Grab the Nearest Book...

"For this reason, if we would elaborate it in our thought with greater penetration, we must remember what was said in our fifth proposition."

René Descartes's Rules For the Direction of the Mind

 

"You know I'm waiting for a chance to prove my love to you."

The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

 

what's the point of this game?

i tried a 'random dictionary quote' game thread which i guess sucks. But I still think it's funnnnn. I grabbed the closest book to me which is a dictionary and opened at random (you may be familiar with the classic "bible dip" as expurgated by the author of Dry and the book w/the cocktail glass wtf is that guy's name?) anyway (Augusten Borroughs.) here's the word I opened to at random...

"schlock" n. Slang. Something that is inferior or shoddy.

I think your game is fun but is schlock compared to my pick a random word from the dictionary game. (problem: lots of ppl do not have a dictionary) so there.

 

I think it's pretty fun. But then, you might say I'm a sad git with no life and too many books.

 

page 25 sentence 4: "Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers and went into a far country."

 

Being separated of what you love, is suffering.

Buddhism, Tom Lowenstein

 

and you're a Mormon?

here's another go...

"The road to Xanadu" by John Livingston Lowes

"Amos's masterpiece, however, may quite possibly have done for Coleridge what Mallet's Northern Antiquities had earlier done for Gray -- except, indeed for one important difference, that Gray's eggs hatched."

 

I once heard a story about someone who was using the Bible like that. He asked what he should do, and he picked a verse he didn't like too much so he tried again. The next verse he picked was 'Go, and do as you were told'.

 

"Most library holdings are kept on open shelves, to which the public has direct access."

~MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 6th ed.

 

"and she packed my pajamas and my robe and my toothbrush."

-Junie B. Jones is a party animal


thats right bitches....

 

Ebi: "Do you want to play monopoly?"

 

"Sumimasen ga, yakusoku no jikan o henko shite kudasai.
I'm sorry, but could you please change the appointed time."

Now, why do I have "Say it in Japanese" lying next to my computer?

 

Not far from where I was born, a creek flows from the foot of the Double Knobs Mountain down though dense lural thickets, pastures and the old baseball diamond.


Zell Miller's A National Party no More

 

The printable directions at www.mapquest.com are acurate and efficent.

from the 'unofficiall guide to Walt Disney World'

 

I said okay and Prof Nemur showed me how to werk the TV that reely wasnt a TV.

 

The survey method is one of the scientific strategies used to study what has now come to be called seasonal affective disorder, or periods of depression that come and go with the seasons.

(taken from 'Psychology: An Introduction' by Benjamin B. Lahey)

 

t/y kiss_the_sky for that funny awesome story.

I don't have another book nearby so hear is the random word from the dictionary. ..... .....

"immaterial" adj. 1. Of no importance; inconsequential. See Syns at irrelevant. 2. Having no material body or form.

hmmm. kinda like God, hey!! JK@!!!! JUST Kidding everyone!

 

why?

 

Rather than placing a sharp sign before every F, the F# can be indicated at the beginning of the line.


(awesome thread!)

 

Public protest is one of the few ways a minority can make itself heard.