You've seen them -- the stories on the Internet purporting to explain some everyday term or aphorism in some weird way, totally off the wall. Well, we'll begin with one... In his laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ, back in the 1870s, Thomas A. Edison was hard at work developing an efficient artificial source of light. …
Tag: goofy stuff
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2011 Results
The most recent annual results from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. The contest challenges entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels and takes its name from the Victorian novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, who began his “Paul Clifford” with “It was a dark and stormy night.” My favorite this year is the following, which received …
Helping Define Your Financial Future 