A Dark And Stormy Night

[jellymillion]

Runner-up from the Vile Puns section of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest:

As Jeffrey Hicks, the event safety coordinator for the Renaissance Festival finished posting the revised standards for weaponry, he thought of the day an unleashed dog wandered onto the jousting field, causing the rider from Indianapolis to stop short, impaling himself

Comments

[timprov]

His obsessive attention to the most inconsequential of miniscule details, to the detriment of the important and relevant, will no doubt be as much of a joy to them as it has been to us.

You mean "minuscule."

[jellymillion]

So I did.

I wondered: it looked wrong but the spell-checker seemed OK with it. Seems like my mis-spelling is widely-enough applied to be defined in its own right, but this (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/miniscule) seems fairly authoritative as to the derivation. So I'm off to change it now.