Friday, May 10, 2002

This winning entry in one of the Imitation Hemmingway contests (archived by J. Gosling) is just about the funniest damn thing we've read all week.  Thinking about "funny literary contests" prompted us to look up the winner in the Science Fiction category in the 2001 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: Kirk's mind raced as he quickly assessed his situation: the shields were down, the warp drive and impulse engines were dead, life support was failing fast, and the Enterprise was plummeting out of control toward the surface of Epsilon VI and, as Scotty and Spock searched frantically through the manuals trying to find a way to save them all, Kirk vowed, as he stared at the solid blue image filling the main view screen, that never again would he allow a Microsoft operating system to control his ship. (by Mike Rottmann of Reno, Nevada) 6:45:42 AM