Out of the killer cold of the forty-below unending Arctic night into the
glowing warmth of the Last Ditch Saloon, we stumbled numbly, dragging behind
us the frozen dead corpse of our friend, Bartholomew, whom the hardened
permafrost of the tundra resisted our burying, and, leaning poor stiff Bart
against a wall, gaily called out for drinks for the house, as we were flush
with prospected gold that now only needed to be split two ways.
-- Jeff Riopelle's entry to the 2001 annual Bulwer-Lytton contest
Quote #557
Carlotta lay on the mound of pillows strewn about the floor of the
poolhouse back arched and head thrown back, screaming the name of the only
man who had ever taken her to the pinnacle of unbridled ecstasy, the only
man with whom she had experienced the overwhelming rush of carnal
electricity - unfortunately not the man who now peered up at her from the
tangle of hastily discarded clothing with the sullen and quizzical visage of
a calf looking at a new gate....
Quote #552
Kirk's mind raced as he quickly assessed his situatio he shields were
down, the warp drive and impulse engines were dead, life support was failing
fast, and the Enterprise was plummeting out of control toward the surface of
Epsilon VI and, as Scotty and Spock searched frantically through the manuals
trying to find a way to save them all, Kirk vowed, as he stared at the solid
blue image filling the main view screen, that never again would he allow a
Microsoft operating system to control his ship....
Quote #554
Rodney knew that he was going to die a horrible creaming, unspeakable
death, when he arrived on the bridge in a uniform that did not match the
others, was referred to only as "yeoman" and was to be sent planetside with
Captain Kirk and the regular away team....
Quote #549
When the mightily-hewn warrior-hero Glark One-Ea fed up with paying the
tribute demanded by the despotic wizard Jormed-the-Doubly-Soulless, set out
to single-handedly unite the warring barbarian tribes of Verfot and lead
them in bloodily overthrowing the evil mage's tyranny, he envisioned a
progressive tax system based upon income brackets, yet allowing deductions
for business expenses, dependents, and charitable donations....
Quote #560
Unwittingly, Bob pressed the Enter key ending a stream of zeros and ones
in electronic form across the computer's bus, through the processor, out the
serial cable, through the 56K modem, and into the seamy and unfathomable
world of the Internet where his MasterCard number became as ubiquitous as
the cute chord that plays when you boot up a Windows based computer....
Quote #565
Virgule gazed across the vast, cold eel expanse past his inquisitor to
witness the full consequence of his previous decision - feral, withered
children, in tattered, filthy garments, toiled mindlessly at his command in
a single chamber which reeked of oil and burning animal flesh - his time had
come to deliver the final instructio...
Quote #553
The battered starship bucked and yawed in the frigid belly of the
interstellar ion storm her tortured steel deckplates screaming as they were
mercilessly wrenched by the lashing gravity tide waves, the ship's disaster
alarms blaring madly and the crash lighting casting an eerie red glow in the
smoke-filled bridge as StarCaptain Lazlo Permute, gripping the diskette
containing the necessary navigation coordinates to finally escape the storm,
waited for the elevator door to the bridge to go "ding" and open....