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a bit OT, and who knows who's still here, but...

announced back in July, 2025, but I just caught the note now:

Bye bye to the Bulwer-Lytton contest

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

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In alt.folklore.urban danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

Bye bye to the Bulwer-Lytton contest

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

Reggie Hackner stared at his typewriter with gimlet eyes shot with
red like those of a sterno bum on a five-day bender. "What does
the future hold for a specialist such as I," he moaned internally.
"Now I have nothing to offer the squares to raise them from their
self-made Procrustean bed of form and mediocrity!"
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"Anyway, we delivered the bomb."
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In <10h2eb9$csr$1@reader2.panix.com> Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> writes:

In alt.folklore.urban danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

Bye bye to the Bulwer-Lytton contest

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

Reggie Hackner stared at his typewriter with gimlet eyes shot with
red like those of a sterno bum on a five-day bender. "What does
the future hold for a specialist such as I," he moaned internally.
"Now I have nothing to offer the squares to raise them from their
self-made Procrustean bed of form and mediocrity!"

The roooolezzz are it has to be a single sentence. Sorry.
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In alt.folklore.urban danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

In <10h2eb9$csr$1@reader2.panix.com> Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> writes:

Reggie Hackner stared at his typewriter with gimlet eyes shot with
red like those of a sterno bum on a five-day bender. "What does
the future hold for a specialist such as I," he moaned internally.
"Now I have nothing to offer the squares to raise them from their >self-made Procrustean bed of form and mediocrity!"

The roooolezzz are it has to be a single sentence. Sorry.

I think that the first one might qualify for at least a placement.
Might need a bit of embellishment.
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"Anyway, we delivered the bomb."
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On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 00:03:19 -0000 (UTC), Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:

In alt.folklore.urban danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

In <10h2eb9$csr$1@reader2.panix.com> Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> writes:

Reggie Hackner stared at his typewriter with gimlet eyes shot with
red like those of a sterno bum on a five-day bender. "What does
the future hold for a specialist such as I," he moaned internally.
"Now I have nothing to offer the squares to raise them from their
self-made Procrustean bed of form and mediocrity!"

The roooolezzz are it has to be a single sentence. Sorry.

I think that the first one might qualify for at least a placement.
Might need a bit of embellishment.

IHNTA IJLTS <waves to the AFU lurkers>


Thomas Prufer
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On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 21:15:12 +0000
danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

a bit OT, and who knows who's still here, but...

announced back in July, 2025, but I just caught the note now:

Bye bye to the Bulwer-Lytton contest

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

Ah, 'tis a dark and stormy night, Frodo.
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Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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On 12/6/2025 4:33 PM, danny burstein wrote:

In <10h2eb9$csr$1@reader2.panix.com> Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> writes:

In alt.folklore.urban danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

Bye bye to the Bulwer-Lytton contest

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

Reggie Hackner stared at his typewriter with gimlet eyes shot with
red like those of a sterno bum on a five-day bender. "What does
the future hold for a specialist such as I," he moaned internally.
"Now I have nothing to offer the squares to raise them from their
self-made Procrustean bed of form and mediocrity!"

The roooolezzz are it has to be a single sentence. Sorry.

Maybe so, but I still want to hear the rest of the story.
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On 12/6/25 1:15 PM, danny burstein wrote:

a bit OT, and who knows who's still here, but...

announced back in July, 2025, but I just caught the note now:

Bye bye to the Bulwer-Lytton contest

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

The best of all Bulwyr-Lytton contests is to read
Bulwyr-Lytton; so far I've read Paul Clifford,
Eugene Aram and A Strange Story. I had laugh out
moments with the latter two, such as Eugene Aram
defending himself in court by philosophically
attacking the very concept of circumstantial
evidence, and resting his case, or the otherwise
slog near the beginning of A Strange Story is a
description of British Class, where it is so
praiseworthy to be a lazy sod, which he reneges
on by working as a pharmacist, if I remember right.

The first sentence of Paul Clifford is a little
aukward with the parentheses, but what of it? The
funny thing about the book is it is filled with threats
about death but I only noticed one death, the magistrate
who died of a heart attack racing home with anxiety
when he was informed of the criminal nature of Paul
Clifford, who he thought was a friend, to see if he
stole anything of his or his friends. As it is
historic historical fiction, even though of the time
when judicial execution was a leading cause of death
because about everything was punished with it, I
would guess that what happened to the magistrate
wouldn't be illegal.


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danny burstein submitted this gripping article, maybe on Saturday:

a bit OT, and who knows who's still here, but...

announced back in July, 2025, but I just caught the note now:

Bye bye to the Bulwer-Lytton contest

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

New Years Eve really is a dark and stormy night in Southern California.

Hope the First Footing greets you well.

/dps "trimmed to AFCA"
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