Thog's Master Class...

So at SF conventions, and in a zine called the Ansible which I think is online here, there's a column/panel called Thog's Master Class which revels in the sheer badness of bad writing. Mostly things that are unintentionally funny through some oddness of wording, or that just make you go "Huh?"

"At least," you think, "I will never write anything THAT bad."

Doing revisions, I found:

I poked at the food...and watched the conversation float around me.

And my beta reader didn't catch this. Perhaps it doesn't rise to the unintentionally funny, but it did make me go "Huh?"

Kitchen Sink Curry-burgers

I keep trying to make burgers that are edible and not quite succeeding, so when I DO succeed, it's something to write down for further reference:

Salt, pepper, paprika, curry powder
Bread crumbs
About 1/2 a small onion, chopped
A quick shake or two of soy sauce
Olive oil
1/2 kg of beef (is that about 1 pound?)

These are actually really good. Compared to the burgers I usually make. Yay, I'm not incompetent!