A little game?

[ethiostar]

I am a little bored.

I did this with my friends a couple of years ago and it was fun and interesting.

________

Reach for a book that is closest to you.

Open it at random, whatever page that lands you on.

Find the first full paragraph on the page on your left, it has to be longer than 5 lines.

Find the 4th line in that paragraph and write down the first full sentence that begins on that line. (If a sentence doesn't start on that line move down until you find the beginning of the next sentence).

Give us the title of the book, the name of the author and page number.
________

NO CHEATING!!!!


"Conversely, the isolationists are entirely alone."

Sleepless by Charlie Huston, page 122

 

[xWraithx]

*insert picture of doggystyle*

Kamasutra, page 8

jk

 

[masomenos]

"Individuals who do not inherit mutations in rb, but who develop retinoblastoma, are said to have sporadic retinoblastoma, and aqcuire specific mutations, one in each rb allele of the retinoblast, during their lifetime."

Mark's Basic Medical Biochemisty - A Clinical Approach
by Colleen Smith, et al.
p. 326

 

[DallasCowpoke]

"For a good time call, 555-363-478...."

Oh wait, sorry! I was just in the bathroom outside Bob's office. :

 

[ethiostar]

*insert picture of doggystyle*

Kamasutra, page 8

jk

I forgot to say 'no picture books allowed'. You're might have to go out and buy a book with some text:

 

[hairic]

"For example, the following code creates a Namespace object using the Namespace constructor and compares it to a Namespace object retrieved from an XML document."

Page 410
Essential Actionscript 3.0
Colin Moock

Evidence: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0596526946/more_to_learn

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

I am a little bored.

I did this with my friends a couple of years ago and it was fun and interesting.

________

Reach for a book that is closest to you.

Open it at random, whatever page that lands you on.

Find the first full paragraph on the page on your left, it has to be longer than 5 lines.

Find the 4th line in that paragraph and write down the first full sentence that begins on that line. (If a sentence doesn't start on that line move down until you find the beginning of the next sentence).

Give us the title of the book, the name of the author and page number.
________

NO CHEATING!!!!


"Conversely, the isolationists are entirely alone."

Sleepless by Charlie Huston, page 122

"They stared, and were distracted; No man's life was to be trusted with them."

MacBeth (The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Volume III; The Tragedies), page 184

 

[xWraithx]

"Appropriate military leaves of absence will be granted by the Company pursuant to state and federal law."

Guidelines for Leaders - Employee Handbook
page not numbered

(lol, I'm at work)

 

[Phoenix]

I'll spare you. Just relocated to VA, and have only one book with me right now...the Bible. Everything else is still in storage.

 

[Signals]

[Mat 7:26] And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

[Mat 7:27] And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

New Testament, Author: Matthew. Page 980.

 

[ethiostar]

I'll spare you. Just relocated to VA, and have only one book with me right now...the Bible. Everything else is still in storage.

That will work.

 

[rkell87]

there is no paragraph on the page that has 5 sentences so ill just go with the 4th sentence

"The first decision i made is an excellent example of how dramatic and fast the ROI of this analytical fat-cutting can be:i stopped contacting 95% of my customers and fired 2% leaving me with the 3% to profile and duplicate.

The 4 Hour Workweek by timothy ferriss page 70

 

[ScipioCowboy]

I might slit my throat and wake up back where I started, her dead dog instead of her living one.

 

[Faerluna]

"If he was to have a last meal, he wanted it to be in the Russian Tea Room."

Angel Time, Anne Rice p.110

 

[daschoo]

"But I will yield him the Belgic land on one condition"
Bernard Cornwell
Enemy of God
page 218

 

[ethiostar]

Play I says!

 

[vta]

"Naturally, you will require some standard grooming tools to bring your hair into shape". - Cinema 4D Quickstart manual.

Playing this at work doesn't seem as fun as it should be.

 

[ethiostar]

"Naturally, you will require some standard grooming tools to bring your hair into shape". - Cinema 4D Quickstart manual.

Playing this at work doesn't seem as fun as it should be.

 

[vta]

Reading that you'd think I was a hair stylist. :

 

[ethiostar]

Reading that you'd think I was a hair stylist. :

I need a trim really bad, do you have an opening this weekend?