The hazards of meme-ing at work.

[tanaise]

Page 123 Meme

The rules:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

"And creditors, such as banks and bondholders, are interested in forecasted cash flows because cash flows indicate a firm's ability to repay both short- and long-term debt."

Comments

[rnb.livejournal.com]

Then (*pfa[])() is a direct-dcl and thus a dcl.

HOT.

Also, I'm cluttering your journal instead of mine because I've only got programming books near me.

HOT.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

At least you're using the hot icon.

[teapot-farm.livejournal.com]

"gull [g[u]ll] make c, dumrian c.]

Great. A sentence including two letters that I don't have on this keyboard. The [u] is actually the phonetic symbol that's like an inverted V; the a in 'make' should have a little circle sitting on top. It was a Norwegian dictionary, and yes it was the closest book.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I was totally guessing it was programming as well. :)

[stevenagy.livejournal.com]

It doesn't sound like a page-turner but ... money's involved, so who am I say. :-)

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

It's a best-seller, though. AAA title, top tier support including online algorithmic assessment and a course management system.

Yah, I love these things

[carolhelga.livejournal.com]

I'll put it my LJ, but I wanted to put it here too so folks don't have to go hunting.


"Sure enough, there in the yard was a large closed van, drawn by two horses, with lettering on its side and a sly-looking man in a low-crowned bowler hat sitting on the driver's seat."

Re: Yah, I love these things

[teapot-farm.livejournal.com]

'The Magician's Nephew'??

Re: Yah, I love these things

[carolhelga.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's from Orwell's Animal Farm.

Re: Yah, I love these things

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

they're practically the same thing.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

"The Texas Adoption Project, which has now been in progress for over thirty years, is a highly regarded longitudinal study of more than five hundred adopted children."

or:

"Pieces too large to be used in jewelry are not usually found."

Take your pick!

Catalogs over 1000 pages count as books, right?

[blerkie.livejournal.com]

(Sigma Chemical, 2006-2007)
O0382: Anti-opioid lampda receptor antibody porduced in rabbit, whole antiserum, lyophilized powder, p.1783