On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:54:19 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:

(Pullet Surprise)

It may have been. I got it from my sophomore-year high school English
teacher, who got it from an essay by one of his students, who didn't know
****. My English teacher awarded it for any sentence over 50 words long. He
would draw a big cartridge on your paper, in red, and it was sitting
base-down on a trophy base.

When I was a young editor at _American Machinist_ I kept a folder labelled
Bullet Surprise Winners, of press releases that were real stinkers. My

I trust you've heard of the annual awards by Bulwer Lytton?
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/


favorite came from Burston-Marstellar, one of the biggest and most acclaimed
PR companies in the business. The headline read "Cold-headed Stud Saves Long
Island Potato Farmers." I pictured somebody like Vin Diesel defending the
fields from groundhogs or something. But that wasn't it. It was some kind of
fastener that did something unremarkable. It was a metalworking magazine,
after all.

Sest lavvy, mon sewer.

Hey, Vin Diesel! He's one of my favorite action stars, right up there
with Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, Chuck Norris, Wesley Snipes,
Bruce Willis, Rutger Hauer, Dolph Lundgren, Mel Gibson, Jean-Claude
van Damme, Steven Seagal, and Harrison Ford. Who needs a plot when
you have _ACTION_! Speaking of Ford, I wonder if the new Indy flick
is going to be any good.

--
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
-- Henry David Thoreau