[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks]OT-A dark and stormy night in all directions at once

[Elaine Koogler]

Aaaaarrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhhh!  Ten thousand clowns out of work and, not only do I
have to live with one, I find them all over this list!!!!!

Kiri

sjk3 at cornell.edu wrote:

> > Isn't that the same story that starts "It was a dark and stormy night on the
> > west end of London. Fortunately, our story takes place on the east coast
> > of Kent, where it was a warm and cheeful night", or something very close to
> > that?
> >
> > Alban
>
>     Speaking of which, this year's winners are out (probably have been
> for a while, as some look familiar) at
> http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2001.htm
>
> A semi-on-topic sample:
>
> Winner: Dark & Stormy Night Category
>
> It was a dark and stormy night as Jacque the baker slogged through the
> black cheerless alleyways of Avignon, the cold Provencal rain soaking him
> to the bone, increasing his fury at having chosen the life of a
> breadmaker, for the early hours truly went against his grain and it
> chaffed him that he trudged to work in wee hours of the morning while the
> rest of the world loafed in bed; what more proof did he need of his
> misery, why did he bother, surely it was not for the dough, exasperating
> as the rise and fall of the boulangerie's business might be, and suddenly
> he knew with conviction that he was, after all, just a gluten for
> punishment.
>
> James Bardsley
> Skillman, NJ
>
> **
>
> Sandra Kisner
> sjk3 at cornell.edu
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