For those talking about Dark & Stormy drinks recently this week's food section

[melissa-dallas]

in the Dallas Morning News had a feature on the proliferation of ginger & ginger beer drinks, alcoholic and non. Some of these look pretty great. I think I'd like the Kaffir Lime & Ginger one myself.http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/taste/stories/DN-nf_ginger_0819gd.ART.State.Edition1.270875c.html

 

[marilynfl]

I must include the "It was a dark and story night" contest

(text from the Internet)

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.

Bulwer-Lytton opened his novel Paul Clifford (1830) with the immortal words: "It was a dark and stormy night."

2008 winner:

They had but one last remaining night together, so they embraced each other as tightly as that two-flavor entwined string cheese that is orange and yellowish-white, the orange probably being a bland Cheddar and the white . . . Mozzarella, although it could possibly be Provolone or just plain American, as it really doesn't taste distinctly dissimilar from the orange, yet they would have you believe it does by coloring it differently.

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2009.htm

 

[marilynfl]

geezo...that should be "was a dark and stormy night". Sorry Bulwer.