The finest sentence ever typed in the English language? Quite possibly.
Austin Eavesdropper recounts the saga of John Wayne Chang, president of the Hong Kong Cowboy Association (C.H.A.P.S., for short, somehow) and it’s really not to be missed.
Other competitors for the greatest sentence ever composed, from the same set of correspondence:

“Maybe you can come to [...]

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I know that when a leasing company describes an apartment in Austin as a “flat”, they’re trying to conjure up an image of European sophistication, but boy howdy, does that word have a different connotation when you’ve spent a year holed up in tiny European boxes. A flat is an itty-bitty space you overpay for. [...]

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Hey, you know who’s still a douchebag? That James Frey asshole who wrote A Milion Little Pieces.
I read a Vanity Fair article about the guy a month or two ago and thought, you know, maybe he’s not so bad, he probably deserves a second chance. And then I opened this week’s issue of TimeOut [...]

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Because I’ve heard it said twice today, both times from people without any idea what it actually means: the exception that proves the rule doesn’t mean that, if someone proves something you said is incorrect, it actually makes it more true.
That’s ridiculous. Why would every rule have an exception that makes it true? If [...]

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