On June 15, 2003 the esteemed of the "Bulwer-Lytton First Line" contest were announced. I found it hilarious. When I shared it with a few friends the resounding response was: What is this?! The answer is nestled within the third paragraph: The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.
An example I can relate to:
There was no question about it, my computer was locked up like a crazy aunt in a dark, secluded attic, or like the brakes on my '73 Chevy Impala on a rainy day when my wife is driving the kids to origami lessons and is running late because Isaiah, my son, made a fuss at the last minute and refused to be put into his car seat. - Peter L. Belmonte, Altus AFB, OK
Well, not the crazy aunt part. ;-)
I wanted to send links to individual entries through IM and email. But the best I could do was say "Search for 'SPAM'", etc. If the site were noted with id or name attributes, that might have helped, but what I really needed was Purple Numbers. FROM OUTEERR SPAAAACE!!! Or in Zwiki. Sorry, couldn't help myself. It's from Blue Oxen, actually....not that that's much better for my silly binge. Yes I'm a green-horn blogger avoiding yellow journalism and orange-ya glad there's nothing left to be read?
11:29:30 PM 
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