Random Task: Grab the nearest book and post the 6th sentence from the 66th page.

[The Night Owl]

Go!

[Mr. Ected]

1. When the Lion Feeds - Wilbur Smith

"He was human enough to want the prestige the office carried with it, but was also sensible to the fact that his farm would suffer from his frequent absences".

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Okay

"Perhaps it's an unmusical and nasal, rising,two-syllable zu-wee, zu wee, over and over, but then he eventually does switch to another."

:D

[UndertheOcean]

3. Being and Time ; Heidegger

The 66th page is a blank one , kid you not !

[The Night Owl]

4. LOL! How ironic. {EOM}

[Strong Atheist]

5. AAaaaarrrgggghhhhh!!!

Hate that book...

x(

[Strong Atheist]

6. Suddenly fearful, he dropped his burdens and put a hand to his father's

face.

[doc03]

7. There are only 4 sentences on the page. n/t

[ornotna]

8. Ok

Baby Pat wouldn't eat hamburger for a long time, as she thought gelding meant making hamburger.


Voyages of the Vicky Mary (and other stories you might wish you had never read) - Edward A. Gard :patriot:






:cry:

[anneboleyn]

9. Sixth complete sentence from pg. 66 of Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

"A mask for mediocrity, was Clive's view."

[tekisui]

10. It is my belief that any physician who even take part in so-called

emergency medical disaster planning-specifically to meet the problem of a nuclear attack-is committing a profoundly unethical act.

[Kali]

11. LOL

Just happens to be a Haynes manual for Ford full size vans 69 - 91
page 66 is the exploded wiew of "Typical six cylinder inline engine internal components" No sentences on that page, although number 6 is "Head bolt":rofl:

[JTG of the PRB]

12. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

"We were waiting to see hoe he handled the thing with Bernard. He handled it perfectly."

Okay, so that's technically the 5th AND 6th sentences... So sue me! :P

[charlie and algernon]

13. Moby Dick or, The Whale

I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especially as Peleg, his friend and old shipmate, seemed such a blusterer.

[SwissTony]

14. Other properties show which column in the combo box

is bound to data, how many columns are in the combo box, the width of the combo box, and the width of each column in the combo box.

From: Mastering Microsoft Office Acess 2003.

[MrScorpio]

15. Here you go

"If you pick up any book on American history and look at the Vietnam War, there is no such event as the American attack against South Vietnam."

Noam Chomsky
Chronicles Of Dissent

[skygazer]

16. From "Camp and Outpost Duty for Infantry 1862 by Daniel Butterfield"

The provost marshals, general and local, will notify the regimental commanders concerned of all arrests of soldiers made under their orders, and will cause the men to be delivered, with a copy of the charges against them, to their proper officers.



Yes, I read weird stuff. :P

[Madrone]

17. okay,

Most of the joints in the body are freely movable synovial joints.

[begin_within]

18. "Hold the rattle by its taped ends and shake away."

The People's Almanac.

[merh]

19. I rarely found more than a footnote.

:shrug:

[bridgit]

20. Gun oil.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. "Be Careful Who You Love:

Inside The Michael Jackson Case," by Diane Dimond:

"I said, 'This whole thing's out of control. We have to tell Mommy so she'll be on our side and we can end this insanity.'"

No, really, I love trash non-fiction ..................

[suninvited]

22. okay

Therefore, when you place a 50 mm lens on a camera with a smaller sensor, it might end up having the field of view of a 70 mm lens on a 35 mm camera.

You said nearest book, not the most exciting one.

[704wipes]

23. ok, here goes

"If I had my way", he said, "American geography books would call those European countries by their right names: 'The Syphilis Empire,' 'The Republic of Suicide,' 'Dementia Praecox,' which of course borders on beautiful 'Paranoia.'

[Zomby Woof]

24. The Buried Mirror - Carlos Fuentes

It meant substituting for the private links of feudalism the public links of the state and even of an incipient nationhood.

[knixphan]

25. "who want to understand more about the studio system should.."

"Filmmakers and Finance"
-Louise Levison

[AllenVanAllen]

26. It was April 7, 1976.

It's near the beginning of chapter 10 of I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.

[proteus_lives]

32. Great book.

:thumbsup:

[Broken_Hero]

27. Okay,

"Only Coming so soon after all this shite about the shovel..."

:D

[SeattleGirl]

28. "I thumbed through the pages until I reached the place where Al had

laboriously copied down the Japanese words from the computer screen."

"Dismissed With Prejudice"
J.A. Jance

[Duer 157099]

29. The trip was easier than in 1769:

a seventy-mile, badly paved road circles the coast of Tahiti Nui, or Great Tahiti, the larger of the two land masses that together form the hourglass-shaped island.

[qnr]

30. OK (well, page 66, not the 66th page)

3. This International Standard gives no meaning for a program that deallocates dynamic storage given as a workspace in a call of COROUTINE.NEWCOROUTINE since the use made of coroutine workspace is implementation-dependent.

[proteus_lives]

31. The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks

"Doors and windows could even remain open and unboarded."

[pokerfan]

33. 'k

As we discussed earlier, twice during Saturn's twenty-nine year orbit its rings appear edge-on from Earth.

[Q3JR4]

34. Okay,

For every event A,

0≤P(A)≤1,

i.e, the probability is between 0 and 1.

Q3JR4
Yep, math book. Deal with it.

[ashling]

35. The Assault by Harry Mulisch

"This is the first time I've returned to Haarlem."

[trof]

36. "The two, each of whom was subsequently to realize his ambition,

were Cardinal Borgia, the future Alexander VI, and Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, the most able of Sixtus' nephews, the future Julius II."
whew
Hard to get your head around.

"The March of Folly"
- Barbara W. Tuchman

[hobbit709]

37. Twoflower pointed. 'Hey' he said. 'It's got my Luggage!'

[momto3]

38. Okay - but, warning - I am at work.

Most of the transcription factors described in the previous sections were isolated by the biochemical fractionation of cellular extracts and were then shown to have a particular functional activity in modulating the rate of transcription when mixed with RNA polymerase and other subcellular fractions.

What can I say - I am a science geek.

:hi:

[momto3]

39. Okay - but, warning - I am at work.

Most of the transcription factors described in the previous sections were isolated by the biochemical fractionation of cellular extracts and were then shown to have a particular functional activity in modulating the rate of transcription when mixed with RNA polymerase and other subcellular fractions.

What can I say - I am a science geek.

:hi:

[justiceischeap]

40. All that was provided was a selection of yucky flavored teabags.

Claire McNab - The Platypus Ploy

[Iggo]

41. Fenring watched...

...as the mouth of the immature worm quested left and right, revealing glimmering thorns far back in its gullet.

[keithjx]

42. You asked, I'll play along.

All language on p. 66 is stricken due to BACPA amendments to bankruptcy code in 2005, but the 6th stricken sentence reads:

"(3) In such a case, the estate may carry back any loss of the estate to a taxable period of the debtor that ended before the order for relief under such chapter the same as the debtor could have carried back such loss had the debtor incurred such loss and the case under this title had not been commenced, but the debtor may not carry back any loss of the debtor from a taxable period that ends after such order to any taxable period of the debtor that ended before such order until after the case is closed." 11 U.S.C. sec 346(i)(3).

From my trusty US Bankruptcy Code and Rules Booklet. (Clearly at work)
KJ

[Tikki]

43. The Government closely monitors these....

issues in Tibet and China generally, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs
and senior officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade raise
such issues regularly with their Chinese counterparts.


Tikki

[Doc_Technical]

44. "Don't you own an empathy box?"

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick

[LynneSin]

45. Passion is the fire, the desire, the strength of conviction and the drive

Stephen R. Covey's "The 8th Habit, from effectiveness to Greatness"

I shit you not!