“What's on page 56?”
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Rules: Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence here. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST. - Shey
"The art direction and design follows on from this with simple, clean layouts, a subtle color palette, and the use of Helvetica and Univers typefaces." -- Innovation in Magazine Design - Shey
So, at any given time there are at least five copies of my database that are no more than three days old or so. - Rob Diana
In other words, DTML uses tags to do its work. - Brian Sullivan
Exodus 9:25 - "All over Egypt the hail struck down every living thing in the open, including all the people and the animals." - tehKenny
Genesis 43:7 Do you have another brother? - Jasmin Smith
shit, mine only has 54 pages :( - ♣genieyclo♣
do second-closest books count? because there's this huge book right next to that one... - ♣genieyclo♣
@genieyclo use the next closest :) - Shey
If you select the Do no respond to unknown client computers option, the RIS server will only respond to prestaged clients. - Eric @ CS Techcast
"The children waste 30 minutes dawdling and 10 minutes arguing." (I can't believe this sentence is in a book on C# programming.) - Morton Fox
"If you don't have a financial safety net, you can end up selling an investment that you've worked hard for." --Investing For Dummies 1997 - ♫ Rahsheen™
"She looked around rather lustly." - ♣genieyclo♣
Michael descended the last two steps as if sliding on a track, her blade glaring savage green-white as she cut air. (Whiskey & Water by Elizabeth Bear) - Nine
No books here at work! :( - Rochelle
"In Battle, there are not more than two methods of attack- the direct and indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers." - Aaron Krug
"It's the Scarlet Centurion!" - Jason Kaneshiro
Nahmanides, in the year 1250, described the process with uncanny accuracy: the initial creation produced an entity so thin it had no substance to it. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
"The book begins with a section titled 'How to Look Things Up,' which includes a reference to an online index at <www.gregg.com>." - Micah Wittman
As Philip W. Metzger points out in his classic *Managing a Programming Project*, poor planning boils to the surface as a source of problems more often than any other problem (Metzger 1981). - Glen Campbell
"aturdimiento m. confusion, bewilderment" (the nearest book was my Spanish/English medical dictionary) - Shannon Jiménez
"But as of now, the Toys "R" Us Web site hasn't yet trapped into any of these behaviors." - Groundswell. (It's the only book on my desk @ work) - Haggis (Sean)
"She ruined my lunch." - Yolanda ♥s Nuttycakes
I googleized this challenge (1st result, 5th sentence), which came up with "* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions." http://www.google.com/search?h... - Micah Wittman
Oh yes, she thought as she emptied her boots, and she'd got two silver sixpences too. (nb: I have photographic evidence that this was the nearest book, should you require it) - Slippy Lane
"At the close the motto chord gives way to pure F-sharp major, which, in light of what has gone before, sounds bizarre and surreal." - Alex Ross' "The Rest is Noise." - George Kelly
"I've had an accident... Mialem wypadek." - Logical Extremes
"But they were at the base of a palatial city which glowed at them and filled their eyes with gold light." - Abby Martin
"With an undresser, they take their clothes off at every possible moment." - Far
"More than 7 thousand tons of usable medical supplies are discarded in U.S Hospitals and Clinics every day. - Terence Washington
For more information about dealing with pipeline input in your own scripts, functions, and script blocks, see Recipe 10.7, "Access Pipeline Input." (From "Windows PowerShell Cookbook" by Lee Holmes). - Tommy Williams
Remember the Good Samaritan. - David HC Soul
Calvin "Any monsters under my bed tonight??" /Under Bed "Nope!" "No!" "Uh-uh." /Calvin "Well there'd better not be! I'd hate to have to torch one with my flame thrower!" / Hobbes "You have a flame thrower?" Calvin "They lie. I lie" - Steve Craft
The closest book is my husband's Demosthenis Orationes--In GREEK. I can't do it. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
http://friendfeed.com/e/274a94... - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
"From the standpoint of methodology, the image of a unified, rational state is a realist assumption, not a description of the actual world." No, I don't have kids. - Michelle Darnell
It's a God damn, well I declare, have you seen the like? -- Grateful Dead Anthology. - Thomas Hawk
Grabbed the nearest book... Turns out page 56 is BLANK! Blank! What are the odds? - Carlos Granier-Phelps
"Whether a verb is used to link words or to express action depends on its meaning in a sentence." Holt Handbook - Mastering the California Standards in English-Language Conventions. - Leo Laporte
This is what the Lord has commanded, 'Gather of it every man as much as he should eat; you shall take an omer apeice according to the number of persons each of you has in his tent." - NASB Bible - Hal
"The general formula is now figure dependent so applicable to whatever arrangement of letters as labels to resistor elements." - The ECE Handbook, Excel Academic Council 2007 - Philip V.
"Apa ini buku saudara?" (Is this your book? In Indonesian) - David Adam
" 'Right, who's causing it - who knows what could happen.' " - Grave Peril, Jim Butcher - Chris Maughan
Motors require no maintenance, and should operate indefinitely without attention. - ThePicMan
