On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 11:45:10 +0100, Jan Nielsen
wrote:

It was dark and stormy night....

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
[
"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at
occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind
which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies),
rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame
of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
]

The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest ....
--
Cliff