You all have probably done these things 5,000 times, but they never cease to amuse me. Do it :P


1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fifth full sentence
4. Don't search around for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually nearest to you
(We already know you, no use trying to be pretentious)



"Thereafter, in place of the name, type three hyphens, followed by a period and the title."
~MLA handbook for writers of research papers, 5th ed :P



Oh give me a break, I was writing a paper this afternoon...

"Because z = -3 = -3 + 0i, this complex number corresponds to the point (-3, 0)."

a college math book

"Elle ne perd pas son texte, elle le sauvegarde."

which means "she didn't lose her text, she saved it." refering to saving something on a computer. from my french textbook.

"Though there is no agreement that gas in the cause of infant colic, it is recognized that many collicy infants do seem gasey (whether this is a cause of the crying or an affect isn't clear), and studies show that reducing the gas seems to reduce the discomfort for many."

What To Expect The First Year (a guide to being a mom i guess)

lol my book doesnt have 123 pages... :(

Lend vb. Give something to someone for a time, expecting to get it back.


i am bad speller so the dictionary is always close by lol :lol:

"Mac has okayed a kitten colony as long as they have their own room and don't run all over the house getting in his shoes and pants legs."

~'The Cat Who Brought Down The House' - Lilian Jackson Braun

"There is a very high wall with spikes on it around the garden to stop people climbing in."
~The BFG - Roald Dahl.
This is when a little girl and a giant are planning to meet the queen, and are deciding how to get in. Really random, but I guess that's the point of this thread. :)

the nearest book doesn't count in numbers but in chapters and pages per chapter :| so i pick a random page near 123 i hope:

"Using four serial ATA hard disks and two UltraDMA133 hard disks, you can set up RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, Multi-RAID, and JBOD configurations."

A8V Deluxe User Guide - ASUS
my motherboard book

The real power of GUIs lies in the fact that they offer that they offer the user element of control. This is mainly acheived through choice and selection.

Teach yourself Java (second edition) - Chris Wright

These commands work on grayscale and 16 million color (24-bit) images only.

~Jasc paint shop pro 9 user guide. :hehe:

If the tank diameter is large compared to the jet diameter (D>>d), Eq.3 indicates that V1<<V2 and the assumption that V1~0 would be reasonable.

~Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, 4th Edition

Note: playing games will quickly consume the battery

VK530 user's manual

In conclusion, we're a bunch of geeks :lol:

"Avoid bending the electrodes, which would alter the conductance of the system."
-My chemistry lab manual lol

but all my textbooks are basically right above me, that one just happened to be on the end. well technically my school's phone directory is on the end, but there are listings on page 123 and therefore no complete sentences :P

The other quantity (the wind velocity) has a numerical value (its magnitude) and also a direction associated with it.

Geometry and Discrete Mathematics textbook, talking about vector concepts using the example of a weather report.

The lie had served its purpose.

~Digital Fortress - Dan Brown

In this chapter, you learn several ways to adorn your workbooks and make your numbers a little more exciting.
~The complete idiot's guide to Microsoft Office 2000 (My mums :P )

blintze : a thin usu. wheat-flour pancake folded to form a casing and then sauteed or baked.

Sounds good.

"Add tension and suspense."

An American Lit. textbook.

Haha, I never heard of this before...

"I noticed that the tiny freckles that were under my eyes looked more prominent."

From the book "Melody" by V.C. Andrews

"These he would present to Aphrodite to atone for the past wickness of his people."
-my sister's book of greek myths :P

"For there is no bread, neither water, and our soul loatheth this light bread." ~ Ancient Bible History

Pastes a cut or copied selection or layer as a new image, a selection, a new layer, or a group of layers.

From Paint Shop Pro 8 book.

"With the economic lessons of the First World War serving as a grim reminder, the federal government was determined to maintain greater control over this wartime economy."
- A Canadian history book is didn't return last year (booooooooooring)

To be honest, it was the second closest book.. the very closest was my TI-83+ handbook, but the pages aren't numbered, they just have chapter numbers and sections, and I didn't feel like counting lol.

"The mixture can be baked as a whole in a greased cake pan." - I was looking through my cookbooks to find I can make for tomorow...and...well, that's an excerpt from one of my favourite dessert cookbooks, whip. LOL.

"(B) is correct since in-order means 'visit the left, then the root, then the right', while the binary insertion tree has a number in the root, smaller numbers on the left, and bigger on the right."

from a computer science book

In conclusion, we're a bunch of geeks :lol:

hahah very true

"hermione was stomping up the stairs looking disapprovingly at the package in Harry's hand."

Harry potter and the philosphers stone

"PHP provides two statements, require and include, which both read and execute code from a specified file."

~ professional PHP programming

a bunch of geeks indeed... Sheila's book sounds like more fun than mine!

"PHP provides two statements, require and include, which both read and execute code from a specified file."

~ professional PHP programming

a bunch of geeks indeed... Sheila's book sounds like more fun than mine!

That doesn't surprise me :)

"hermione was stomping up the stairs looking disapprovingly at the package in Harry's hand."

Harry potter and the philosphers stone

I knew someone would come up with Harry Potter!!!! (btw, isn't that the poa? yes, i am a nut)

"Some kind of hippie-happy reggae music she had never heard of was playing on the stereo." -one of my fluff gunk books that are totally stupid but i read them anyways.

"You can also format their color and line style."
-Getting results with Microsoft PowerPoint 97
(really 3rd closest, but closest with 123 pages) :)

My legs hurt and i still carried on walking.

"What can you do?"said Hirvo :) Lol that`s it!
:wolf: -Kubi

"Hedging his bets, he ordered half of his men back to the Louvre perimeter."

-The DaVinci Code

On top of my computer desk waiting to be read lol :)

Hmm well what if someone is a parent and they have a 6 page baby book siting next to them? :rolleyes:
:wolf: -Kubi

Hmm well what if someone is a parent and they have a 6 page baby book siting next to them? :rolleyes:
Then it obviously won't work :rolleyes:

Are you a parent with a 6-page baby book nearby?

"It's adequate for my purposes."
Everything on a Waffle

"All the men and women who wanted to give came and brought a gift to the Lord"
~Focus on the Family presents Tha Adventures in Odyssey Bible (The World's most Kid-Friendly Bible!!) :rolleyes:

"It was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, with a large stone courtyard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace before the principal door." ~ "A Tale of Two Cities" A Signet Classic, with a new introduction by Frederick Busch

..what? It's for my Western Civ class, honest :)

Oh, that's okay; mine's from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (great book, by the way.):

"'But if Juliet's such a young gal, Duke, my peeled head and my white whiskers is goin' to look oncommon odd on her, maybe.'"

"Anti-Muggle pranksters," said Mr. Weasley, frowning.

-HP and the Order of the Phoenix XDD

In the spring on 1998, it was the Internet explosion.

Erm... okay... lol... My mom got this book at the libary, Electronic Day Traders' Secrets... Meh...

"Of course I put laundry soap in the sweet potatoes," Corporal Snark admitted to Yossarian.
-Catch 22 (which I am reading..of course I am. uh huh. yup)

Defend him from those who rise up to do him harm(Pslam 59:1)
- Power of a Praying Wife.
One of my mom's books, it was actually the only book on the desk that isn't burried somewhere in paper's.

6) Then, the right foot hooks inward, the left foot steps around behind on the circle and the body turns backward to the left 180 degrees.

- My father's bagua/tai chi book..."Liang Zhen Pu Eight Diagram Palm" by Li Zi Ming. :lol: