1. Grab the nearest book.

Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:44 AM Original message

1. Grab the nearest book.

Edited on Mon May-03-04 12:55 AM by Mobius 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply This was mine "Her own desire, that instead of wearing those narrow jeans and that fluidly-styled creamy beige shirt, Julian Hadey should be utterly and beautifully nude."

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neverborn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:46 AM Response to Original message

1. K

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions The creature's new form is ethereal and thus immune to even the most potent physical attacks and most magical attacks (except, for example, force attacks) by nonethereal creatures.

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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:49 AM Response to Reply #1

4. HMMM

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions. But that was not so surprising in a Druid's hall.

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Mattforclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:46 AM Response to Original message

2. "Ensuring that the ulama would continue to refrain from political

involvement, a 1950 conference convened by Ayatollah Burujirdi in Qumm adopted a prohibition on political activity by ulama and agreed to withdraw clerical status from offenders." 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions

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Eye and Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:48 AM Response to Original message

3. "In these visions, dictated over a long period,

Edited on Mon May-03-04 01:40 AM by Eye and Monkey Muhammad presented a cosmology of breathtaking simplicity, rounded, complete, and eminently satisfying.

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flamingyouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:49 AM Response to Original message

5. I'm game

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions "The depression of the 1930s was hard on us, especially now, without the means Stanton had been bringing in. But the family members remained devoted to one another, and life went on."

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Fenris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:49 AM Response to Original message

6. ok

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions "Coming as this does from an acknowledged leader of the advocates of the measure, it may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the amendment."

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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:51 AM Response to Original message

7. Well I kinda feel like the dummy of the bunch

x( Damn honesty

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Indiana_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:13 AM Response to Reply #7

33. Hey, everybody needs some "fluff" now and then! n/t

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ForrestGump (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:51 AM Response to Original message

8. Didn't work

'twas a picture

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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:52 AM Response to Reply #8

9. then pick the next page and dont be so retentive

Edited on Mon May-03-04 12:52 AM by Mobius x(

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ForrestGump (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:56 AM Response to Reply #9

17. Okay, though it just doesn't seem right...

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves... (the picture was of the Jabberwocky)

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opiate69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:52 AM Response to Original message

10. not an easy read..

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions This far more serious threat was resisted with alacrity by the Venetian pope Eugenius IV and his chief spokesman, Giuliano Cardinal Cesarini, both of whom were to be closely connected with Balkan crusading in the 1440s.

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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:54 AM Response to Reply #10

13. sounds interesting

:shrug:

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opiate69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:56 AM Response to Reply #13

18. A biography of the real Vlad Dracula..

Dracula: Prince of Many Faces... very interesting... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316286567/qid=1083563752/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7865694-9108644?v=glance&s=books

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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:00 AM Response to Reply #18

23. No wonder I liked it

Vlad Tsepesh(sp), right? I like his castle. Not Braun, but the one way back in the mountains, the decrepit one. Do you know its name?

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opiate69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:07 AM Response to Reply #23

30. Yep.. Tsepesh....

Although, Tsepesh is the Romanian word for "Impaler".. the name Dracula actually means "Son of the Dragon". His father, Vlad Dracul, was so named because he was ordained into the Orthodox church's elite "Order of the Dragon". I belive the castle you're speaking of was simply Castle Dracula. Located in Tsirgovistye...although, there's another castle ruin on the river Arges, which I can't seem to find a name for.. that could be the one too...

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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:53 AM Response to Original message

11. Once, he ran his neck far out, cautiously, and almost touched the boy.

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions 'The Trumpet of the Swan'

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ForrestGump (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:57 AM Response to Reply #11

19. ET!!!!

Or, allegedly, perhaps Michael Jackson?

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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:54 AM Response to Original message

12. At one point...

Edited on Mon May-03-04 01:02 AM by BrotherBuzz Barbasol brandished its lawyers ominously over the jingle lines NO BRUSH / NO LATHER / NO RUB-IN. on edit: I guess I can't follow instructions very well! on second edit: did the rules change between my original post and first edit? weird.

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Donkeyboy75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:55 AM Response to Original message

14. "The total electronic energy obtained by summing the energies of the

Edited on Mon May-03-04 12:56 AM by Donkeyboy75 occupied orbitals gives the calculated molecular energy." Yee-ha! 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions

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Endangered Specie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:55 AM Response to Original message

15. Democrats announce for the presidency - ...

Four democrats announce they would run for the presidency in 2004. 2004 world almanac and book of facts 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions

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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:55 AM Response to Original message

16. Here's the sentence.

I think everyone "gets" the instructions. After the boy's words he heard a thing but his own screaming, went past the cop and leaned over the hot metal of the hood of the police trunk, his face and his wet arm on it. from Coming through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

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Lauren2882 (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:57 AM Response to Original message

20. Because of this more rudimentary structure...

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply "Because of this more rudimentary structure, the emotional brain processes information in a much more primitive way than the cognitive brain, but it is faster and more nimble at ensuring our survival."

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orthogonal (424 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:34 AM Response to Reply #20

42. What book is that?

Something by Damasio or Gazzaniga ?

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Lauren2882 (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:14 PM Response to Reply #42

121. Instinct to Heal

It's Instinct to Heal, by David Servan-Schreiber. It's a book about dealing with depression.

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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:44 PM Response to Reply #121

126. Any good? (nt)

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Lauren2882 (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 09:01 PM Response to Reply #126

135. Haven't read it

I actually haven't started reading it yet -- it was just sitting on my table where my laptop is :)

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ott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:58 AM Response to Original message

21. From: First Spanish Reader - A Beginner's Dual-Language Book

Edited on Mon May-03-04 12:58 AM by ott 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions This is robbery!

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toddzilla (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:59 AM Response to Original message

22. here goes

In the mid 1800s,after a close study of the experimental work of the english physicist michael faraday, the scottich physicist james clerk maxwell succeeded in uniting electricity and magnetism in the framework of the electromagnetic field. the elegant universe, brian greene.

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Indiana_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:01 AM Response to Original message

24. Here:

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply This was mine "Agriculture entailed the deliberate simplification of ecosystems."

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Lauren2882 (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:03 AM Response to Reply #24

26. I like that sentence

simple and to-the-point while still conveying a big idea.

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Indiana_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:08 AM Response to Reply #26

32. It's from Richard Heinberg--The Party's Over

about oil depletion! Heavy stuff about ecosystems, ecology, chemistry and physics in the first chapter! I want to get to the good stuff but its good review. I feel like I'm in college all over again! lol

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toddzilla (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:02 AM Response to Original message

25. someone needs to do this over at freeperville..

you'd have to allow them to leave the room, or perhaps go to a neighbor to actually find a book though.

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Lauren2882 (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:05 AM Response to Reply #25

27. That's a good idea!

I don't have an account there, or I might. Any takers? And bring back the findings! (It's almost like we're talking about doing anthropological fieldwork.)

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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:16 AM Response to Reply #27

35. I would, but I dont lurk

I tell them who I am.

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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:05 AM Response to Reply #25

29. Freeper Entry:

ADAMSON Brenda 223 McClellan Dr...........484-8772

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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 03:30 AM Response to Reply #29

53. LOL

Nice... LOLOLOL

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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 05:46 AM Response to Reply #25

64. Or there'd be 200 posts, but all from the same ten books

by Coulter, Limbaugh, Lehaye, etc. "Hey - I have that quote, too! Here's mine!"

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Bossy Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:05 AM Response to Original message

28. Page 23 is a picture of the head of a peat-bog burial victim,

Tollund Man, Denmark. Can I try the second closest book? It doesn't have 5 sentences on p. 23 either. The last sentence runs as follows: So even in the case of Napoleon, whom Michelet intensely dislikes and whose rule he systematically belittles, we see him suddenly, under favorable conditions, expand to a moment of greatness at the time of his campaign in Egypt. 3d closest has a fifth sentence on p. 23, except for the whole predicate part: Bernie's girl. My books are just hostile to the p. 23, 5th sentence search.

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left_wing_literati (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 10:17 AM Response to Reply #28

82. seamus heaney?? n/t

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Bossy Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 10:49 AM Response to Reply #82

86. Presumably Seamus has the same archaeology books that I do n/t

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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:08 AM Response to Original message

31. Okay...

Edited on Mon May-03-04 01:09 AM by Spider Jerusalem "Deputy Sheriff Cogburne shot Toad Morton like a dog on the spot." From: And the Ass Saw the Angel, by Nick Cave (2003 edition published by 2.13.61)

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Rocinante (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:15 AM Response to Original message

34. Ok

But the sentence is pretty long, therefore I left out the instuctions. When the Confederates assailed the retreating Yankees, Custers officers would ride through, shouting and pleading and threatening, and there was general bedlam-bullets in the air, crying children, livestock grown either panicky or balky, creating fearful knots and tangles in the traffic, troopers swearing and women screaming, weaklings here and there falling out by the roadside and watching in despair as the column moved on without them. Sorry but that was the nearest book.

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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:16 AM Response to Original message

36. "He had implanted the first doubt."

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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:19 AM Response to Original message

37. Ok I posted it in freeperville,

but any talk of that place should be directed to my live journal in my sigline links. I wish to respect the rules of DU and not mention that place here. I also posted this to hear what you guys are reading, not a bunch of freepers. Thankx

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durutti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:20 AM Response to Original message

38. 23 and 5?

You must be part of the Illuminati. Anyway... "'The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.'"

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Sufi Marmot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:22 AM Response to Original message

39. Mmmmmm...biohazardous....

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply But the elegant Kalinin proved a master of political intrigue, maneuvering himself from an obscure post as lab chief in Zagorsk into a management job at one of Biopreparat's institutes and then into the director's chair. From Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It - Kanatjan Alibekov, aka Ken Alibek -SM

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foreigncorrespondent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:25 AM Response to Original message

40. Ok...

"Loney's knowledge of Australian shipwrecks was encyclopedic, but unfortunately he cites no reference for the claim."

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orthogonal (424 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:31 AM Response to Original message

41. The nearest, not the most recently read.

Edited on Mon May-03-04 01:37 AM by orthogonal No whole 5th sentence, so the fourth: "The logic of propositions, or propositional calculus, was proposed by George Boole in his book, the Laws of Thought." from J. Patrick Thompson, Data with Semantics: Data Models and Data Management (A very thoughtful examination of what truth is, and how it can be modelled in databases.)

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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:34 AM Response to Original message

43. Scary...

"The Constitution 'squints toward monarchy,' < Patrick > Henry declared." From What Kind of Nation by James F. Simon.

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Systematic Chaos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:39 AM Response to Original message

44. Oooh, this is damn exciting.

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply Kahlan stared up at him. From the Terry Goodkind novel my wife's reading. :P

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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:46 PM Response to Reply #44

129. Yours made me laugh. Thanks. (nt)

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rumguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:39 AM Response to Original message

45. A circle is true and a direction is set forever, a shining golden

line accross the mind.

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Sapphocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:53 AM Response to Original message

46. "When she had said 'Yes'..."

Edited on Mon May-03-04 01:59 AM by Sapphocrat "When she had said 'Yes' in as matter-of-fact a voice as the proposal of marriage had been made to her, Sir John had replied: 'You are a dear,' and that had seemed to her a most ordinary remark." -- Elinor Glyn, Family, 1918 On edit: Bloody typo.

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Kellanved (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:59 AM Response to Original message

47. OK

"There is no distinction in the programming language between aggregation and acquaintance."

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huellewig (700 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 02:17 AM Response to Original message

48. Not Much Content Here.

The film became a great popular and critical success. From: In Our Times, America Since World War II By: Norman L. Rosenberg The clip was from the chapter: Postwar Readjustments, 1946-1953. I hated history in High School, now I love it.

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montana_hazeleyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 02:39 AM Response to Original message

49. here goes...

"Before allowing the body to be removed from the water, the two detectives went down the steep bank to take a look." From "Trace Evidence" by Bruce Henderson (I'm a true crime buff.)

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SmileyBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 02:42 AM Response to Original message

50. "And for the divorced let there be a fair provision."

The Holy Koran, Sura II - The Cow.

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clyrc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 03:20 AM Response to Original message

51. from one of my husband's language books

"Remember, however, that ratio scales are seldom applicable to language studies." Fascinating stuff! From the neaest book that's mine; "The responibility lay with the visitor who'd come knocking on his door the night before."

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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 03:27 AM Response to Original message

52. "Father, who certainly encouraged people to believe that he

had spent time at some great and ancient European university, was in fact only a high school graduate." Deadeye Dick, Kurt Vonnegut.

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radfringe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 03:55 AM Response to Original message

54. You give them a tiny advantage, they take alot, and then

they take a little more.

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dudeness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 04:06 AM Response to Original message

55. the modern oxford dictionary..

nearest book..

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lazarus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 04:07 AM Response to Original message

56. Heh

Hopefully, I counted right. It's a good sentence, either way, and I skipped a quote in the middle that would have thrown the whole thing into a weird contextual miasma. 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions If history can help answer these questions, then the beginnings of slavery in North America--a continent where we can trace teh coming of the first whites and the first blacks--might supply at least a few clues. Any guesses?

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dudeness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 04:12 AM Response to Reply #56

57. Howard Zinns

a history of America..(or something close to that)

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lazarus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 04:32 AM Response to Reply #57

58. nicely done

A People's History of the United States. Makes me wish I was still in the UK.

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dudeness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 04:37 AM Response to Reply #58

60. a great man Zinn..

I lived in Weymouth for a year or so..great beer..:)

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Misunderestimator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 04:34 AM Response to Original message

59. "They both go down."

Edited on Mon May-03-04 04:37 AM by Misunderestimator So says Richard Armitage in Clarke's Against All Enemies.

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NYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 05:34 AM Response to Original message

61. A miniature blast furnace four feet high was on the

banquet table, and a narrow gauge railroad forty feet long ran round the edge of the table. The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos

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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 05:39 AM Response to Original message

62. After they made love, as he gathered his things together, preparing

to leave, he asked her to sit down. Oh no! I fear I have turned this into a sex thread! Name of Book: Last Year's Jesus Author: Ellen Slezak It's a book of very odd little short stories by a friend of my brother's. :hi: Good morning everyone!

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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 05:44 AM Response to Original message

63. As Helmut Thielicke wrote out of the abyss of a devestated Germany

at the end of WWII: "No man will ever come to the truth and thus to a trustworthy bridge over the abyyss of Nothingness who has not faced doubt, despair and shipwreck . . . He who knows what faith is must also have stodd beneath the baleful eye of that demonic power against which we fling our faith. Technically, that was just one sentence. And I want to add the last sentence to that, since it's so cool: Faith is either a struggle or it is nothing. This is from God & Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross by Douglas John Hall. A brilliant book about the theology of suffering that doesn't go for the easy platitudes of the fundamentalists and rightwing SuperChristian camp.

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SarahB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 07:41 AM Response to Original message

65. Atmavirya is the strength and power of the Self that arise from the...

Edited on Mon May-03-04 07:42 AM by SarahBelle awareness of being one with God.

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Redneck Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:19 AM Response to Original message

66. "It ordered the Secretary of Agriculture...

...to review the areas over the following ten years to determine their suitability or non-suitability for preservation as wilderness." From The Wilderness Act Handbook

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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:28 AM Response to Original message

67. Well, skipping over the phone book, here it is:

"They are timeless truths, higher wisdom that is of all cultures and beyond all cultures." Also skipping over the shelf of dictionaries, software manuals, etc., since they were closest!

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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:41 AM Response to Original message

68. heh

"There's no past, present, or future outside our own mind."

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Misunderestimator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:46 AM Response to Original message

69. "Most work on Iraq stopped for the rest of August...

as Bush and his top advisers left for vacation." Plan of Attack Isn't that sweet? Do I win something? (I admit I already posted the "nearest" book, but this one was underneath it.)

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LibInternationalist (861 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 09:10 AM Response to Original message

70. interesting

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply "Intelligence assets, including 'The Source,' reported Sadat's intention to go to war."

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VelmaD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 09:18 AM Response to Original message

71. "If not normal,...

the test may be regarded as approximate." From p. 23 of "100 Statistical Tests" by Gopal Kanji. :)

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BigMcLargehuge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 09:26 AM Response to Original message

72. mine

But the knowledge of Western technology and defense strategies brought back by its foreign educated students shattered the country's old confidence in Japanese military superiority, leaving it deepy uneasy about the inevitability of victory in its future showdown with the west.

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IronLionZion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 09:37 AM Response to Original message

73. ok

"Given that both the structure and content of a frame are transmitted in the form of individual bits, the data link layer protocols of the destination machine don't really rebuild a frame." from IP Routing Fundamentals (textbook)

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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:50 PM Response to Reply #73

132. Name all the layers of the OSI model and their functions. ;) (nt)

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mac56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 09:39 AM Response to Original message

74. troubling response

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions. "Witness EXCEL Quality Control and USDA inspectors as they evaluate each carcass."

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southpaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 09:45 AM Response to Original message

75. Here ya go...

"He must make these computations so fast that he will be able to "take off" at the crack of the bat."

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nuxvomica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 09:46 AM Response to Original message

76. I'm at work and this is what I found:

"There are two dimensions to these options: functionality and capacity." All the other sentences on that page would've given you some understanding of what the book was about. Not this one, though.

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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 09:47 AM Response to Original message

77. Programming and Interfacing the 6502

AC00-A800 System RAM-SYS6532(U27)(Pages 4021 thru 4-23)

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:08 AM Response to Reply #77

87. I humbly bow towards TrogL's superior vintage geekiness.

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 09:56 AM Response to Original message

78. Gaaa. A Delphi reference book weighing a ton. Oooomph.

"O Projeto chama para si a responsabilidade de gerenciar a aplicação, facilitando o trabalho do programador." Translating: "The Project calls to itself the responsibility of managing the application, easing the programmer's work."

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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 10:01 AM Response to Original message

79. No-merely knowledge that there was such a thing as good, and such a thing

evil, and how to do evil. hehe, and this has been a banned book in the past.

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Onlooker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 10:07 AM Response to Original message

80. From Edmund Spenser's The Fairy Queen

Returning to his bed in torment great And bitter anguish of his guilty sight, He could not rest, but did his stout heart eat, And waste his inward gall with deep despite , Irksome of life and too-long lingering night.

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Burma Jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 10:11 AM Response to Original message

81. Nerd Boy

Edited on Mon May-03-04 10:12 AM by new_beawr The definition of class Folder in Example 2.3 adheres to this convention. Design Patterns for Object Oriented Software Development Wolfgang Pree

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CrownPrinceBandar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 10:20 AM Response to Original message

83. " 'You shouldn't listen to all you hear, Sandyman'....

said the Gaffer, who did not much like the Miller." Do I need to say what the book is?

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Redleg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:16 AM Response to Reply #83

90. Fellowship of the Ring

EOM

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Jeff in Cincinnati (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 10:21 AM Response to Original message

84. Mine

Edited on Mon May-03-04 10:21 AM by ritc2750 "Direct charging of these costs may be appropriate where a major project or activity explicitly budgets for administrative or clerical services and individuals involved can be specifically identified with the project or activity." Mine is a Cost Accounting Standards Manual. ...I'm such a dork

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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 10:48 AM Response to Original message

85. "Well, you'll have to take that up with him."

(In reply to a report that something nasty was taking place in the forest--and it's not the King's forest!) Greg Keyes: The Briar King. (Damn,I'll be done with it soon & the next in the series won't be out until August.)

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Triple H (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:15 AM Response to Original message

88. I have one! Guess where this comes from!

"Yes?" said the vampire. "I'm afraid I don't allow you to ask enough questions."

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Misunderestimator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:24 AM Response to Reply #88

93. Interview with the Vampire?

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Triple H (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:36 AM Response to Reply #93

95. Obviously.

Great guess. :thumbsup: One of my favorite books of all-time. :thumbsup:

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Misunderestimator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:44 AM Response to Reply #95

100. Thanks for reminding me how much I love that trilogy...

I think I will get the books again. :)

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Redleg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:16 AM Response to Original message

89. "To ensure that future Olympics organizers would have more knowledge,

all divisions and functional areas within SOCOG completed extensive templates of how they set up their operations." From the text book Organizational Behavior by McShane & Von Glinow. I use the text for the Organizational Behavior course I teach at the university.

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FDRrocks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:18 AM Response to Original message

91. "His first allegiance, he says, was to the Pan-German Nationalist

Edited on Mon May-03-04 11:23 AM by FDRrocks Party founded by Georg Ritter von Schoenerer, who came from the same region near Spital in Lower Austria as had Hitler's family." - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer, pg.23

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Feanorcurufinwe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:22 AM Response to Original message

92. George Sand: Les Ailes de courage

long sentence... Clopinet trouva ces paroles très belles, et ne les oublia jamais; mais le père Doucy rabattit l'orgueil de son beau-frère en lui disant: -- Je ne dis point que tu n'aies pas ces ailes-là quand il faut faire ton devoir; mais quand tu rentres à la maison, tu n'en es plus si fier, ta femme te les coupe!

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m-jean03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:35 AM Response to Original message

94. Oh, this is complicated computer stuff. Beware.

. . . . . . . "To specify a different color, click the color box, and choose a color." ( From "Adobe Photoshop CS User Guide".) :7 :7

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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:36 AM Response to Original message

96. From John Grisham's "A Painted House"

My mother was still stewing over the fact that the Mexicans had been hauled in like cattle.

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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:38 AM Response to Original message

97. here

"What are the major plant associations in your region?"

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BlueStateGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:39 AM Response to Original message

98. From somewhere far away came the blast of the silver Temple trumpets

proclaiming the celebration. 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply

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Tom_Foolery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:42 AM Response to Original message

99. From Jimmy Carter's THE HORNET'S NEST...

The next Sunday, Henry somewhat reluctantly asked a question that revealed ignorance about political alignments and the history of the mother country.

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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:45 AM Response to Original message

101. "By 1996, environmentalists noticed that the leader of an industry...

that produced significant greenhouse gases was setting up shop in their territory." --Ron Suskind "The Price of Loyalty"

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MallRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 11:52 AM Response to Original message

102. The primary structure and composition of albumin.

"The P-A/P-B association has a KA of 1-2 uM-1 (Pederson and Foster, 1969; Crouch and Kupke, 1980), and 94% of a 1:1 mixture of fragments reassociates at pH 8.6 as judged by osmometry." Sorry. You asked for the nearest book, and that's what you get. :-) -MR

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ironflange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 12:16 PM Response to Original message

103. Eyewitness Handbook: Butterflies and Moths

Some pupae overwinter with the adults emerging in the following year.

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Pithlet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:21 PM Response to Original message

104. "And his eyes began to itch."

Edited on Mon May-03-04 01:22 PM by Pithlet from Robert the Rose Horse, a Cat in the Hat book.

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RhodaGrits (688 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 01:31 PM Response to Original message

105. "The needle is then rocked back and forth in two directions

at 90 degrees to each other." 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply

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SW FL Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 02:29 PM Response to Original message

106. My son just finished a book report

Holes by Louis Sachar is on my computer desk. Here goes: "As Stanley tried to turn over on his cot, he was afraid it was going to collapse under all his weight."

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rbnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 02:32 PM Response to Original message

107. "The internet...

...has forever altered the way in which communities are defined." From The Center's Annual Report. (I'm at work right now.) Cool thread. :hi:

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tsakshaug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 02:33 PM Response to Original message

108. Here goes

At the other end of the spectrum, where quick, cheap, and easy networking is desireable, either UDP with a small, inexpensive hub or thinwire Ethernet does the job.

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Piltdown13 (829 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 02:35 PM Response to Original message

109. Mine:

"Another botanist, Jane Bock, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, accidentally found herself in the field of forensics in 1982 when a forensic pathologist asked her to study the stomach contents of a murder victim." from "No Stone Unturned: the true story of NecroSearch International, the world's premier forensic investigators" (The *nearest* book, but not the one I'm actually reading right now...it's on top of the pile to be perused next though -- I love Half Price Books! :-) )

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JohnOneillsMemory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 02:46 PM Response to Original message

110. From 'Hitler: A Study in Tyranny' by Alan Bullock.

Edited on Mon May-03-04 02:47 PM by JohnOneillsMemory "None the less the greater part of the experience on which he drew was already complete when he left Vienna, and to the end Hitler bore the stamp of his Austrian origins." Hmmm. My governor was born in Austria...shit.

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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:53 PM Response to Reply #110

134. Fuck. Mine too. (nt)

Edited on Mon May-03-04 08:53 PM by Ladyhawk

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Lizz612 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 02:46 PM Response to Original message

111. "He pushed himself in."

"Hope for the Flowers" pg. 22 actually, 23 is a picture.

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cmf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 02:49 PM Response to Original message

112. "In the driveway,..

one of the Guardians assigned to our household is washing the car." The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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tishaLA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 02:55 PM Response to Original message

113. "They proceeded, however,

Edited on Mon May-03-04 02:56 PM by tishaLA by emphasizing the dangers of the loose woman and, in attempting to educate the American people about the contagion of her infidelity, paradoxically enhancing the sexual associations they claimed to be protecting themselves against." 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply

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Mobius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 07:46 PM Response to Original message

114. Wow this thread went over pretty good

:)

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Teddy_Salad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 07:50 PM Response to Original message

115. here's mine

You did specify the 'nearest book'. Here goes. This would be a very practical routing mechanically, since the same locomotives hauling the heavy loads east could probably get the empties over the mountain without a helper on the steep grade.

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TheMightyFavog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 07:52 PM Response to Original message

116. MLA Handbook for writers of research papers, Fifth Edition.

At any point, you can print the file to review it or to use it for research.

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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 07:52 PM Response to Original message

117. and

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions During the first years of the war between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians, these signs succedded each other in Paris with a dangerous alternation: a purple hood with a cross of Saint Andrew, white hoods, then violet ones.

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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 07:55 PM Response to Reply #117

119. from Huizinga's The Waning of the Middle Ages

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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 07:55 PM Response to Original message

118. But, he who is related to me through loftiness...

of will experiences when he reads me real ecstasies of learning: for I come from heights no bird has ever soared to, I know abysses into which no foot has ever strayed. -Nietzsche

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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:00 PM Response to Original message

120. .

"If it was a really serious effort, on the scale of the Manhattan Project, we'd be talking about a $24-to-27-billion project," explains Bud Ris of the Union Of Concerned Scientists.

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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:18 PM Response to Original message

122. That is why the contortions and moans of the victim are necessary to the..

Edited on Mon May-03-04 08:23 PM by LynneSin ......torturer's happiness, which explains why Verneuil made his wife wear a kind of headgear that amplified her screams Um, it's the Marquis De Sade "The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings" To be honest, I never finished it, it gets boring after awhile unless you're really into that stuff. And somehow I had aquired the book while in College. I think it originally belonged to someone else. :eyes: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply along with these instructions BTW, it was the closest book outside of the phone book on my computer desk. I grabbed the book from the bottom row of my bookshelf next to my computer - geez, I think I've now started a S- -X thread :eyes:

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RPM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:21 PM Response to Original message

123. 26 USC 25A(f)(1)(B) Exception for Education Involving Sports, etc.

Such term does not include expeses with respect to any course or other education involving sports, games, hobbies, unless such chouse or other education is part of the individual's degree program. Law School is fun!!! - Tax law, even more so!

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Scottie72 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:22 PM Response to Original message

124. Here is mine....

It is from S.M. Stirling "Conquistador" "Getting you picture in "Town and Contry" or the gossip pages was enough to have your Gate privleges revoked."

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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:40 PM Response to Original message

125. This is fun...

Accumulated chemical cues help the snake zero in on potential prey while approaching within its preferred striking distance of less than 8 inches (20 cm).

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UnAmericanJoe (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:45 PM Response to Original message

127. Nearest book

"A boy, Wilhelm von Kugelgen, then nine years old, recalled in later life that his mother was told that if she came to the window, she could see Napoleon, who was about to pass."

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Kathleen04 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:46 PM Response to Original message

128. Okie dokie:

"His companions then asked him to accept a few shillings."

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solinvictus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:50 PM Response to Original message

130. Me

1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your reply My mortal part was to help humanity by the Jupiterian work, such as governing, teaching, creating, exhorting men to aspire to become nobler, holier, worthier, kinglier, kindlier, and more generous.

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VOX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:50 PM Response to Original message

131. "Duchamp was the quintessential Hipster."

from The Hipster Handbook. :)

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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Mon May-03-04 08:51 PM Response to Original message

133. Hoo-boy, this won't please some people...

That created a few minor problems on the Mac side of the aisle. ("Dreamweaver MX Bible" (be glad it ain't the Karma Sutra!)

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