"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
--Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

"It was a dark and stormy night.... Behind the trees clouds scudded frantically across the sky. Every few moments the moon ripped through them, creating wraith-like shadows that raced along the ground."
--Madeleine L'Engle

"It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed.
Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon!"
--Snoopy

"It was a dark and stormy night on the Thames Embankment, and there I stood in my thrice-turned paper overcoat, with my toes sticking out of my feet!"
- Sir Harry Secombe aka Neddy Seagoon


The idiot also known as Capfka ...