Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:06:26 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night ..."
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Yes, folks, the moment we've all been waiting for -- the announcement of
the "winners" of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, for the first
sentence of the Worst of All Possible Novels:

<http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/>

To save you from having to click on the link, the winner is:

"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."

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Steve Smith                                    sgs at aginc dot net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."