Virgule gazed across the vast, cold, steel 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 instruction; "Yes! I would like fries with that."
-- Ed Reffle's entry to the 2001 annual Bulwer-Lytton contest
Quote #564
With wild gesticulations and loud, gutteral shou Father Steve" jerked
the desperately ill patient back and forth while pelting him with oil,
dousing him with holy water, and beating him vigorously about the head with
a pocket New Testament (the words of Jesus being written in red) in his own
unique version of Xtreme Unction....
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 #550
"I could tell you stories about this road we shall be traveling he old
man told his young companions as he leaned on his staff and stroked his
silver beard, "of how it was built by Dwarves of the Barad-dur in the days
of Thranduil the Great, numberless years before the Elves of the Ered Luin
left their silver woods in Lindon, sailed their ships over the Western Sea,
and passed from the knowledge of men, but what would you learn from these
tales, except that I squandered my college years reading far too much
Tolkien instead of meeting girls....
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 #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 #563
Her low-cut, revealing gown was black - black like her hea although not
really because everyone knows that a heart is just an internal organ whose
natural pigment is pink just like the lungs, except, of course, for the
lungs of a long-time smoker which may be as black as her low-cut, revealing
gown....