But which model of Spitfire had dual STROMBERGS? The MK VI???
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From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of michael a kowalski
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 5:58 PM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: anybody else seen this?
A friend sent this reference which seemed appropriate to mailing FOT.
mike kowalski
FP1500spit
BULWER-LYTTON CONTEST
An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory
(if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl
Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple:
entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.
Although best known for "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1834), which has been
made into a movie three times, originating the expression "the pen is
mightier than the sword,"
and phrases like "the great unwashed" and "the almighty dollar,"
Bulwer-Lytton opened his novel Paul Clifford (1830) with the immortal words
that the "Peanuts" Beagle Snoopy plagiarized for years, "It was a dark and
stormy night."
The contest began in 1982 as a quiet campus affair, attracting only three
submissions. This response being a thunderous success by academic standards,
the contest went public the following year and ever since has attracted
thousands of annual entries from all over the world.
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
2005 Results
THE WINNER!
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg
carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet
pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching
for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging
to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop
manual.
Dan McKay
Fargo, ND
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