This year's Bulwer-Lytton Awards...

For those of you who don't know about them, the B-L awards are an annual contest in which people submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. Edward Bulwer-Lytton was the writer who gave us the immortal opening line "It was a dark and stormy night," with which all fans of Snoopy's novel-writing career should be familiar.

To read more, go to http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2002.htm