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15/04/04

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Greg told me to:

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 journal along with these instructions.

From Fup by Jim Dodge:

Tiny, fortunately, was as amiable as his Grandaddy was ornery, as placid and benign as the old man was fierce and belligerent.

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Shaun Inman said 1641 days ago:

I'm in.

Wait a minute this isn't some guerilla marketing campaign for Verizon Wireless is it? ;D

Sharif said 1641 days ago:

Can you hear me now? Good.

Jon Hicks said 1641 days ago:

Sharif - do tell!

Sharif said 1641 days ago:

I guess that joke didn't travel too well... In the US, we've got an insane number of Verizon TV commercials where a guy walks all over the place with his trusty Verizon phone saying "Can you hear me now? Good.", implying that they've got full nationwide coverage.

I'll need to test my jokes on an international audience before posting from now on. ;-)

Dom said 1641 days ago:

Reminds me of this thing I do when I have to make a decision on something :
- pick a book at random
- pick a page at random
- read the first sentence : this IS the answer to your problem. :-)
- follow "the instructions" you've just read.

Important : Although you may not like the answer, you can't do it again.

Peter Zignego said 1641 days ago:

Sharif - LoL, that was good. It's a shame the UKers won't get it (apparently, because if Hicks dosn't, I doubt any of them will:p)

Oh, and after seeing 4 different sentences on 4 different sites, this still dosn't make an ounce of sense to me. Or perhaps its a kilo in the UK:P

Shaun Inman said 1641 days ago:

Oh no, I'm addicted to memes! I'm in again, this time from home.

lemming said 1641 days ago:

"The class attached to the triangle is the general, or the base, class; the class at the other end is the specialized from of the general class"

And as i mentioned, i know what it means. Maybe i should begin reading this book. Hmm... no.

Jon Hicks said 1641 days ago:

Sharif, I have one thing to say to you...

“Who gives you extra? WHO? WHO? WHO? WHO?”

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LintHuman said 1641 days ago:

Jon, I think that should be:

"Who gives you extra? Who? Who? We do!"

Now, of course, they're "Sailing". Ouch.

Looks like a particularly weird meme, this book lark.

#11

Arman said 1640 days ago:

Looks like this fad is going everywhere on the net:

http://arman.metajournal.net

#12

spoono said 1640 days ago:

Just had to do it myself:

"Because USIX doesn't run perfectly 100 percent of the time the systems administrator must maintain the system."

From Using Linux 5th Ed SE by Jack Tackett, Jr. and Steven Burnet.

I have never actually read that before ;)

#13

luis said 1640 days ago:

from "Politically Correct Holiday Stories" by James Finn Garner:

"Everyone gasped and clapped their hands at this mechanical wonder, except for a few spoilsports who complained that children were forgetting how to entertain themselves with all these new automatic playthings."

Sounds like someone describing a weblog :/

#14

Quentin Hill said 1639 days ago:

"I didn't see the crying Madonna, just the road-stain Jesus."

from "Lucky You" by Carl Hiaasen

At first I was just going to see what I'd get by following the directions. Seemed to random not to share.

#15

Johnie said 1639 days ago:

"This makes sobering reading: 44 per cent of New-York 2-year-olds are said to attack and annoy their younger brother or sister; 50 per cent eat too little; 70 per cent resist going to bed; 83 per cent of these normal little Americans are said to whine and nag mercilessly; 95 per cent were stubborn and 94 per cent had attention seeking behaviour."

from New Toddler Taming by Dr Christopher Green.

I thought you might need to know that.

#16

Christian Machmeier said 1639 days ago:

"Programmieren mit PHP" by Rasmus Lerdorf, Page 23, Sentence 5:

Hier ein Beispiel für einen C-artigen, mehrzeiligen Kommentar:
/* In diesem Abschnitt nehmen wir eine Reihe von Variablen und weisen ihnen Zahlen zu. Dafür gibt es keinen echten Grund, ausser dass wir ein wenig Spass haben wollen.
*/
$a = 1; $b = 2; $c = 3; $d 0 4;

#17

Jon HIcks said 1638 days ago:

Johnie - that one was my second nearest!

#18

johnie said 1638 days ago:

Jon - Always to hand too, but could be more effective in hardback :)

#19

Mondo Dynamo said 1637 days ago:

"And there he sat, like a caged animal"

#20

Thomas Herzog said 1637 days ago:

"Hello?" called Dunstan.

#21

ank said 1635 days ago:

THIS IS MY PAGE 23 - PAGINA 23:
"La testa non mi girava, ma c'erano piacevoli postumi di stanchezza, come quando non dormi abbastanza
perchè c'è qualcosa di importante che ti agita. Mi sono seduta sul letto e ho ricomposto il film della giornata precedente. La cucina, il parco, le sigarette, i baci di Denja, illogici, esattamente come dovevano essere."

- Irina Denezkina, Dammi (Daj mne! Song for lovers)