"I know no one will admit it, but a lot does hang on a name. Spoopins Light Calvelry just doesn't have a heroic ring no matter how you try or what it does."
I am writing again. Any one have a third sentence to go after those two?
for that matter, have the Bulwer Lytton contest winners been published this year?

"So we moved the whole unit to Boondoggle."

Isn't the Bulwer Lytton contest the one that's the take on "It was a dark and stormy night."? I've never known when that was, but always enjoy reading the winning entries when they are published in Reader's Digest.

The contest is to ask people to write the worst first sentences for a novel. It is great stuff on a blue day. thank you for the thrid sentence. what sort of country is Boondoggle? what might be the flora, fauna and topography? and for that matter what is the brigade going to do?

So I guess I was right about the contest. I just read some of the winning entries in last months(?), Reader's Digest, but they never say when the contest is, so maybe it's last years winners. But very entertaining to say the least.

Boondoggle is the same as FUBAR which is Fouled Up Beyond All Repair, only more so. So that makes it a place of stinky air, rotten leadership, flat land, stupid whatever, and for all the rest just use your imagination.

Boondoggle? Not at all. It's a fantastic place. Extremely high per capita income. Gilded buildings. High-speed monorails, with no crowds (half-dozen occupants per car max).

Only government officials and CEOs are allowed there, and it's all expenses paid (by taxpayers and low-level workers).

I guess that fubar is the ghetto for boondoggle. Maybe Spoopins Light horse is there to guard boondoggle from the people in fubar?
here is the contest results link http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2009.htm

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