[OT] Humor - It was a dark and stormy night...

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:35:16 -0500, Mark Edwards
yodeled:

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest results for 2005 have been released.

http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm

From an article at CNN.com:


http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/book....ap/index.html

"The competition highlights literary achievements of
the most dubious sort -- terrifyingly bad sentences
that take their inspiration from minor writer Edward
George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel 'Paul
Clifford' began, 'It was a dark and stormy night.'

The Winner:

As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the
dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph
Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed,
perched prominently on top of the intake manifold,
aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps
of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and
adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop
manual.

-- Dan McKay, Fargo, ND


From the Miscellaneous Dishonorable Mentions section:

They ask me if it was dark that night the hyenas showed
up and ate the little beagle as he sat typing away on
his dog house and then ate all the little round-faced
kids, and I tell 'em, "no," it was not even stormy, kind
of a calm, half-moon lit night where you'd sit on your
deck having some peanuts, until the hyenas arrived of
course and then it got so noisy you had to go in the house.

-- Bill Crowley, Santa Rosa, CA


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark


Ah, the Bulwer-Lyttons! An annual treat. Thanks.

Theresa
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"Mark Edwards" wrote in message
...
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest results for 2005 have been released.

http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm

I like the narcoleptic lover one.

Diane

Mark, thanks for the info! I love this contest and could use the laughs!
Christine
"Mark Edwards" wrote in message
...
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest results for 2005 have been released.

http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm

From an article at CNN.com:


http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/book....ap/index.html

"The competition highlights literary achievements of
the most dubious sort -- terrifyingly bad sentences
that take their inspiration from minor writer Edward
George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel 'Paul
Clifford' began, 'It was a dark and stormy night.'

The Winner:

As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the
dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph
Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed,
perched prominently on top of the intake manifold,
aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps
of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and
adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop
manual.

-- Dan McKay, Fargo, ND


From the Miscellaneous Dishonorable Mentions section:

They ask me if it was dark that night the hyenas showed
up and ate the little beagle as he sat typing away on
his dog house and then ate all the little round-faced
kids, and I tell 'em, "no," it was not even stormy, kind
of a calm, half-moon lit night where you'd sit on your
deck having some peanuts, until the hyenas arrived of
course and then it got so noisy you had to go in the house.

-- Bill Crowley, Santa Rosa, CA


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark