#2275: A Darker and Stormier Night

Sep 17, 2022
“It was a dark and stormy night.” In his neverending quest to make the puzzler ‘less lousy’ each week, Ray decides to appropriate the consensus pick for ‘worst opening line of a novel’, penned in the 1800s by Edward B Lytton, for this week’s puzzler offering with Tommy helping to make it a bit darker and stormier. Check it out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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