here's another email worthy of sharing with the public..........
Only the first line - Bad Novels
These are this year's 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!"