Book meme

  • Grab the nearest book.
  • Open it to page 56.
  • Find the fifth sentence.
  • Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

“One drop-down list shows all of the objects referenced in the code module, while the other drop-down list shows the procedures associated with each object.” – Using Visual Basic for Applications 5 Special Edition

I just read this from somebody’s blog posting and thought this would be a fun thread. What is in YOUR closest book?

A very small one. It only has 48 pages rotfl!

“He must state that he is not a disbeliever in or opposed to organized
government, that he is not a member of or affiliated with any
organization so opposed, and that he is not a polygamist.”

(these are part of the requirements for an alien to become a citizen
of the USA…from the book: The Constitution of the United States,
Its Sources and Applications; A hand book for citizens and public
officials. by Thomas James Norton
, Thirty-third printing, 1971

yes, this is fun.


decorated_warrior

Hey dragonbite:

>- Grab the nearest book.
>- Open it to page 56.
>- Find the fifth sentence.

“Each division has a different default format.”


Kim (5/22/2009 7:55:06 AM Mountain)

On 5/22/2009 9:16 AM, brucecadieux wrote:
> A very small one. It only has 48 pages rotfl!
>
>
“Daddy Dearest would have us both whipped within an inch of our lives if
we so much as looked nastily at his precious grand-daughter. He’s always
been soft on her.” - Simon R. Green, Hell To Pay

I did 2 lines since both were in the 5th sentence. The 2nd sentence
actually started at the end of the 5th line but it sounded to wierd
alone…lol.

dragonbite adjusted his/her AFDB on Friday 22 May 2009 14:16 to write:

>
> - Grab the nearest book.
> - Open it to page 56.
> - Find the fifth sentence.
> - Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the
> intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

<<snip>>

The A-10, and it was very close to solution, with production not much more
than a year in the future, was a rocket that could be fired from Peenümund
with colossal head of explosive, and land on Boston, New York or Washington.

>>pins<<

Space, James A Michener.

Well you did say nearest, was the closest on the bookshelf, must re-read
that, is a good book IIRC.


Mark

Nullus in verba
Nil illigitimi carborundum

Hey kgroneman:

>“Each division has a different default format.”

HTML - The difinitive guide


Kim (5/22/2009 12:13:43 PM Mountain)

“No!” A dozen men shouted out in answer,and Rafen was one of them,speaking without thinking,something bright and powerful flashed in his brother’s eyes, and he was roused by it.

Blood Angels DEUS ENCARMINE Warhammer 40k

Andy

kgroneman adjusted his/her AFDB on Friday 22 May 2009 19:14 to write:

> Hey kgroneman:
>
>>“Each division has a different default format.”
>
> HTML - The difinitive guide
>

Swot!

:wink:


Mark

Nullus in verba
Nil illigitimi carborundum

> I did 2 lines since both were in the 5th sentence. The 2nd sentence
> actually started at the end of the 5th line but it sounded to wierd
> alone…lol.

hmmmm…he didn’t ask for lines he asked for sentences…know the
difference?


decorated_warrior

My dear boy," said old Partridge, in great distress - “my dear boy, if I sold that stock now I’d lose my position; and then where would I be?”

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, by Edwin Lefevre.

The bombs were made using equipment easily available from local hardware stores.

Unfortunately page 56 is a photo page, so there was only one sentence on it, the caption of the photo. So strictly speaking it’s the first and only sentence. :frowning:

Granta 103, main feature The Rise of the British Jihad

“Did you listen to what I had to say?” The smile had faded from her affectionately stern face. -My own

The mammoth beast burst through, ripping up the street as he rose.
-Godzilla- Based on the screenplay written by Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerinch

“You can buy Stainless steel spades, which do tend to slip through clay soils easily but an ordinary spade still does the job”.

-Vegetable Growing Month by Month. John Harrison

On Fri May 22 2009 08:16 am, dragonbite wrote:

>
> - Grab the nearest book.
> - Open it to page 56.
> - Find the fifth sentence.
> - Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the
> intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
>
>
<snip>

But then, by these men’s own confession, they cannot be be innate; since they
are not assented to by those that understand not the terms; nor by a great
part who do understand them, but have yet never heard never heard nor thought
of those propositions; which I think is at least one half of mankind.

“Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding”, Vol. 1, Dover, NY 1959

( My computer room doubles as my library and by pure chance the philosophy
books are shelved closed to this machine)


P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

“There are several different theoretical procedures to use in these extremely dangerous situations, which we won’t go into here.”
Diver Down - Real World Scuba Accidents and how to Avoid Them, Michael R. Ange

If you didn’t get it in three, or even with a composite, then you might as well forget it. (Jimmy Page)

GUITARLEGENDS 25 Great Guitarist Interviews

Geoff

Go to File>New and select the Templates tab.

-Some overpriced magazine I regret having bought.

Is anyone going to admit to having a trashy romance novel close by?..


Kim (5/26/2009 11:16:18 AM Mountain)