Move over Snoopy - competition!

Dom writes:

To honour Edward Bulwer-Lytton who wrote "It was a dark and stormy night..." the State University of California holds an annual Bulwer-Lytton contest to match his classic sentence. Among the 2003 entries were:

As a scientist Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it.

Just beyond the Narrows, the river widens.

Stanislaus Smedley, a man always on the cutting edge of narcissism, was about to give his body to a sex-change surgeon to become the woman he loved.