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  • Pick up the book that is closest to you at this moment...no cheating and grabbing your favorite or the most intellectual or impressive book you have...the one closest to you right now.

    Go to page 56 and look for the 5th sentence.

    Post it here.

    Mine:

    " In years like 1994 and 1997, it is spectacular"

    The Cheapskates Guide to Wine

  • Page 56 is blank--end of a chapter. Here's 57:

    "Scientists now almost universally believe global warming is occurring as a result of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions."

    Your Green Home -Alex Wilson

    Sorry, but you asked for it.

  • Includes 802.11b.g wireless LAN for fast internet access and a 10/100 Ethernet LAN.

    Summer 2009 B&H Photo catalog

    (I'm beginning to wonder about peen. 🙂 )

  • "Our existence, as we know it, is no longer transparent and understandable by reason, bound together into a tight, coherent structure."

    • - William Barrett,
    Irrational Man
  • "They focused on what might have been changed that bore a relationship to this timing."

    The New Rational Manager by Charles H. Kepner and Benjamin B. Tregoe.

    Now don't you all go out and buy it at once!!!!

  • Catch Basin shall be Flo-Thru model Z887.

    Zurn Trench Drain Systems Specification book.

  • In any civil action, in accordance with the discovery

    "Ohio Criminal and Motor Vehicle Laws"

  • Pumpkin - What do you do for a living? The Zurn reference peaked my interest.

  • nevertheless, anything that could conceivably be construed as criticism of the government, however oblique, was strictly forbidden.

    "Behind the mask"

  • "Of course, each remote user will need his or her own ISDN or analog line as well."

    Virtual Private Networks 2nd Edition, Scott, Wolfe & Erwin.

  • "Their holds were almost full, for they sat low in the water, and the waters around them were red with blood and offal.

    Midnight Tides: The Malazan Book of the Fallen

    Steven Erikson

    Not exactly intellectual, but a good read nonetheless.

  • Mark 3:14 "and He ordained twelve, that they should be with Him, and that He might send them forth to preach."

    KJV New Testament

  • TH closure is a simple arc of a circle with a radius equal to the length from the incisor point to the center of the hinge axis (condyle point c)

    -Sturdevant's Art and Science of operative Dentistry \

    My life is extremely dull right now....

  • "The town was placid and unresisting and had little the Confederates might want."

    - Glenn Tucker's High Tide at Gettysburg

  • The whole town has the feel of a scene from Deliverance, and the locals all dress in a repulsive yellow and black garb.

    " FODOR'S TRAVEL GUIDE" on Pittspuke, PA.

  • "Though he doesn't know it, another door recently played it's part in shaping his destiny."

    The Road to the Dark Tower

    Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus

    - Bev Vincent

  • Pumpkin - What do you do for a living? The Zurn reference peaked my interest.

    @chris said:

    Pumpkin - What do you do for a living? The Zurn reference peaked my interest.

    Civil Engineering. I know Zurn makes a lot of different stuff, including for plumbing and stormwater.

  • "The plane had a pressurization problem over the Gulf of Mexico, and the pilot made an emergency landing in Cancun."

    Salty Piece of Land

    -Jimmy Buffett-

  • 'Add the chicken and stir to seperate the meat.'

    The Food of China. Bay Books

  • "Click the scroll bar below the scroll box to move forward one screen; click above the scroll box to move backward."

    Using MS-Dos 6.2 (Circa 1993)

    I have a lot of computer manuals in the bookshelf beside my computer. 😛