Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Shortest Award-winning Essay

This is too good to pass up and not re-post. I received this email from my alumni yahoo group. My serotonin (feel good chemicals) levels went up.  Humor can indeed be a "cure all" if not a soothing remedy to a slow and lazy day.
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.. ..

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."

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