On Tuesday, the annual Bulwer-Lytton literary parody prize went to an opening sentence containing a burrito, an angel and a shovel.

Retired mechanical designer Jim Guigli of California was proclaimed winner of the contest, which challenges entrants to submit their worst opening sentence of an imaginary novel.

The opening line of Guigli's entrant read, "Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you've had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean."

Guigli's determination to succeed was shown in that he submitted 60 entries into the competition.

Guigli said, "my motivation for entering the contest was to find a constructive outlet for my dementia."

The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest was started in 1982 by the English Department at San Jose State University to honor the Victorian novelist who opened his 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" with what were to become the immortal words, "It was a dark and stormy night."

Stuart Vasepuru from Scotland was the runner-up in 2006 as he played with one of the most famous pieces of dialog from the Clint Eastwood movie, "Dirty Harry."

It read; "I know what you're thinking, punk," hissed Wordy Harry to his new editor, "you're thinking, 'Did he use six superfluous adjectives or only five?' - and to tell the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement; but being as this is English, the most powerful language in the world, whose subtle nuances will blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' - well do you, punk?"