[ale] totally off topic

[Sean Kilpatrick]

Purely for humorous interest:

This year's Bulwer Lytton contest was won last week by 41-year-old
communications director Garrison Spik, from Washington DC, for the line:
"Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like
the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like
slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers
stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, NJ.'"

Sean

And in case you were wondering:

The late Mr. Lytton (1803-1873) was an English writer and Whig politician.
His famous line is the opening sentence of the novel “Paul Clifford”:

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at
occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which
swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling
along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps
that struggled against the darkness."
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