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."
23/9/2010 the world's shortest essay
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weebleswobble
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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."
Not real royalty though.
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markfiend
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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.
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.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell
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 birthmarkfiend 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.
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James Blast
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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?
2)Royalty
3)Sex
4)Mystery
Holy 'King f**k What the....?
dead easy, where do I pick up my scholarship?
"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
~ Peter Steele