Peanuts by Charles Schulz for July 11, 2012

Suddenly, a shot rang out!A door slammed. The maid screamed.Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon!Meanwhile, a beagle cashes a royalty check for $75.

Sooner or later, that editor is going to be fired by somebody.

better than $50.

Suddenly, the sun came up, and the clouds cleared out. The end.

“The City came to life. The sun spit morning into Julian’s face…”

The dark and stormy knight took the white and slinky queen.

There was an issue of BATMAN which played on this verbal theme while the Dark Knight was going through his paces. Most effective, I should’ve bought that issue.

A trilogy?

Snoopy is really doing good as a writer, wonder what he is going to do with that money? He also is doing better without Woodstock, because right when he comes along Snoopy’s stories are always being reject bey the editors.

AGAIN SNOOPY???

Actually, there is one very popular children’s novel which begins with this very line — and it’s a Newberry Award winner, at that! Pick up Madeline L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time;” you’ll be amazed at how good it is, despite its using Snoopy’s first line!

Meanwhile, someone started a novel with:“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”Look what happened with that beginning….

I love Snoopy’s grin of proud satisfaction in the first panel!

It was a dark and stormy nightAnd in the dark and stormy night the was a dark dark roadAnd at the end the dark dark road was a dark dark houseThe dark dark house had a dark dark doorBehind the dark dark door was a dark dark hallIn the dark dark hall was a dark dark stairsAt the top of the dark dark stairs was a dark dark doorBehind the dark dark door was a dark dark roomIn the dark dark room…….

It was DARK……..

Dark is a strange word when you type it so many times ;)

If only it were THAT simple!

LOL LOL. I love Snoopy.

xxx

What you’re talking about is the Bulwer–Lytton Fiction Contest. It’s based on the opening line of Paul Clifford by British novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton.The complete opening sentence from that book is as follows:“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.”

It was a dark and stormy night, then the power went out.

The dead are not quiet in Hill House

An evil old house..The kind some people call haunted..

It has stood for 90 years and may stand for 90 more.

Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone at Hill House

And…..whatever walked there…….walked alone..

(Movie..“The Haunting” 1963)

The evening was so ebony one could feel it and the winds howled and hurled all over.

He was a Dark and stormy Knight…

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…nah, that will never go anywhere.