Teenagers who write badly, like bad teenage writers

I love the fathers chansing kids with power tools one.

 

Sure, guys. Go ahead and poke fun. But these teenagers still are provably, demonstrably better writers than JDV.

 

It would be nice if there were some new ones once in a while. I saw this stuff three years ago. Like everything on the interwebs, it circles the globe about once a year, like a swallow coming back to Capistrano, if a swallow could write. And use the interwebs.

 

I spy a former editor of mine furiously typing these into his next 90-inch gamer.

 

You are correct; they appear to be from the Washington Post's long running weekly "Style Invitational" contest:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031600738_pf.html
and
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031600802_pf.html

 

MM, if you're talking about who I think you are, that is the best post of the year for me.