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malthaussen

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12. Reminds me of the story of the doorman at an exclusive London club.

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2025, 12:13 PM

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A veteran of WWI, after fifty years serving as the dooman to one of London's most exclusive gentlemen's clubs, the board offered him an attractive retirement package. He refused, sniffing "If I had known the position wasn't permanent, I would never have taken it."

I'm surprised no one can be found to take over the B-L contest. It is an institution, after all.

-- Mal

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I have very sad news to report. The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest* is no more. [View all] niyad Tuesday OP

Aw man! I always enjoyed those! n/t Coventina Tuesday #1

As did I. niyad Tuesday #5

And you could have been a contender Dear_Prudence Tuesday #2

Thank you for that lovely compliment. One tries one's humble best. niyad Tuesday #6

Curiously, Bulwar-Lytton's intro followed Hemingway's famous dictum nuxvomica Tuesday #3

More like hemingway copied him? niyad Tuesday #8

That's a genuine shame. Paladin Tuesday #4

As will I. niyad Tuesday #9

I regret I never got to enter my novel's opening sentence nuxvomica Tuesday #7

It is a shame that you did not enter it! niyad Tuesday #10

I had not heard of this. Sounds hilarious. Disappointing to see it go. electric_blue68 Tuesday #11

You can check out the website, as the whole contest is archived. niyad Tuesday #13

Cool! I will. TY. electric_blue68 Tuesday #16

Reminds me of the story of the doorman at an exclusive London club. malthaussen Tuesday #12

Awww, thank you for that delightful story. niyad Tuesday #14

I misremembered as an opening line, "There is a fort in the South..." - turned out to be a few lines later. UTUSN Tuesday #15

Thank you for these, as I neither read the book, nor saw the movie. niyad Tuesday #17