"Robert Langdon awoke slowly."<br><br>That's one's pretty bad.<br><br>A!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carl Westberg</b> <<a href="mailto:carlwestberg846@hotmail.com">
carlwestberg846@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The winner of the Bulwer-Lytton contest, wherein one writes only the first
<br>line of a bad novel: First prize: "The sun oozed over the horizon, shoved<br>aside darkness, crept along the greensward, and, with sickly fingers, pushed<br>through the castle window, revealing the privileged princess, hand at
<br>throat, crown asunder, gasping in frenzied horror at the sated, sodden<br>amphibian lying beside her, disbelieving the magnitude of the frog's<br>deception, screaming madly, 'You lied!" My favorite: "Stanley looked
<br>quite bored and somewhat detached, but then penguins often do." Carl<br>Westberg Jr.<br><br><br>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>
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