1, playing on the titian leas of the West country, against hirsute props from the impecunious, foundlings of this division will suffice. The pinchbeck rapprochement between the hierarch and ND1 has been seen at close quarter and nothing has ever been more lucent than that this is not where Saints belong - Come on you Saints!
The Wordsmith Winner
Posted by: ComeOnYouSaints.com (IP Logged)
Date: 10/06/2008 23:05
The Wordsmith Winner
Re: The Wordsmith Winner
Posted by: Paul Flatt (IP Logged)
Date: 11/06/2008 23:12
I thought Erudite was a glue until I discovered Smirnoff...
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 A.D.
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 A.D.
Re: The Wordsmith Winner
Posted by: Flinstone Saint (IP Logged)
Date: 11/06/2008 23:14
...and nosism is a sexual deviance, surely.......
Re: The Wordsmith Winner
Posted by: SumoSaint (IP Logged)
Date: 17/06/2008 22:08
Er, was it Rob Richmond, David?
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