A New Meme

[filkertom]

Scarfed from dubheach:

1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.

5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

"He even knows how to read."

(It happened to be a chapter beginning, so I didn't count the title & subtitle. But there was a quote at the beginning as well, so I counted that. The best part, to me, is that none of you have the slightest hope of intuiting the book. I do not say this in challenge. I'll even post it later, for fun. But none of you will get it.

(I love having books like that.)

Comments

[netpositive.livejournal.com]

Knowing some of your interests, I'd be tempted to guess _Tietam Brown_ by Mick Foley. :)

Actually, I don't own that one yet -- I should get it

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

By comparison to the actual source, that book's not only mainstream, it's a well-beloved classic.

Here's mine

[janet-coburn.livejournal.com]

"Teilhard's slip occurs in his description of the second Piltdown find."

[skipjim.livejournal.com]

Delighted with himself he danced along until he came to the village street.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

For example, show a reader the screen that is displayed after a successful completion of the step, or describe the screen.

[the_rck]

::sighs:: The nearest book to me has about 15 pages. It's a Winnie-the-Pooh board book. Once I eliminate Delia's books... Hm. Think I need a measuring tape to be sure. It might be one of the GURPS books (all shelved together and about equidistant from where I sit) or one of the other game books on the shelf above them (the shelf below is Delia's). Possibly the phonebook is closer. So very dull...

On a completely different topic-- I have an online friend who's interested in finding out more about cons, what it's like to attend one, what to expect, and so on to ease her anxiety before she actually tries going to one. I was wondering do you know of any FAQs or similar things I could point her to? (She's not local, so I can't simply drag her to a con and show her.)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

You're actually pretty warm with that first guess.

Re: cons -- this page (http://www.locksley.com/neofans/) seems to have potential (along with a lot of banner links, but ya deal...).

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

The closest book to me is a programming language manual. It doesn't have a page 123, so I will go with page 12-3.

NOTE: Selecting a mode in the Mode Tree also makes that mode the Logic Editor's current mode.

This would've been so much better if I was working from home again today.

[ixias.livejournal.com]

The best way to shut up the taunter is to hit him with a quick thrust.

Answering while sitting at the computer may alter your results. :)

[unkbar.livejournal.com]

See the similar usage of ACTION_EVENTMASK in MenuItem.disableEvents().

[ladyjeanetta.livejournal.com]

"The Banshee always cries for the O'Briens."

[ororo.livejournal.com]

"Though--you're right."

(I've had this meme in my journal recently, so just answering here)

[arensb.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure which book is closest (I assume that dictionaries and phone books don't count); it's a tossup. It's either

finger is sometimes smart enough to find users from only their first name or a portion of their name.

or

Thus Ayers (1968, p. 5) sees nothing wrong in speaking of what is "necessary or unavoidable;" Wiggins (1973, pp. 42-43) proposes to "abbreviate" the expression of "causal or historical tensed modality" as "inevitable at t," thus helping himself to all the connotations of inevitability for the price of an abbreviation; and Chisholm (1961, p. 158) espouses (as one horn of a dilemma) the claim that if acts "have sufficient causal conditions they are not avoidable."

[huskiebear.livejournal.com]

When DNA is in short supply, the problem of attaining adequate concentrations of blunt ends can be ameliorated by including in the reaction mixture substances that increase macro-molecular crowding or substances that cause DNA molecules to condense into aggregates.

The scary part? That is actually a useful idea that I previously hadn't thought of...

[naja-pallida.livejournal.com]

"So, praying to God to help him repair the wrong he had done his people, Evnissyen leaped into the cauldron alive, and with the breaking of his heart, destroyed it."

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're reading the same thing I am! Only in a different translation. With different page numbers.

[naja-pallida.livejournal.com]

Its a book I picked up at a yard sale a few months ago called 'Minute Myths' by Marie Schubert. It goes over various cultural myths from around the world and describes them in a single page. An interesting book, I grabbed it because I'm working on an article on reptile myths from around the world. :)

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Oh! Not *quite* the same thing, then. But close. :)

[rollick.livejournal.com]

It's a recipe book, and page 123 consists entirely of an illustration. Page 122, the facing page, has exactly five sentences on it, and the fifth is "Serve hot." Not very exciting.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

...it could be.

[tonemangoldfarb.livejournal.com]

"When the Lord does the tallying up, then everybody is going to be in for a big surprise!"

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

"It is easy for you to achieve that, son," his father told him.

How dull. I was hoping it'd be one of the sentences that included a bazillion weird Welsh names. I'm rereading the Mabinogi right now. Maybe I'll go find someone else's meme that has different page numbers and sentence numbers. :)

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

"So remember, even if you have only one line of dialogue in the middle of 60-seconds worth of copy, you still must stay "in the scene", follow the script, and not become a spectator."

Gee... It all puts life in perpective, somehow.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

There aren't five sentences on the page. However, here's the fifth measure.

For The Curious

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

The book I picked from is Storm Tribe (http://www.glorantha.com/products/1310.html).

[paltergo.livejournal.com]

"The jeune ecole believed weapons determined tactics and that technology, properly used, rendered historical analysis irrelevant."

[janet-coburn.livejournal.com]

Mine was The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould.

[unkbar.livejournal.com]

Er, "The Java Class Libraries, Second Edition, Volume 2" by Chan and Lee.

Hey, I was at work, okay?

Feeling whimsical

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

If I posted this in my own journal, a startling number of my friendslist would know what it was, I think.

"I'll never telephone him again as long as I live."

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Two books stacked atop one another.

First book: " 'Yes, Sepfather?' she managed at last, and the child in her arms stopped struggling in surprise."

Second book: Full-spread illo, Using p. 124 yields " 'That was a very beautiful sunset,' said Milo, walking to the podium."

I'd be shocked if a great number didn't know book 2; some might knkow book 1, but not nearly so many.

[isolde-deely.livejournal.com]

"Such a form, called a 'ghost body,' is immune to fatigue and physical harm, and it can fly at great speeds."

[nubianamy.livejournal.com]

"He was handsome, not the heartbreaking beauty of some of the sidhe, but striking."