It was a dark and stormy night; the electronic missive's profligate packets
wormed their wandering ways through the taut, transparent cables of the
Internet's infrastructure, sped by swift, silent Solaris servers between
bevies of brawny binaries - gap-toothed GIF's and jolly JPEG's - only to
perish pitifully at the hands of the callous, capable kill-filter that
protected the penultimate portal of Pauline's precious PC.
-- Don Radlauer's entry to the 2001 annual Bulwer-Lytton contest
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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 #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 #562
Unbeknownst to Stan, his convulsive celebratory leap into the air at the
winning Manchester goal, propelled his sausage from between the clenched
grasp of bread and mustard into the wildly cheering crowd, only to land
harmlessly beneath the bleachers in a turgidly congealed pool of spilt beer
and the random effluvia typically present at sporting events of this nature....
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....