It was a dark and stormy night!!

Does anybody remember in the Peanuts cartoon, the running theme with Snoopy as the novelist with chronic writers block? He would sit down in front of his typewriter to write the next great novel and could always only get as far as the first line "It was a dark and stormy night". Well I've come to the conclusion that it wasn't writers block at all.... I think he lived in Eureka and dark stormy nights were all that he knew.