For your own sake, stop reading now.

It was a dark and stormy night...


Okay, this is obviously a Snoopy reference.


Although everyone's favourite Beagle did begin many, if not all, of his literary exercises with the sentence, "It was a dark and stormy night..." that wasn't the intent here. It references a story I heard this morning and had to punish/share with you. Here we go:

• It was a dark and stormy night.
  
  The captain sat down with his crew and said, "Arrr...nights like this remind me of an old sea tale. He began..."It was a dark and stormy night...
  
  The captain sat down with his crew and said, "Arrr...nights like this remind me of an old sea tale. He began...

Okay...we get the joke.

• "It was a dark and stormy night...
  
  The captain sat down with his crew and said, "Arrr...nights like this remind me of an old sea tale. He began..."It was a dark and stormy night...
  
  The captain sat down with his crew and said, "Arrr...nights like this remind me of an old sea tale. He began...
  
  

Please stop...

• ..."It was a dark and stormy night...

I'm leaving.

• The captain sat down with his crew and said, "Arrr...nights like this remind me of an old sea tale. He began...