Book meme

[pbray]

Gacked from everyone.

Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

The outside of the container must be labeled ORM-D, Cartridges, Small Arms.
--Handbook of Forensic Services, U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Laboratory Division

Comments

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

I took your challenge. I, too, had research materials closest. Probably because at least in my case, it was a book you might reach for in mid-chapter and not want to have to get up and look around for...

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

We conclude with deprecating the addition of -ly to participles in -ed.
--H.W. & F.G. Fowler, The King's English, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1931; reprint, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1973)

I think CanOx was actually closer, but CanOx is much too heavy to grab with one hand without getting up ;^).