Poll of the Day > Grab the nearest book, turn to page 45

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First sentence describes your sex life

"After all that work and getting blown up, I'm exhausted"
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"Fish with a hook and line"

the nearest book to me was a dictionary :/
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For they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hails had left.

Exodus 10:15
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It doesn't go up to 45
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What should you do if your solution is not causing expected improvements?
a. Wait for the problem to solve itself
b. Adjust the solution promptly
c. Abandon the solution
d. Stop monitoring effects


It's an end-of-chapter practice quiz in my textbook. This is strangely applicable to this subject.

"By substituting different extracts and nuts, you can get a huge variety of flavors out of this classic combo."

That's from a cookbook. The first sentence just so happened to be one that can be taken a strange way out of context XD
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There were a few children and young people in the pool


Ian Flemming-Goldfinger
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Kinsey was thinking about me so I popped in to see her and I didn't even know I was going to until one of those flashes hit and took me there.

So I have short term memory loss and I might like a hooker?
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Nora craft is somewhat primitive, with the technologies available to the tribe somewhere around the Bronze Age levels.

"Baby chameleons grow fast."
Hm, not sure how to take that.
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From behind him he heard a sound, or thought he did: the stealthy squeak of a shoe.
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Rather, the different sentiments found in the Absolute, either in anger or in mercy, have the same qualitative influence, or, in other words, there is no mundane difference of value because these sentiments are all on the absolute plane.

And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.

Exodus 16:28

Wow, that's some orgasm!

"You are glad?"
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He looked about the cabin but could see very little; strange monstrous shadows loomed and leaped with the tiny flickering flame, but all was quiet.

sounds about right
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This is from a math book.

Adding inside the parentheses moves the function LEFT not right, and subtracting moves the function RIGHT.

It's an annotation in a section called Graphing Function Transformations: Stretches, squishes, flips, and slides

lol
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"Hard frosts lasted into spring, and violent gales brought down the trees of the forests."
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"Bring sweets with you until the end!"
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"Creating adventures is one of the great benefits of being a Dungeon Master."

Yeah. That's pretty accurate.
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Brent, however, on meeting him, whatever shou'd be the Consequence, she went out some Hours before the Time of going to the Playhouse, and took Lodgings in a House not very far from it, intending, that if he shou'd insist on passing some Part of the Night with her, to carry him there, thinking she might with more Security to her Honour entertain him at a Place where she was Mistress, than at any of his own chusing.

all spelling and punctuation kept as is.
from Fantomina and Other Works, written by Eliza Haywood
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"The two critics resigned their offices and more than half the court followed their example."

-Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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Aquila lander.

It's from the imperial armour index: forces of the Astra Militarum.
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"'Roof?' he said once more, questioningly."
-Brave New World
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"Spray soaring in every direction"

- The Ancient One

"May whatever will burst forth!"

-Oedipus Tyrannos
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The closest book to me is a compilation of 3 books so I'll just put the first sentence of each 45th page.

Stephen King writes very scary books.

Most pundits argue that this advantage will be enough for the cable companies to trounce ISDN in the market of the future.

Your manager can't see any of those things, much less measure them, but measure he must, because that is what distinguishes managers from inorganic matter.
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"Bugs use stabbing mouthparts to suck sap from plants or blood from animals."
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"As luck would have it, the moment Mrs. van D. turned around I was shaking my head in a combination of compassion and irony."

Anne Frank's diary was the closest book to me.
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Berserk Vol 3.

Either "AAAA" or "I'll show you the limit.... of a human being."

Nice, but I think one of those super artistic pages without any actual text would've been more fitting.

So I actually got that from my physical copy, but since I have it on my HDD, I'll show you the page.



FUNNILY ENOUGH, that's page 43. Page 45 on my computer is supposedly this:


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"In summary, Confucianism flourished with the support of the samurai in the Edo period, and Confucian concepts, such as loyalty and humanism, permeated samurai society and gradually spread to the general public, resulting in the continuing existence of strong Confucian beliefs in modern Japan."
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"And then when you get there, no one cares at all."

Brain Droppings by George Carlin.

"...even on logs and barrels or planks lashed together with wire."

-Voices from Stalingrad
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I have Dwight Shroot the book here
https://www.amazon.com/100-Deadly-Skills-Operatives-Surviving/dp/147679605X

"Understand and implement self-awareness in order to blend into any environment."

Other topics include disposing of bodies and stealing planes. Really entertaining book.
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in the nick of time
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"The sign is enchanted so that stars wink and slowly drift around the blade."
Baldur's Gate game manual

If I use the closest novel (Wolverine: Nature of the Beast), I get this.
"I'm past the point of feeling pain, so I ignore it."
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"You," she cried.

From Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa.
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"He pushed the cart up under the trailer but the handle wouldn't clear."

Cormac McCarthy The Road
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she stroked his **** lasciviously.
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"All he managed to do was abase himself and thereby divest himself of his last remnant of dignity"
VALIS - Philip K Dick

LOL for reals I couldn't make this up.
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Taking a deep breath he willed himself to speak. “Actually”, he said solemnly, “She’s…not here”.

...This sounds pretty pathetic, lol. And pretty apt as well sadly.

This is a line from a book I'm currently writing. I really only do audiobooks and I'm not near any devices I read on so I just chose my own story since its saved on this computer.
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This first sentence starts on 44 and carries over, so I'll post both it and the next:

"It might have struck her as an inappropriately intimate thing to have done on first acquaintance, but it did not. The gesture was friendly, brief, even rather amusing. All the same, she was glad it was quick."

"Under the optimism, though, ran a current of pessimism."

From "We Interrupt This Program".

Huh...
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Press Ctrl + Home to move the insertion point to the beginning of the document, click anywhere in the History heading, and then click the Paragraph group dialog box launcher.

-Microsoft Office 2013: The Marquee Experience


Sadly I don't own any non-textbooks

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

Press Ctrl + Home to move the insertion point to the beginning of the document, click anywhere in the History heading, and then click the Paragraph group dialog box launcher.

-Microsoft Office 2013: The Marquee Experience


Sadly I don't own any non-textbooks

Kinky.
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"Because I've been doing this for thirty years, and I know it's not possible."
The Hardcore Diaries by Mick Foley.
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Page 45 has no words, so I'll use 46 instead...

"I quickly became friends with the French director and often used to chat with him for hours in his trailer"

"Moreover, she was unsteady on her feet, stumbling and even staggering from side to side."

Sounds about right.

"Let F be the event, getting at least one double six in 24 throws."

From a stats book. Lmao
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"Some practiced moneylending with success."
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich. The House of the Dead. New York: Dell, 1972. Print.

Well, that doesn't make any sense. Let's try the next closest one.

"'Souvenir,' Molly said."
- Gibson, William. Neuromancer. New York: Ace, 1984. Print.

That doesn't work either.

"Now he could go home and explain to the girl that nothing had happened."
- Gaiman, Neil. Neverwhere. New York: Avon, 1998. Print.

There we go.
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"I took you in like a son."

Uhhh
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