Writing so bad it's good

The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (named after the guy who wrote the infamous, trite-the-first-time "It was a dark and stormy night...") recently closed and announced the winners of this year's so-bad-it's-good writing contest.

Winner in the detective category (and my personal favorite) from Eric Rice of Sun Prairie, Wis.:

She walked into my office on legs as long as one of those long-legged birds that you see in Florida the pink ones, not the white ones except that she was standing on both of them, not just one of them, like those birds, the pink ones, and she wasn't wearing pink, but I knew right away that she was trouble, which those birds usually aren't.

Winner in the adventure category, from Joe Wyatt of Amarillo, Texas:

How best to pluck the exquisite Toothpick of Ramses from between a pair of acrimonious vipers before the demonic Guards of Nicobar returned should have held Indy's full attention, but in the back of his mind he still wondered why all the others who had agreed to take part in his wife's holiday scavenger hunt had been assigned to find stuff like a Phillips screwdriver or blue masking tape.

And the Grand Prize winner, from David McKenzie, Wash., the wondrous:

Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin' off Nantucket Sound from the nor' east and the dogs are howlin' for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the "Ellie May," a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin' and, Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests.

All 2009 winners:
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2009.htm
(another particularly good/bad one: "In a flurry of flame and fur, fangs and wicker, thus ended the world's first and only hot air baboon ride.")

Past winners:
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/lyttony.htm