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Login/Join to Participatethe henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
Alrighty...here's the "rules"
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 93
3. Find the 5th sentence down
4. Post it here.
Now, I am not sure what this is supposed to mean really. I do know that 93 is supposed to me Do what you love as long as it harms none.
Maybe it is supposed to help you find what you love?
Let's give it a try..shall we?
Nearest book (from the many, the first I picked up without lookin is...)
"Building a Character" By Stanislavski
Pg 93, 5th line
"The fact is that the work of voice placing consists primarily in the development of breathing and the vibration of the unsustained note."
Hmmmm.....I'll have to think on that!
Pele
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
33 posts
Location: Stoke-on-Trent (England)
Jamie Oliver - Jamie's Kitchen
PG 93 (Shaping into Ravioli)
line 5 - ...or into squares with a knife....
Thats deep....
if some one can find a decent no pasta related philosiphy in that please share it.mmm....may try again tomorrow and hope for something more insightful.....
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2,996 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Christopher Pike's The Season of Passage, mixed in with Terry Pratchet's Guards, Guards:
"Yeah" Terry said, "Can we go in now?"
The other drinkers thought they were some kind of cabaret.
It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.
What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...
*.. If ya can't be Good, Be Good at it..*
147 posts
Location: In Melbourne at the moment, Australia
Wendy Elks, The Gift Horse... this is my cousins book
5th line
She kicked Oscar's sides, and he got a fright and shot forward.
watching the world go by!!!!
Trick ferret on the making hehe!!!!
Everybodyknows me as (TriX)
Your Face!
1,173 posts
Location: el paso, tx, USA
Kerr Cuhulain-Wiccan Warrior, "As I say, if you aren't enjoying your religion,then you are either doing your relgion wrong or doing the wrong religion."
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
-Albert Einstein-
Peanut butter... It fills the cracks of the soul! -Paul Blart-
enthusiast
352 posts
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hmm.... nearest book - Join Me by Danny Wallace (of Are you Dave Gorman fame) very good read by the way, he gets a cult following by accident, true story and all. Sorry, back to this....
Page 93, line 5... "'There's no music involved' I said 'But that's not a bad idea. Might get a few more people joining. I need a 1000, and ---'"
(ok so that was line 5 and 6, line 5 ended after might....)
One day i'll learn to resist gravity...
the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
So far I think Pvt. Vt has the most profound.
As for anti-pasta but cutting things into squares, ummmm...Jeffry Dahmer? That's still cooking though, isn't it? Perhaps it isn't such a bad thing to be square? lol
I think you should try back tomorrow! Mine is wrong. I realized the book closest to me was not the one I picked up, but was hidden by my mountain of paperwork on my desk. So....
Keeping that in mind...
Wise Women by Susan Cahill (awesome book for anyone into women's history, btw)
Alrighty then...Pg 93...line 5
From Teresa of Avila (Carmelite order, outspoken women, author of Interior Castle in 1577)
"But, as I know that strength arising from obedience has a way of simplifying things which seem impossible, my will very gladly resolves to attempt this task although the prospect seems to cause my physical nature great distress; for the Lord has not given me strength enough to enable me to wrestle continually both with sickness and with occupations of many kinds without feeling a great physical strain."
Can she get it for one of the longest? This works less for me. I am going to be back with hobbitboy and trying again!
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
veteran
1,389 posts
Location: Guelph, ON, Canada
Okay, the closest book to me is my Bio text...
"(noh-men-klay-chur). The modern system for naming organ---"
Ooohh, aaahhh, so non-impressive >.<;
~ Bobo
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member
56 posts
Location: USA
Anne Rice writing as A.N. Roquelaure
Beauty's Release
Beauty could not see this happening because of the high collar.
addict
674 posts
Location: Ohio, USA
Nearest book was the Tao Te Ching, translated by David H. Li.
Pg 93, line 5: "By not displaying one's high virtue, one is virtuous"
Your Face!
1,173 posts
Location: el paso, tx, USA
Yes! the sleeping beauty series creeps it's way on to H.o.P!
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
-Albert Einstein-
Peanut butter... It fills the cracks of the soul! -Paul Blart-
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
the nearest book to me would either be the phone book or an internet security program manual......
and since they are both completely boring, im going to reach a little farther to get....
"the great australian and new zealand book of baby names" by cecily dynes
the 5th line on pg93 says "Humphrey" which is part of the entry for the name "Hunfredo".
the 5th entry on that page however is; HUSANI - Swahili 'handsome'
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Well, this is from Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts, Bray, et al.
Now, this page is a diagram page, and there are really two sentences that could be used, but:
"Ionic bonds are further weakened by the presence of salts, whose atoms form the counterions that cluster around ions of opposite charge."
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Liquid Cow
2,629 posts
Location: High Wycombe, England
"When researchers pushed a switch, a low-level, nonharmful electrical current passed through these gold wires and activated brain cells."
I wish I could say that this was from the lab notebooks of some random Frankensteinesque scientist but it's actually from Rod Plotnik's 'Introduction to Psychology, sixth edition'
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
313 posts
Location: london,uk
Tarot -mirror of the soul
and we have......the princess of disks
line 5
She holds a disk in her left hand,whose centre is the chinese symbol....
218 posts
Location: Townsville, QLD, Aust.
from "chronicle of ages" traci harding...
pg 93.... sentance 5.....
As the celestial beauty floated down to stand before Brockwell her form shrank and manifested into a naked human female.
hmmmm.... and NO i'm not reading some fairy porn..... i swear!
And wherever you've gone and wherever we might go. It don't seem fair. Today just disappeared.
195 posts
Location: Tasmania, Australia
closest book...hmmm....
dictionary of quotations as it happens...pg.93(dumm de dumm dumm)....line five...umm...
'...the madmen who made men mad by their contagion; conquerors and kings, founders of sects and systems.'-lord george gordon byron.
"surely a longboarding fire spinner should have no trouble getting some action!"- NYC....
enthusiast
352 posts
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
"make the connection between negative emotions and habitual negative thoughts"
and funnily enough, no, it's not a self help book!
Probably should have mentioned that that was from Occupational Therapy and Mental Health by J Creek
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One day i'll learn to resist gravity...
Intrepid Penguin
5,635 posts
Location: Australia
seeing as Bovril already used my psych text book... The next nearest book to me, is "Cranks Bible" by Nadine Abensur.
The fifth sentance on page 93 reads as follows:
There are few better lunches than this soundly flavoured tart.
*SMIRK*
Currently on the right side up of the world.
1,262 posts
Location: Cornwall & Oxford
The closest book to me is Descartes' 'Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings'.
Page 93, sentence 5 is -
'It follows that, if we fail to become aware of it, we can deny that it is in our mind'.
Aim high and you'll know your limits, aim low and you'll never know how high you could have climbed.
the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
Flynt, I could not go without saying that is so wrong yet so right in many ways!
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
1,269 posts
Location: middle of Troon
'"My muscles have all seized up," he groaned, sinking onto his bed.'
random murbles
BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL. 30th april ~ Calton hill - Edinburgh
SAMHUINN FESTIVAL. 31st October ~ Royal Mile - Edinburgh
Llamas are larger than frogs.
319 posts
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
"Great Expectations" (just finished reading it for school)
"I have taken to the sofa with my staylace cut, and have lain there three hours, insensible, with my head over the side, and my hair all down, and my feet I don't know where- (Dickens 93)"
*note the MLA citation!*
"I know a good deal more than a boiled carrot."
"Fire!" "Where?" "Nowhere, I was just illustrating the misuse of free speech."
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
Red Dwarf, The Last Human. By Doug Naylor.
P93, 5th Sentance:
"He's saying Mr Lister has chosen well, sir."
Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...
883 posts
Location: Stevenage
Mistress of Justice - Jeffrey Deaver
"And, a regular of the Downtown performing curcuit herself, Taylor knew that, to quote her father, there was no way in Satan's backyard that anyone would ever make any kind of serious money playing music in bars."
- A bit pessimistic I must say. That books very damp too.... I think someone must have been reading it in the bath or while washing up. Yuck ick yuck yuck.
Monkeys monkeys and bananas
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Fantastic Voyage by Kevin J. Anderson
"Before it was too late, the human race had to learn everything possible about this species – preferably without causing more damage to the sole 'survivor.'"
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
old hand
1,107 posts
Location: In a test pit, Mackay, Australia
Douglas Lobley - Ships Through the Ages:
Page 93 doesn't have 5 sentances on it, but a rather good picture of a boat called the Thomas Anderson. Here's sentance 3, the nearest I could get.
"The Robert F. Stockton , built in England in 1838 for the USA, crossed the Atlantic under sail in 1839 and took up service towing canal barges."
There is a slight possibility that I am not actually right all of the time.
33 posts
Location: Stoke-on-Trent (England)
Attempt number 2 (after my earlier Jamie Oliver [he seems 2 be getting mentioned alot on Neighbours recently...
])Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
"The pain on that mattress there-that dreadful pain- that's you."
mmmm
Intrepid Penguin
5,635 posts
Location: Australia
Pele,
I thought it was particularaly appropriate
xoxoxox
Flynt
(nutritious AND delicious!)
Currently on the right side up of the world.
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Quote:
Pele,
I thought it was particularaly appropriate
Or inappropriate, for that matter....
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Carpal \'Tunnel
5,814 posts
Location: Perth, Australia
Speed of a small bladed weapon
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
Im in a lonely battle with the world with a fish to match the chip on my shoulder. Gnu in Binnu in a cnu
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