Game Time

[FLyellowdog]

Here's the game: Grab the book nearest you. Right now. • Turn to page 56. • Find the fifth sentence. • Post that sentence as your REPLY. • Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.

GO!:headbang:

[FLyellowdog]

1. Yoshima had x-rayed the body while it was fully dressed,

a standard precaution to locate loose bullets or other metal fragments that might be lodged in clothing.

[Haole Girl]

2. "When that happens - when liberty is cited in the defense of a company's...

decision to dump toxins in our rivers, or when our collective interest in building an upscale new mall is used to justify the destruction of somebody's home - we depend on the strength of countervailing values to temper our judgments and hold such excesses in check."

[Capn Sunshine]

Cook until onion is transparent and golden brown

From "The Taste of Mexico" by Patricia Quintana.

Recipe: Puntas de Filete al la Nortena.
It's a Filet (beef) Tips recipe, Mexican style.

If you don't have this book be sure to get one, if you have any interest in Mexican cooking beyond Taco Bell. Taco Bell is cool, this is stellar.

[petronius]

3. "'Except us.'"

Jack McDevitt, Standard Candles

[cloudbase]

4. Well,

page 56 has a picture of Jackie Robinson at Forbes Field in 1947.


What do I win?

[wickerwoman]

5. Frederick Law Olmsted was the first American to think about parks in such urban-planning terms.

You asked for it. :P

[Forkboy]

6. "Indirect manipulation can take the form of acting helpless, asking questions,

...looking hurt, or a host of other behaviours, which give the manipulated person the feeling that the manipulator cannot cope without assistance."

[Dr. Strange]

9. The Kama Sutra?

[Forkboy]

10. I wish.

:)

[Dr. Strange]

7. Hmmm...

Find the focus and directrix of the parabola y² + 10x = 0 and sketch the graph.

[JanMichael]

8. "It occured to me that the iron-mouthed old bass...

..., impregnable of jaw and as well of stronghold, might be made to serve a turn."

That was from the closest book to me on the wall of books.

[fishwax]

11. "Both men and women wore the polo coat, a loosely belted garment, and the balmacan,

a raglan-sleeved three-quarter coat of tweed, unbelted and flared at the hem."

[Doc_Technical]

12. "Thus people do not usually describe...

their pseudo-hallucinations as being actual scenes or people."

[jobycom]

13. MS-Dos also includes VSafe, a memory-resident program that monitors your computer and warns of

changes that might have been caused by a virus.

[Call Me Wesley]

14. Here:

"Feel distinctly nauseous, then, of course, the damned mask begins to slip."

Barron Storey, 'The Marat/Sade Journals.'

[rug]

17. You have a curious library, my friend.

:scared:

[Call Me Wesley]

20. At least there wasn't any real DeSade in reach. ;)

This is the book I got for Christmas: http://www.graphicnovelart.com/page.asp?langue=FR&docid=102954

[rug]

21. Now you have me worried. I haven't seen Heidi posting.

[Call Me Wesley]

22. She did post today.

In a kitten thread, of course. ;) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=9207632#9207882

No worries, I won't quote deSade.

[CBR]

15. "More changes to the facility included, the construction

of a luxury press box in 1956, as well as a contemporary lighting system, built in 1983."

From: Autumn's Cathedrals: A Pictorial Tour of Division 1-A College Football Stadiums
The excerpt was about TCU's stadium.

[rug]

16. "This rule does not preclude the suspension of damages for delay as a pre-trial sanction under

Discovery Rule 4019."

Thank God! :woohoo:

[madinmaryland]

18. beaten, adj. discouraged, disheartened, depressed, dejected,

demoralized, hangdog, licked, hopeless, pessimistic, enervated, downcast, down.

It's the only real book, I have on my desk!

:D

[gratuitous]

19. DATED this ___ day of _______, 20___.

The Bar rules of procedure are riveting, no?

[muffin1]

23. The sensitive and considerate daughter we once knew

became, under his fierce coaching,a mean-spirited, unreliable, and pregnant ghost who eventually gave birth to a ticking time bomb!!!!!

[Jokerman]

24. "Administer just one drop to one nostril the first day"

Cat Owner's Home Veterinary Handbook

[Broken_Hero]

25. Okay,

"And maybe-I felt a cold eddy slip through me at the thought-maybe he had sensed something coming."

Skeleton Crew by S. King, this is from the first short story of the book, The Mist.

[AsahinaKimi]

26. um okay.. (page 56 line five)

Sumisu san wa kyonen Amerika kara Nihon ni kimashita (スミスさんはきょねアメリカからにほんいきました。 )

Mr. Smith Came to Japan from America last year.

(*Japanese for Busy People)

[azmouse]

27. ...

Page 56 is blank. I'm reading "Spook" by Mary Roach

[cemaphonic]

28. 56 is blank, (chapter break) so - 57...

My heart nearly burst.

[kayakjohnny]

29. From a 2009 Jamis Bikes Owner's Manual....

INTENDED - The challenges of mountain biking are obvious. The added challenges of tandem riding mean that you should limit off-road tandem riding to easy-moderate terrain.

[Avalux]

30. "Very large dark green leaves necessitate constant supply of moisture".

:shrug: :hi:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

31. An anti-Aliyev alliance between former President Mutalibov, Colonel Husseinov

and Alikram Gumbatov, leader of the Talysh ethnic minority, was formally announced on January 2 1995

[Skittles]

32. ##IXC371D CONFIRM REQUEST TO VARY SYSTEM XXX OFFLINE

well it is a work book

[lazarus]

33. Morse found a way

to make the world pay attention to his invention just three days later, when the Democrats opened their political convention in Baltimore.

From "The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told."

[femmocrat]

34. A.W.O.L. [i]abbr.[/i] absent without leave.

(Oxford American Dictionary, p. 56)

[bluesbassman]

35. To prevent the focus system from hunting when pointed at such a featureless subject,

select manual focus by by setting the focus mode switch on the lens to M (not A, or M/A).

Got that? M not A or M/A. :)