[ale] totally off topic

[Steve Litt]

Sean Kilpatrick via Ale said on Wed, 18 Aug 2021 22:13:36 -0400

>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."

I think Lytton's was great: I shivered from cold and wind when I read
it. In my opinion, Spik was just showboating. I could do better. Heck,
I'm not even sure what Spik's paragraph means.

SteveT

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