That story was a corker.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A corker is something very special … almost one of a kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight Lexicon » On The Red Carpet: Interviews With Booboo Stewart and Charlie Bewley] Reference

Cowen & Co. analyst Cai von Rumohr says Boeing is selling itself short with a too-low guidance after a "corker" of a first quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boeing's Stellar Q1 Deserves Higher Guidance] Reference

Sollicker Somewhat equivalent Something excessive. to "corker".    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Everyday Folk and Dawn] Reference

The story will is a "corker" (a good story), tweeted the following: iPhone update.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cult of Mac] Reference

He told her that she was a "corker," a "dream," and "one sweet song," and that the picture did not do her justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

"corker" which Spencer brought off in the second round, and, again, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories] Reference

Great light show, and the final song was a corker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gig report] Reference

Still a corker of a story and well worth watching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quatermass II] Reference

The sixguns appearing in 1836 was the real corker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man from the Alamo] Reference

It's a corker - and a real shame it isn't on the DVD set.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Directors Small Films: The Coen Brothers Short Film ‘World Cinema’ | /Film] Reference

That was the corker for me and I had a talk with the boss.    From Wordnik.com.  [wilberteets Diary Entry] Reference

Mr. PROVENZA: I tell you, when that happens, it's a corker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Air Force Academy Superintendent Plays Not My Job] Reference

This Universal set is a grab-bag of movies with one corker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Giltz: Is There Finally Some Oscar Hope for Star Trek?"] Reference

It got better, I thought, and the final episode was a corker.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference

In California, a real corker is fermenting in the legislature.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2006] Reference

Another corker by Hamish on Wednesday, Mar 7, 2007 at 2: 41: 26 AM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Words That Change Lives] Reference

It's not often that I agree with you, but that comment is a corker!!!!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Camp: McCain Running "A Campaign Not Worthy Of The Office He's Seeking"] Reference

As far as soundtracks go for the end of the world, this one's a corker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theater: London Summer Roundup] Reference

At the outset the experienced reader knows this is going to be a corker.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

"That Mutt and Jeff routine Ahssiel and I did ... wasn't that a corker?".    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Baraboo]

Yeah, the sphinx and rakshasa hitting us both at once was a real corker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Curse of the Crimson Throne “Escape From Old Korvosa” Session Summary Posted « Geek Related] Reference

What a gig to - long versions of old favs, Mere Pseud was a corker finish.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNews] Reference

And a corker of a review for Vellum, which is, according to Steve Birt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rendezvous With Ramblings] Reference

WRT that guy, I thought he overlooked a real corker: To be honest with you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today at Stanford Law School: "How Blogs Impact Legal Discourse."] Reference

"Ten years ago, say! you must have been a corker -- regular 'Terry McGovern'.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference

I'm a regular corker at all sorts of tricks, from apple-pie beds to booby traps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference

Bruce Sterling's speech to the Long Now Foundation on the Singularity is a corker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: July 11, 2004 - July 17, 2004 Archives] Reference

And today, nature's premenstrual tension broke and we had a corker of a summer storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [17th February '04] Reference

And finally - if you can take it - this corker has both Blears and Brown gurning to camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [The lady is for tubing] Reference

Tomorrow night's special two hour NOVA, "The Bible's Buried Secrets," looks to be a corker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Programs I Like to Watch on the TV Machine] Reference

"Ain't you a corker!" she said admiringly and, waving her hand again to him, ran to the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

Today I got myself the Marshall Suite, and he's only gone and made another corker of a record!.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNews - anecdotes] Reference

Man, this makes me want to go to the Manhattan Vintage show and look her up--Elisa's a corker!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elisa of Mad Fashionista's Plus Size Boutique - A Dress A Day] Reference

I hopes you enjoyed em and As how that stiff necked old corker your beak -- won't never find out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acton's Feud A Public School Story] Reference

The corker was this scorching investigative query: "Mr. President, how is your faith guiding you?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Moyers Exposes the Lapdog Media] Reference