Weblogs: From the Dept. of Extreme Silliness

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The 2005 Bulwer-Lytton contest winners have been announced! That's annual worst-opening-for-a-novel contest, you know. I really have to enter one of these days; I've had a perfectly hideous entry sitting around since 1983 -- and I know where to get more of the same.

Allow me to reproduce an entry by Kari A. Stiller of College Station:

"Patricia wrote out the phrase 'It was a dark and stormy night' exactly seventy-two times, which was the same number of times she stabbed her now quickly-rotting husband, and the same number of pages she ripped out of 'He's Just Not That Into You' by Greg Behrendt to scatter around the room -- not because she was obsessive compulsive, or had any sentimental attachment to the number seventy-two, but because she'd always wanted to give those quacks at CSI a hard time."