Let's write a story: Grab the closest book to you and open it up

[LynneSin]

and type the 2nd sentence from the 2nd paragraph on page 47 of that book.

I'll start

[Inland]

1. Well, its a court rule book, and the sentence has 90 words, ten subparas.

[skygazer]

2. Here you go -

Robert Bourchier, the chancellor who had survived the battle of Crecy, was one of the first to be struck down by the plague.

"In The Wake of the Plague - The Black Death and the World it Made" (yes, i read some strange stuff)

[babylonsister]

3. I'll play...

"President Carter visits a nuclear plant during an "event," is irradiated, and grows to enormous size."

Edit: Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them"

[LynneSin]

4. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me

"The Godfather" by Mario Puzo

[fnottr]

5. We will now use the Nested Interval Property to prove that the set of

all real numbers is an uncountable set.

Take home math finals are fun...

[GOPisEvil]

6. A LONG sentence from "The Caine Mutiny"

There were rumors that everyone would get his first choice if the reasons were well put; other rumors that the sheets were just more meaningless Navy paper; still other other darker rumors, the more believed for their pessimism, that the purpose was simply to trap those who wanted to avoid dangerous duty, in order to make sure they got it.

[Piltdown13]

7. Me too...

"He talks about Ricky Blanton, his best player, saying, 'You two would be like Siamese twins. You both play like Attila the Hun.'"


From "A Season Inside," by John Feinstein.

[4morewars]

8. "That should stop ring operation,shouldn't it ?"

From "ExamCram2 CCNA"

[samwisefoxburr]

13. Please tell me that that is not talking about Token Ring.

If it is then :puke:

[4morewars]

19. "Cisco Certified Network Associate"

Chapter 3
Hardware and the OSI Model
-------------Token Passing Topologies

Apparently i need to learn this obsolete shit as background to fully understand blah blah blah blah.....

:puke:

[yardwork]

9. "That's right, scared of flying."

The Explosive Child, by Ross W. Greene, Ph.D.

[charlyvi]

10. "You don't know anything." Caddy said.

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner

[samwisefoxburr]

11. They are primary attributes that influence secondary characteristics.

From the World of Warcraft manual.

[mcscajun]

12. They just aren't big enough to handle the volume of traffic...

...that exists today.


(from the Safe Air Travel Companion)

[Contrary1]

14. "I was accustomed to taking care

of my mother without her really knowing it", Anne said.

[justgamma]

15. Beginning Jan 1, 1931,

no one could be an official speaker at a Nazi meeting without a special identification card issued by the Grau, and the card was issued only after the speaker had passed a test.




The Nazi Seizure of Power

[Lady Effingbroke]

16. OK....

"The electron configuration for oxygen is 1s²2s²2p⁴." - Chemistry for Dummies :dunce:

[Danocrat]

17. Combine the marinade ingredients on a deep plate...

...large enough to hold the fish.

[Paranoid_Portlander]

18. "16 13...Bf8 14 f5! exf5 (14..Nbd7...

Vaganian-Bischoff, German Cup 1998." I'm sure some of you can figure this out. Actually, there is no 2nd sentence in this paragraph, but this is the best I could do.

[immoderate]

20. Variable and constants that have module level scope

also reside in memory for the lifetime of the module.

--IMM

[fluffernutter]

21. Hands in pockets, he doesn't even lean over.

[givemebackmycountry]

22. here

People liked to say funny things around her because her laugh was so attractive.

Brautigan. Any guess as to which novel?
It's my favorite.

[JohnKleeb]

23. oday

The Court frequently names someone from the same area of the country as the prisoner, but that is no rule.

[arwalden]

24. CREATE DATABASE Temp;

USE DATABASE Temp;
CREATE TABLE Test_Table

[fortyfeetunder]

25. I looked around and noticed that ...

the long side was completely empty, with the exception of an elderly black man pushing a broom in the opposite direction. I quickly removed the price tag from the wallet, balled it up, and put it in my front pants pocket.






From E. Lynn Harris, "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted"

[NoodleBoy]

26. The key lies in thinking about the horizontal and vertical components of

the motion seperatley and then combining them to get the actual path.



true poetry.... "The Physics of Everday Phenomena- A Conceptual Introduction to Physics" by W. Thomas Griffith.

[haele]

27. "There are 21 gates altogether"

Japanese Castles by Mitchio Fujioka, closest book to me.
Either that, or an equidistant Navy SPAWARS manual, but I'd have to kill you all once I told you what was in that paragraph...

Haele

[terrya]

28. "Ample funds had been sent him"

From "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann.

[greendog]

29. Whitebark and Limber Pines, growing in open stands on exposed...

...ridges above about 8,500 feet, can live for centuries, but their longevity is dwarfed by that of Bristlecone Pines.

[Frogtutor]

30. This is shorthand notation for the compound statement

(p-----q)^(q-----p).

This is from one of my college math textbooks I use as a reference when tutoring.

[Khephra]

31. "Exposure to an overdose of visual kitsch....

(the world of bad taste) can produce the same symptoms, such as in "Graceland", "Neverland", "Times Square", "Las Vegas", "Disneyland", Vienna, Austria, and Switzerland."

[Deja Q]

32. 'All two foot six of him just hurtled towards me.'

Seriously!

[Ms_Mary]

33. There were rumors - there always are rumors- of large shipments

improperly licensed for export.

The Aquitane Progression, Robert Ludlum (Haven't actually read this one yet. My uncle sent it to me.)

[Darth_Kitten]

34. "Schwartz's loss was, however, Philip Bergstrom's ...........

........and acting's gain." :shrug:

[giant_robot]

35. "Such polar mutations...

...are thought to exert their effect on neighboring genes by the termination of the transcription of downstream genes when translation of the mRNA of the mutated gene is blocked by a nonsense codon."

From Sherris' Medical Microbiology, 5th ed.

Not exactly poetry. I'm afraid the science geeks among us are ruining it for everybody.

[New Earth]

36. And the many changes that this earth has gone through, and how long

each period of time existed, and when change came about.

from The Beginning by Dr. Malachi Z. York-El

[sbj405]

37. Through their eyes, I realized that a selfish approach to foreign policy

does not serve or protect future generations anywhere.


(Wow, what a good one!) Confessions of an economic hit man by John Perkins

[Misunderestimator]

38. We'd watch her sprayed hair and her hysteria, and the tears she could

produce at will, and the mascara blackening her cheeks.

Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

[Goathead]

39. On top of that, irrigation could reclaim only a fraction of it.

[Z_I_Peevey]

40. Its name comes from the Roman festival of purification

and religious expiation observed during this month, the Februa (Latin februare, to purify).



The Book of Days, Anthony Frewin

[hyphenate]

41. Okay...

I was afraid of them even though they struck only once in awhile.

[jus_the_facts]

42. He had an idea that the line of communication between them, chancy....

..at best, had ceased to exist with the coming of Mia's damned baby.
From The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower ~ Stephen King

[Frogtutor]

47. Jinx!

It's seriously weird how close I was to using the same book! I've got it out because I'm about to start reading it, but here at my computer desk I have a college math book sitting out, so I used it...

:wow:

[jus_the_facts]

51. LOL.....

.....I'm just gettin' into it m'self....I am a rabid SK fan...nobody holds my attention better than he can....s'been that way since I got *literally hooked* by his work in the early early 80's! :hi:

[SarahB]

43. "They are very enthused over the whole deal."

From Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

[CrownPrinceBandar]

44. Here.............................

"Monarchy is a more advanced form of government that helps increase our productivity."

- Civilization III Complete Users Guide

[Longgrain]

45. "A twin lens reflex

shows a scene only at the widest aperture of the viewing lens."

My old Photography text book.

[KDLarsen]

46. Here we go..

"The following appeal in 'Front Letter No. 3' to set up 'soldier committees in each unit, in each regiment, in each division' was found by a Russian soldier in the lining of the greatcoat of a German solder".

Antony Beevor - Stalingrad

[Bluebear]

48. And he didn't film only in Hawaii.

[LiviaOlivia]

49. "What made me so damned garrulous yesterday?" he said,

while lying in his cot.

Master and Commander-Patrick O'Brian

[progmom]

50. Drunk?

It's from The Langston Hughes Reader. Nice and short, eh?

[name not needed]

52. "I never thought I'd be writing this, but..."

:D

[Spider Jerusalem]

53. The question...

how to construct relations having some useful property by means of operations upon relations which only have rudiments of the property is one of considerable importance.

(Bertrand Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy)

[TheMightyFavog]

54. "He is a middle-aged puppy,

what people used to call a coxcomb,and the worst gossip I know."

[Tikki]

55. He (Abraham Gottlob Werner) was the leader.....

of "neptunian" geology, which maintained that all the rocks of the earth's crust were sedimentary.


The Book of Darwin....edited with introduction and commentary by George Gaylord Simpson.

[Phentex]

56. Chill, covered, for one hour.

It's a cook book!

Veggie Party Spread p. 47

[LynneSin]

60. You could share the rest of the recipe with us

:P

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

57. And so McDonough calls Fed Chair Allen Greenspan and Treasury Secretary

Robert Rubin and a bailout is arranged.

" Corporate Predators"

Mokhiber/Weissman

[Skittles]

58. "I think it is mastitis, Dad"

from "Every Living Thing" by James Herriot :D

[nuxvomica]

59. On the contrary, bleeding may even have a strengthening effect,

as is shown, not only in cases of imflammation of the more important organs where the whole body is, as it were, paralyzed, in inflammation of the heart, imflammation of the lungs, croup, etc., but also generally in the case of cholera, and this is confirmed by the opinions of the best practitioners who have observed and treated cholera, as also by the testimony of the patients after the bleeding has been performed.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

61. Because book publishers

are in the business of selling books - big surprise there, huh? - you'll likely never see "Otterhounds for Dummies."

From "Dogs for Dummies"

[Voltaire]

62. Here goes

"It forms the second major written narrative in what is now known as the Old Testament."


John Shelby Spong - Rescuing The Bible From Fundamentalism - A Bishop Rethinks The Meaning of Scripture

[sakabatou]

63. "After a gentle nudge from his father...

...thanked me for the gift."

~Iron and Silk, by Mark Salzman

[Kadie]

64. Add veggies and saute for 5 minutes.

from a Rachael Ray cookbook.

[rbnyc]

65. "Attention all humans! It's time to SHAPE UP!"

[billyskank]

66. Gah! My book doesn't have a second paragraph on p47

so I'll give you the second line of the second verse instead:

"paranam paramatmanah"

[Mojambo]

67. Okay

First, untrammeled free inquiry in the pursuit of knowledge.

[ZombieNixon]

68. "They're not prefects," reminded Haut Rodric;

"they're kingdoms now."

(-Isaac Asimov, Foundation)

[MisterP]

69. She was still so sensitive about being hurt that she was afraid even to

show gratitude.

[norml]

70. My horse is still fresh, though my heart is weary and I long to sleep.

From King Arthur, and His Knights of the Round Table, by Roger Lancelyn Green

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

71. If the experimenter opens the box and finds out the cat's still alive,

he could ask his friend how did he feel before this apparently crucial observation.

(Yep, Heisenberg's cat.)

[peacefreak]

72. This is also a good choice for parents

seeking a wholesome snack for their kids.


(Quick Vegetarian Pleasures--Jeanne Lemlin)
edit for spelling run amok.

[Flaxbee]

73. "However, since we have no choice over his coming,

I 'm glad one of us can anticipate pleasure in the visit."

[zeemike]

74. "It seems more likely that he died suddenly from natural causes"

[curse10]

75. "Isn't it just barely possible that Uncle Pumblechock may be a

tenant of hers, and that he may sometimes-- we won't say quarterly or half-yearly, for that would be requiring too much of you-- but sometimes-- go there to pay his rent?"

[BluePatriot]

76. Ack! Long...

"The main facade of the five-story block is divided into three horizontal tiers, the first with five broad arches embracing two floors, the second with a two-story arcade of ten primary openings, the third a one-story arcade of fourteen openings between corner pavilions."

-- Three American Architects: Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865-1915. James F. O'Gorman.

[sans qualia]

77. The heritability of Mental Retardation

is discussed under "Predisposing Factors" (see p. 45).