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#145522 07/29/2005 1:47 PM
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The awards were announced Thursday. Modesty prevents me from posting the winner here, but you can see it for yourself there:

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

... and for those not in the know, Bulwer-Lytton was the very man who penned those opening words :"It was a dark and stormy night"...


#145523 07/29/2005 3:21 PM
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>Modesty prevents me from posting the winner..

for a mo' there you had me thinking you were the winner; but now I've seen the Erewhon of my ways.


#145524 07/29/2005 3:25 PM
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Modesty prevents me What, your nom-de-plume is Dan McKay??

I love this, from the rules for submission: The official deadline is April 15 (a date that Americans associate with painful submissions and making up bad stories).

Edit: tsuwm, you snuck!



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