Andertoons by Mark Anderson for October 22, 2020

Well, the Bulwer Lytton award contest for this year appears to be over.

How about, “It was a dark & stormy night……”??

It was a warm and sunny afternoon when the meteor hit the city.

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.

It was bright blue.

Billy Crystal as Larry in ‘Throw momma from the train’!

Snoopyng on the creative process.

Arma virumque cano.

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a ship appeared on the horizon. The maid screamed!

Aeneid a translation>

Arms and the man I sing

“It was a dark and stormy night when suddenly a shot rang out and a pirate ship appeared on the horizon.” Don’t get no better than Snoopy’s masterpiece.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

ἐν ἀρχη ἡν ὁ λόγος

Nah….too obvious

“Call me Virgil” No, that’s not it…“Call me Ishmael…”