Bad Sentence All Stars

Last week's contest was a walkover, with number six destroying the competition.



6.) "I love walking and think I can experience it even more if I go by foot." (Yogi could not have said it better.)



This week, we've been asked to hold an all star contest from the days before we began posting the bad sentence contests. Here are the winners of the first several trials and errors with language.



1.) "Motherhood doesn't always make the headlines as a sexy subject - unless the story is about Salma Hayek breast feeding a stranger's baby, but in a metro like Des Moines , where roughly 30,000 women aged 25-34 are mothers, it seems like all types of moms - natural living moms, hip mamas (like Steve Bosman, 26, pictured here with her son Hayden, 6), stay-at-home moms, working moms, progressive and tradtitional moms - are talking about what it takes to raise children.



2.) "This is the place to sneak an ice cold beer over the lunch hour and indulge in ridiculously comfortable food, the kind of stuff that - if you grew up in a household where a brick of Velveeta could always be found in the fridge - will take you back to a time when calories weren't counted."



3) "I'm not normally a regular at places, so it felt kind of awkward to see someone who was being kind of obnoxious 24 hours before in a slightly more sober state a few stools away."



4.) “Intensive care wasn't the first intense time the couple faced together.”



5.) "The dining room spans several rooms."



6.) “It was July of 2003 and six months into the relationship when Susanna Funk, now 29, underwent brain surgery for a blockage discovered while participating in a study at the University of Iowa, where she was a nursing student.”



7.) "The concept swings more hits than strikes."



8.) “Situated on a corner in the hilly and historic Sherman Hill Neighborhood, Café di Scala is located on the main floor of beautiful Victorian home, making it one of the classiest restaurants in town.”



9.) "Volunteering on the board of a local nonprofit is a great extracurricular to accompany your career."



10.) “I'm going to admit that at the first bite, the metaphor that came to mind was that it tasted like I imagine having sex as a man feels.”

(editor's note: When this review was republished in a second DM Register publication a few weeks later, this sentence had been edited to - "the lamb exploded in my mouth." )