Winners of the "Dark and Stormy Night Awards"

["Ron Hearn" <RHearn -at- cucbc -dot- com>]

A little humor for Humpday

 

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Subject: Fw: Winners of the "Dark and Stormy Night Awards"

 

  


This year's 10 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton contest, aka "Dark and
Stormy Night Contest" (run by the English Dept. of San Jose State
University), wherein one writes only the first line of a bad novel:
 
10) "As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break
wind in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it."
  
9) "Just beyond the Narrows, the river widens."
  
8) "With a curvaceous figure that Venus would have envied, a tanned,
unblemished oval face framed with lustrous thick brown hair, deep
azure-blue eyes  fringed with long black lashes, perfect teeth that vied
for competition, and a small straight nose,  Marilee had a beauty that
defied description."
  
7) "Andre, a simple peasant, had only one thing on his mind as he crept
along the East wall: 'Andre creep...  Andre creep...  Andre creep.'"
  
6) "Stanislaus Smedley, a man always on the cutting edge of narcissism,
was about to give his body and soul to a back alley sex-change surgeon
to become the woman he loved."
  
5) "Although Sarah had an abnormal fear of mice, it did not keep her
from eeking out a living at a local pet store."
  
4) "Stanley looked quite bored and somewhat detached, but then penguins
often do."
  
3) "Like an over-ripe beefsteak tomato rimmed with cottage cheese, the
corpulent remains of Santa Claus lay dead on the hotel floor."
  
2) "Mike Hardware was the kind of private eye who didn't know the
meaning of the word 'fear'; a man who could laugh in the face of danger
and spit in the eye of death -- in short, a moron with suicidal
tendencies."
 
AND THE WINNER IS...

1) "The sun oozed over the horizon, shoved aside darkness, crept along
the greensward, and, with sickly fingers, pushed through the castle
window, revealing  the pillaged princess, hand at throat, crown asunder,
gaping in frenzied horror at the sated, sodden amphibian lying beside
her,  disbelieving the magnitude of the frog's deception, screaming
madly,
'You lied!" 

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