New Forum Game. Grab the nearest book...

[irishScott]

It's actually a facebook status message game, but it'll work just as well.

Instructions (modified for forum use):
* Grab the book closest to you. Now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Post it.
* Don't go looking for your favourite book, or the coolest one you have -- just grab the closest one.


I've got: "But how much energy do animals yield?"

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

34% of cheese consumption came from cheddar cheese.

Solutions manual

 

[MotF Bane]

It wasn't his fault, but it was his job.

 

[djheater]

Oh, it's a good one...


Upon the mole, the deserted mole, he spoke quite easily: ' I am glad to see you so forward with your repairs, Cousin Jack; for there is a certain amount of eneasiness in Whitehall about your destination, and I think I must relax the rigour of my order on precedence and get Surprise to sea a good deal earlier than I had thought.'

 

[Rockinacoustic]

"In fact, nucleic acid sequencing is invaluable for studying genes whose products have not yet been identified."

 

[Away]

Such a yogin does not consider the consequences of his actions, only their rightness.

 

[TallBill]

"Fabricated by lower celestial gods, sexual desires, as all emotions, were considered a mistake."

 

[newnameman]

Then, whether we succeeded or failed in broader negotiations with Russia, we would be free to pursue a missile defense system to protect Americans from current threats.

 

[coldmeat]

I had to get up and walk across the room to get a book with 56 pages.

"In humans, a molecule of ß-carotene can be broken down into two vitamin A molecules, from which we make the pigment rhodopsin, which is required for vision."

 

[Kirby]

Not a book, but the closest I've got ATM:

"The DRAUGHTFLOW SYSTEM employs a small recyclable device which floats in the ale."

 

[Jeff7]

Instead of using threads per inch to classify them, however, we'll use the pitch distance between two teeth, in millimeters.

An Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints.
John H. Bickford.

 

[CycloWizard]

"Stresses produced by terms containing \sin{m\pi x/\ell} are obtained by summing up solutions (k)." And no, the book is not written in TeX, but I'm bilingual like that.

 

[venkman]

Whats this "book" you speak of?

 

[zerocool84]

As with a bomb, there was a critical size for a pile: if it was too small too many neutrons would escape outside before they were absorbed by uranium nuclei: and Fermi gradually built up his pile until on 2 December 1942 it 'went critical' and showed that it could produce both energy and plutonium.

 

[Shawn]

"The particular assignment of codons to amino acids in the genetic code reduces the deleterious effects of point mutations and translation errors."

 

[The Boston Dangler]

"they need a line of sight to their target, which means they must be exposed and aimed."

 

[SlickSnake]

I have a question. Does the incomplete sentence on 56 from the following page 55 count as a sentence? Or is it technically a sentence from the previous page?

So, not counting the incomplete sentence it would be this:

"In addition to prosthetic firearms and transmitters, both guards had optical monitors where one or the other of their eyes should have been."

:laugh:

From "The Gap Into Power - A Dark And Hungry God Arises" by Stephen R. Donaldson

 

[gorcorps]

"Mainly lecherous, I'm afraid," the intrepid replied.

 

[RESmonkey]

THERE IS NO PAGE 56. IT STARTS AT 785, LOL!

So the second nearest book....

Referring to Figure 2.5, if the currents through the three branches into node a are ia, ib, and ic, then KCL states that ia + ib + ic = 0.

 

[Cabages]

Remember the speech the prez made before congress, how it had been tested in Europe for some time and the only thing holding it up was our own "bloated bureaucracy"?

 

[Tiamat]

oh f***, the closest book to me didn't have 56 pages

 

[Mo0o]

always takes a little bit before the latest /b/ trend reaches AT

 

[Canai]

They were men drawn together in a loose association by common beliefs and shared self-interest, rather than an exclusive group meeting in clandestine hideaways with focused and sinister intent.

 

[otifrank]

Click the Start menu button, then select the RUN command.

 

[Vehemence]

This is all over Facebook

Mine:

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