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If you recall Snoopy's line: "It was a dark and stormy night..." was actually borrowed from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel "Paul Clifford", and according to the wiki represents "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing,".
But take heart, there's actually a contest where people compete to write the most melodramatic opening phrase. This year's winner:
Even from the hall, the overpowering stench told me the dingy caramel glow in his office would be from a ten-thousand-cigarette layer of nicotine baked on a naked bulb hanging from a frayed wire in the center of a likely cracked and water-stained ceiling, but I was broke, he was cheap, and I had to find her.
William "Barry" Brockett, Tallahassee, FL
You can read more great entries here: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
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He makes me laugh. And the description in the link:
Acclaimed self-help guru Doug Stanhope delivers a sermon on how to unlock the extraordinary healing power that lay in faith, goodwill, and unconditional love.
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A friend sent me this:
"TODAY Tastemaker and child development expert Deborah Gilboa told TODAY Parents that the real crime in the Canadian teenager's 911 call to report her parents last week "seems to be that we have robbed teenagers of any sense of true difficulty or emergency."
I only know the boy, and the old adage/myth that girls mature faster than boys... but, and not to endorse TODAY magazine, this made sense.
(thanks, Leslie)
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Link: http://www.vocativ.com/342192/tony-greenhand-stoner-gets-paid-7000-to-roll-spectacular-joints/
What with your crafty streak and all, this might be for you. Although I worry you'd just make them and smoke 'em.
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I frequently despair of the legal system, and America, and then I come across something that gives me hope.
Like this - A Law Professor's rebuttal of Student's complaint that he wore a "Black Lives Matter" T-Shirt to campus.
Well reasoned and written. The students, well, not so, this is why they're students, but if all this excellence adds up to America, then where's the problem?
Link: http://backspace.com/notes/2016/07/law-professors-response-to-black-lives-matter-shirt-complaint.php