In the Valleys. My grandfather used do tell it, and I also heard it in Brownies.
It was a dark and stormy night. The rain was coming down in bucketfuls. And the captain said to the mate, "I want to tell you a story.
It was a dark and stormy night... etc.
I also heard the same one with Antonio instead of the mate from a friend from Leicestershire when I was in University, but a mutual friend from Surrey had never heard either.
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winterfish
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Date: 2011-10-22 11:47 am (UTC)It was a dark and stormy night.
The rain was coming down in bucketfuls.
And the captain said to the mate,
"I want to tell you a story.
It was a dark and stormy night... etc.
I also heard the same one with Antonio instead of the mate from a friend from Leicestershire when I was in University, but a mutual friend from Surrey had never heard either.