Quick excerpt

Because Jen and Jen said to:

Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

OK, Here it is:

Fred, George, and Ginny were nowhere to be seen, though the path was packed with plenty of other people, all looking nervously over their shoulders toward the commotion back at the campsite. A huddle of teenagers in pajamas was arguing vociferously a little way along the path. When they saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione, a girl with thick curly hair turned and said quickly, "Où est Madame Maxime? Nous l'avons perdue — "

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Comments

[Amber]

The Italian Lesson was forgotten for a block or two as they were swept along in a wave of students hustling to and from their classes. Marco caught himself looking for an old man with bright gray hair- his favorite Communist, his fist real acquaintance since walking out of prison. He had already made up his mind to see Rudolph again.

At 22 Via Zamboni, Marco stopped and gazed at a sign between the door and a windo: FACOLTA DI GIURISPRUDENZA.

'Is this law school?' he asked.

'Si'

Rudolph was somewhere inside, no doubt sperading left-wing dissent among his impressionable students.

They ambled on, in no hurry as they continued to play name that thing and enjoy the energy of the street.

THE BROKER
John Grisham

[bothenook]

Fittings are compatible with Swagelok, Parker A-Lok, and Let-Lok fittings. Made of forged or bar stock yell brass. Fittings inculde body, front and back sleeves, and nut.

McMaster-Carr Catalog 111

[bothenook]

that would be YELLOW brass, not yell brass. yell brass is what happens when a spent cartridge from the shooter next to you drops down your collar. then it's a lot of yelling.

[Jen]

[Squealing!] Love love LOVE Harry Potter!

[Alison]

Lefty? Hell, they're all called that! Which one you want? Big Lefty? Little Lefty? Fat Lefty? Skinny Lefty?

Page 123 of the Left-Hander's Handbook by James T. de Kay, in illustration (complete with drawing, of course, of an old woman speaking to a young man who's looking for "Lefty") of the text on page 122: Older mothers are more likely to produce left-handed children than younger mothers.

Funny, my mother had me when she was 34, which is my age now, and I'm a southpaw. I had my kids when I was 24 and 27, and they're both left-handed. I love genetics.

[Allan]

Your parents passed on some excellent genes.

I love genetics, too.

[Jumpy Girl]

The idea is, we're going to the first potluck after a nuclear holocaust: Portland's semiannual Apocalypse Cafe.

Marcie says, "I hope nobody has to use the bathroom, because the toilet facilities at teh event are a little primative. They're what you'd expect after the end of civilization."

FROM: "Fugitives and Refugees" by Chuck Palahniuk

[Jumpy Girl]

Poster's note: It is *I* who cannot spell the word 'the', not Mr. Palahniuk.

:^P

{JG}

[Lee]

And therefore from my face she turns my foes, That they elsewhere might dart their injuries:
Yet do not so; but since I am near slain,
Kill me out-right with looks, and rid my pain.

"The love poems of Shakespeare".

[Yibbyl]

In my prairie town, the upland sandpipers and the bobolinks are mostly gone and the meadowlarks become rarer every year, but I now see plenty of robins and eastern bluebirds. White pelicans no longer nest there, but wood ducks do, in artificial nests. The gray wolf is extinct, but the coyote has moved east to replace it.

"The Necessity of Empty Places"
Paul Gruchow

[Kadnine]

Because the form of ownership determines how the property can be reconveyed later, it is very important that the licensee to get it right the first time. Although the forms of ownership available are controlled by state laws, a fee simple estate may be held in three basic ways:

1. In severalty where title is held by one individual.

From Modern Real Estate Practice Sixteenth Ed.

(I'm about 75% of the way through the course.)