23/9/2010 the world's shortest essay

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This is a story of a 16 year old boy from New Hampshire who won the 'World
Title' for the 'Shortest Essay Competition.'


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

Shortest Essay:

An English university creative writing class was asked to write a concise
essay with reference to all of 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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"Jesus," exclaimed Prince, "why do woman want to bed me when I'm only 3ft tall?"
‎"We will wear some very loud shirts. We will wear some very wrong trousers."
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:lol:
Not real royalty though.
;D
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Was Father Grigori Rasputin Tsarevich Alexei's father?

Shorter than the one in the OP (7 words!), and has the advantage of some basis in fact. ;)
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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markfiend wrote:Was Father Grigori Rasputin Tsarevich Alexei's father?

Shorter than the one in the OP (7 words!), and has the advantage of some basis in fact. ;)
Not really, first he'd have had to have met Alexei's mother for the conception, instead of being invited to treat him for haemophilia 2 years after the boys birth :wink:
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1)Religion
2)Royalty
3)Sex
4)Mystery

Holy 'King f**k What the....?

dead easy, where do I pick up my scholarship? ;D
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
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