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