Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a popular Victorian novelist, best known for penning the immortal purple phrase: 'It was a dark and stormy night." (Snoopy owes royalties.) The folks who run the Bulwer-Lytton Bad Fiction Contest have a site that includes a showcase of actual samples of published writing that would make even Sir Edward squirm.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing:
"With listeners leaning over the velvet restraining ropes and angling for pictures, John Glenn urged them to remember Shepard's 1961 Redstone flight in its political context, when the Soviet Union was seducing world opinion with the lingerie of Earth-orbiting technology."
-- Billy Cox, "Shepard Statue Honors American Space Cowboys," Florida Today, March 24, 2000.
Yes, you did just read that. Enjoy.
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