Each year, the English Department at San Jose State University sponsors the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Entrants are competing to see who can write the worst opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels. There are several subcategories (e.g. detective fiction, romance, etc) but the Grand Prize this year went to Sue Fondrie for the following entry:

"Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories. " Check out their website - it's good for lots of laughs!