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From: Wincing Devil
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 06:11 PM

24 Pirates at Execution Dock, London

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From: Riginslinger
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 04:41 PM

"Well, if a lot of mysterious niggers armed with all kinds of fearful weapons suddenly took to travelling on the road betweeen Deal and Gravesnd, catching the yokels right and left to carry heavy loads for them, I fancy every farm and cottage thereabouts would get empty very soon."

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From: alison
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 01:41 AM

this river was obviously new.

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From: Neil D
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 01:22 AM

It's the best you'll get.

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From: Micca
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 11:47 AM

"Sapho" replied Hebe "I am not trying to be funny, things are funny enough, Theres a horse,or something very much like a horse in the major's bed"
The Stray Lamb by Thorne Smith

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From: maire-aine
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 11:34 AM

askew (adv or adj): out of line

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From: menzze
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 11:19 AM

Er sagte, das das Lernen durch Gespräche nicht nur unnütz, sondern eine Dummheit sei,weil das Lernen die schwierigste Aufgabe sei, der sich ein Mann zuwenden könne.

menzze

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From: Wolfgang
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 10:46 AM

Am Morgen des 2. Juni flog Reza Pahlevi nach Berlin.

Wolfgang

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From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 08:28 AM

He had no idea what 'professional' life was like until he landed up there and landed the show with people like Robeson on the stage, and that was a whole new world for him to encounter."

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From: Monique
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 07:01 AM

"One of these skirts (fig.2.6), made of woolen cords stained a rich brown by the acidic groundwater that preserved it, is complete; we can inspect its mode of manufacture."

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From: kendall
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 07:01 AM

"Your not going to screw me are you, Ray"? (The Summons by John Grisham)

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From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 06:14 PM

Amos, Amos, Amos...

A story of a young innocent who gains great power and sets out to right the wrongs of the world- but is tangled in the various power plays of all the various power groups.


Sort of like the Obama story, you see.

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From: Amos
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 06:10 PM

BB"s appears to be from Eldest by Christopher Paolini. A contemporary dragon-and-dungeons fantasy fiction work. Similar to the New American Century plan in that respect.


A

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From: Amos
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 05:41 PM

"Reading a Jane Austen novel does not require the same kind of effort or editorial elaboration as is needed to understand Shakespeare".

The Cambridge Cyclopedia of the English Language, David Crystal, Cambridge University Press, 1995

There, now!! Isn't that impressive?


Strictly by the rules, that one came from a bookshelf across the room. Applying the "nearest book to hand" rule produces:

"The four-dimensional mode of consideration of the "world" is natural on the theory of relativity, since according to this theory, time is robbed of its independence."

"Relativity--The Special and the General Theory: A Clear Explanation That Anyone Can Understand", A. Einstein, Crown Publishers, NY, 1961

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From: Charmion
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 04:53 PM

While they had been told that Mercier and Boisdeffre were convinced, the evidence was thin; it proved nothing.

"The Dreyfus Trials" by Guy Chapman, Paladin Books, 1974

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From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 01:11 PM

"All the lanterns were shuttered halfway so that a cool twilight suffused the air, lending an ethereal feel to the event."

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From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 01:05 PM

"GUEST,heric
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 09:39 PM

beardedbruce: Yours was "How to Give a Hand Job to a Man," by Bruce Kelly, Navigant Press 2004. "


Nope, 70 years too late...

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From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 08:49 PM

beardedbruce, lol

And, of course, Jim Dixon is right. Mine came from 'Anything for Billy'. When I grocery shop I frequently stop in at the Salvation Army across the street and select a book to read during my lunch at the deli.

I've chosen some clunkers - some I didn't ever finish - but I've also found some gems. Larry McMurtry's book is one of them. I enjoyed the protagonist.

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From: GUEST,heric
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 09:39 PM

beardedbruce: Yours was "How to Give a Hand Job to a Man," by Bruce Kelly, Navigant Press 2004.

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From: John O'L
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 08:31 PM

At a guess he was one of Tom's colleagues anyway.

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From: Rog Peek
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 01:36 PM

Or mine Jim.   Still waiting.................

Rog

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From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 12:02 AM

Jim,

So how about mine??

8-{E

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From: HuwG
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 11:14 PM

My soporific contribution came from Late Quaternary Environmental Change: Physical & Human Perspectives, by Martin Bell and Michael J. C. Walker

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From: Jim Dixon
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 04:25 PM

You can identify most of the books that have been quoted here by using Google Book Search:

"But that does not necessarily make us 'right' or 'wrong,' and in any case right or wrong has surprisingly little to do with criticism."
--The New York Times Guide to the Arts of the 20th Century: 1980-1999, by D. J. R. Bruckner

"By 1595 power in Ulster was in the hands of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who proclaimed himself Prince of Ulster after securing backing from Spain."
--Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order by Niall Ferguson

"At length, however, I took courage, and did not hesitate to step firmly — endeavoring to cross in as direct a line as possible."
--The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

"Then he put the head back in its place and took the arms and legs that he had taken off and put them all back in their places."
--Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade

"I had averted my eyes so successfully from the retching, clawing brats that I had failed to catch this fact."
--Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry

"Chil saw that the monkeys were carrying something, and dropped a few hundred yards to find out whether their load was good to eat."
--The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

"The key word in this question stem is evolution, which directs you to paragraph 4's discussion of localized evolution."
--Kaplan PCAT 2008-2009: Pharmacy College Admission Test

"You can focus the discussion on one section of the bucket using questions like: What happens to you as the level rises?"
--Health Behavior Change: A Guide for Practitioners by Stephen Rollnick et al.

"The Sage variable is still not used or validated for the sake of saving book space."
--PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide by Larry Ullman

"He had left out that Boheme, and perhaps he had also left out his Traviata in which Violetta and Alfredo go around in bikinis and she sings 'Sempre libera' sitting on a toilet."
--Wobegone Boy by Garrison Keillor

"In the Cell Link Box, type the name CheckBoxLink and click OK."
--Excel Hacks: Tips & Tools for Streamlining Your Spreadsheets by David Hawley and Raina Hawley


(I hope I haven't spoiled anybody's fun.)

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From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 04:04 PM

Mistress Susan's Whips?

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From: Rog Peek
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 12:41 PM

No luck with the first book I tried. So I tried again.

(e) Top ladies chain. They take inside arms in the centre, turn clockwise under opposite gent's left arm while they both turn anticlockwise, chain in the centre again and dance under their own partner's left arm, going anticlockwise around him while he faces in.          (8 bars)

No prizes, but what's the book called?

Rog

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From: ClaireBear
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 12:39 PM

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional.

J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, just opened

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From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 11:44 AM

~Imagination is an illusion of reality which conceives of reality as an assembly of small pieces of seperate entities and selves.~


The first book I grabbed -The Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh- was book marked at page 56- Ahh-another...oddity.

Peace.
Rustic

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From: GUEST,KP
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 06:39 AM

'The Greenhouse effect leads to global warming at a time when temperatures are already higher than they have been for 400,000 years'

Ecology: From Individuals to EcoSystems. Begon, Townsend, Harper

Propped up under my desk....

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From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 06:25 AM

"I thought you were a lawyer?"

Steve Berry: The Templar Legacy

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From: HuwG
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 05:36 AM

Beyond the limits of these glaciers and ice sheets, detailed records of the pattern of climatic changes during the last cold stage have been found in the Netherlands, Belgium and parts of north-west Germany in the form of sedimentary sequences of lacustrine, fluvial and aeolian deposits interrupted by periglacial structures (West, 1988).

Zzzzzz!

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From: GUEST,Fossil in NZ
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 10:17 PM

All right, I'll grant you: Hitler wasn't born in Blankenese.

John Le Carre: "A Most Wanted Man"

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From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 03:13 PM

"The effect, when the job is properly done, is pleasing."

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From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 08:40 AM

"throughtout your score. In the standing position you anchor your feet."
                               --National Rifle Association, "Basic
                               Small Arms Instruction (Washington, DC:
                               1943).

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From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 01:42 AM

"His voice seemed to come from far away."

Clean Cabbage In The Bucket.

Seamus

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From: GUEST,astro
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 01:21 AM

Of a telephone screaming its little heart out,

oh robert penn warren, you have such a way with words....\\

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From: Cats
Date: 08 Dec 08 - 03:31 PM

A clause that is a restraint of trade is unenforceable, but a clause that protects an employers legitimate business interests is allowed.
'Law at Work' 2008

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From: Tinker
Date: 07 Dec 08 - 04:46 PM

"The young child's characteristic patterns of thought have a kind of integrity of their own that justifies our speaking of this as a stage."

"Stage of Faith" by James W. Fowler (Harper One)

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From: michaelr
Date: 07 Dec 08 - 03:11 PM

"Install the No. 2 and No. 3 timing belt covers."

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From: alanabit
Date: 07 Dec 08 - 02:50 PM

"I doubt it," I said, blowing a despondent smoke ring.

"Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves", by P.G.Wodehouse. (Arrow Books)

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From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 Dec 08 - 02:46 PM

Mrs. Meadows moves about the kitchen trying to restore order. "Boys, boys, boys, relax. Eat your breakfast and be nice."

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From: Celtaddict
Date: 07 Dec 08 - 02:29 PM

And roughly equidistant again, by my feet,
'Streams of wisdom of white God from my fair-brown, fine hand sally, on the page they splash their flood in ink of the green-skinned holly.'

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From: Celtaddict
Date: 07 Dec 08 - 02:25 PM

The above was on my left. Equidistant on my right yields
'We tried it first mounted on a truck.'

Also improved by the preceding sentence, 'The distinctive feature is that, by using two intersecting beams, Platt gets a stereoscopic effect and can chart the major discontinuities at any distance underground that he wants.'

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From: Celtaddict
Date: 07 Dec 08 - 02:22 PM

"...It did fly over toward the curb to the left and to the rear," he said.

This sentence is a good deal more gripping when paired with the preceding one: "That which appeared to be a portion of the President's skull went flying slightly to the rear of the President's car and directly to its left..." Mark Lane, Rush to Judgment

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From: Alice
Date: 06 Dec 08 - 04:09 PM

In one corner stood the big brewing copper in which Sally still brewed with good malt and hops once a quarter.

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From: ClaireBear
Date: 06 Dec 08 - 04:04 PM

Like me, my father had a penchant for picking up his reading material in thrift shops. Usually he had infallible good thrift shop karma, but I suppose everyone slips up now and again. I will duly give it a pass. Thanks for your sage advice!

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From: Rapunzel
Date: 06 Dec 08 - 04:02 PM

There is an increased risk to health when waist circumference exceeds 94cm (37 inches) for men and 80cm (32 inches) for women.


MacLeod's Clinical Examination - 11th edition.

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From: GUEST,heric
Date: 06 Dec 08 - 03:34 PM

Actually it looks as if that was published the same day that the book was published. So he or she was paid to do an advance review, and I guess interest fell fast. I'd say don't read it, guilt-free. There are way too many great books that we will never have time to read.

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From: ClaireBear
Date: 06 Dec 08 - 03:13 PM

Cheaper than a flight to Tulsa, but still outside my paramenters, alas. Cool that gou could find that information, thjough -- and so quickly too! I'm very impressed, Heric.

I guess that means someone actually read it once. Wow. Of course, that someone was presumably getting paid...

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From: GUEST,heric
Date: 06 Dec 08 - 03:07 PM

It was reviewed in the New York Times on January 27, 1949, and you can read the review for a mere $3.95 at:

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50C1FF83958177B93C5AB178AD85F4D8485F9&scp=8&sq=Elephant%20and%20Castle&st=cse

(No abstract or excerpt is available.)