23rd July, 2004

Dark and Stormy

It’s been a long week, so to help kick off your weekend the right way, I present you with this bit of jocularity: the 2004 results of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. My fave entry:

She sipped her latte gracefully, unaware of the milk foam droplets building on her mustache, which was not the peachy-fine baby fuzz that Nordic girls might have, but a really dense, dark, hirsute lip-lining row of fur common to southern Mediterranean ladies nearing menopause, and winked at the obviously charmed Spaniard at the next table.

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