The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is for the first sentence of an imaginary bad novel. One entry from this year's contest you might appreciate: >Like most members of "Mustela putorius fero,[sic]" known to laymen as the >domestic ferret, our inquisitive hero (about whom more we shall shortly >read) resembled a shrunken polar bear, toasted by a blowtorch, suffixed >by a tail, and stretched out like taffy while still hot. > > -- Tristan Davenport, Santa Cruz, CA Other wonderful bad reading at http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ Helen [Posted in FML issue 3582]