# Dark & Stormy:  The 2006 Bulwer-Lytton Winners

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The [2006 winners](http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2006.htm) of the annual [Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest](http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/) have been announced.

The winner is good (as such things are measured in this situation), but I have to say my favorite is one of the pun entries:

_“Herr Professor Doktor Weiss’ reputation was made when he conclusively proved the fraudulency of the Mayan codex that claimed to show that that ancient people knew the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter to an exactitude unknown until modern times, in his article, “Bye, Bye, Mesoamerican Pi.””_

Brilliant! 😃