08 April 2008
It Was Possibly A Dark and Stormy Night
It was a dark and stormy night.
I know that is a terribly clichéd way to commence a tale, but it also happens to be fact in this instance. It was a dark and stormy night. There was darkness, there was a storm and it was the night-time; thus all three of the crucial elements of a dark and stormy night were indeed present.
What else could I say in these circumstances? I suppose I could deploy rather more florid terms, and claim that the night was ‘bereft of light’ and that the ‘wind howled like a dog with its knackers trapped in a door’, but I fear that is rather too much. We are all busy people, and therefore our story-telling needs to be succinct and to the point, so we can move on through the tale quickly and resume our day-to-day business of rutting and stuffing our faces with processed meats.
Bugger me! I have already wasted two perfectly good paragraphs on my opening line. This is getting none of us anywhere, you know.
So: it was a dark and stormy night.
Actually, now I think about it, it was not really that stormy. There were strong winds bellowing through the tress, that is for certain. But I do not recall them being particularly vigourous. Maybe they had enough force to knock a gentle-man’s hat from atop his head, but I do not think they were in any danger of lifting the roofs from houses, or upturning carriages, or throwing livestock about the place as if they were rag-dolls.
So: it was a dark and rather windy (but not too windy) night.
Of course, when I say ‘dark’ I do not mean to infer that it was pitch-black outside. It was dark, of that I am certain, but I distinctly remember the moon shining full and bright, and besides which the Likely Estate is well-equipped with many outside light fittings, which were all working perfectly. That fact alone only serves to reinforce the point that it could not have been a very stormy night, else they’d have probably been blown out, or torn free from their fixtures.
So: it was a slightly dark but well-lit and rather windy (but not too windy) night.
Was it night time? Or would it be more accurate to state that it was late-evening? Where does one draw the line between evening and full-on night-time, I wonder? Is there a specific hour where evening becomes night-time, and if so what hour is it?
Hmm. This is rather more problematic than I had imagined…
- Lord Likely.
- Get on with the ruddy story, man!
- Please, do tell us more about this dark and stormy night.
- His lordship should have a wank immediately, to help clear (both) his heads.
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Choose wisely, dear readers…his lordship is in YOUR HANDS now.
His greatness, Lord Likely, has just completed composing an article about masturbation for the entirely excellent British Speak web-log. Go there immediately to read his lordship’s fantastic offering, and discover some brand new euphemisms along the way. Entertaining AND arousing.
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