> Dan McKay, a computer analyst at Microsoft Great Plains in
Fargo, N.D., bested thousands of entrants from North Pole, Alaska,
to Manchester, England, to triumph Wednesday in San Jose State University's
annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
He wrote: "As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual
Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet
pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching
for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging
to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop
manual."
Now, now, you have to include the subsequent paragraph contributed by
someone known to Roadster-chat.net as "Mister Sinuous":
"...And he knew that he had only to wait long enough, and she would begin to
arc, and spark, and leak lubricant... And that once her top was down, it
would never go up again."
More details on the actual contest:
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm
David Lieb
(It SHOULD have been SU carbs!)
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