h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Grab the book nearest you, turn to page 23 and post the 5th line of the book here.

Mine is:
"Gudgeon pin type: fully floating, outer diameter 0.8123 to 0.8125 inch"

competency covering objectives applicable to that year. a profes-

Maybe should mention the title of the book at hand?

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'him, and we do not know what evidence was available to the writers'

*feet below. As your boat draws in closer, the roar and the mist*

The Curve of Time, M. Wylie Blanchet

"...move beyond the limited aspirations of a barely literate family. Her..."

The Bugatti Queen - in search of a motor-racing legend.
Miranda Seymour

Nach dem Smirgeln der Kanten nageln Sie

ok, it's instructions for making two decorative wooden kites for the garden

"certain types of software. These instructions are mainly aimed at high-"

How to build your own PC - R A Penfold. (I'm not sure that RA Penfold is a real person, he seems to have written hundreds of technical books on a wide variety of subjects).

PP

And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your

PP - that's not published by Bernard Babani by any chance? They had so many books on hacking stuff together

yes it is a Babani book, number 478 as it happens.

PP

and expensive kind, and served by a group of deformed and dwarfish

"The Visitor" Sheri S. Tepper

Later, when Amphitryon himself arrived he quickly realised that something

Who's Who Classical Mythology (My other half's book)

He replied "No, a caution means that we are going to keep a



The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

One day a handsome prince passes by the tower and tells Rapunzel of her loveliness

Guide to being happy-Andrew Matthews

+ a=+b 2 Unary plus

(It's in a table, if you're wondering, of the priorities of mathematical calculations in the C language in the book 'Learning to program in C', by N Kantaris).

(On another note, would it be a good idea to extend this conversation so that the next person has to guess where the quote comes from?)

A complex sentence is a sentence made up of one main

Harbrace College Handbook - John c Hodges & Mary E Whitten.

Guessing the source might be a bit tough -- given the millions of possible sources.

F S

I have plenty more books to hand. Here are some more...

'up the processes of nature' - Jostein Gaarder in Sophie's World.

'in the world of Wonderland' - Michio Kaku in Hyperspace.

'motion into the story, we have opened the door for the time' - Richard Price's introduction to the Future of Space-time.

'that she will later, as an old woman, give to him' - J. Richard Gott in the book Time Travel in Einstein's Universe.

'script, the editor of the journal, Max Planck, realized that the accepted' - Brian Greene in The Elegant Universe.

By the way, do magazines count? If they do, the latest issue of New Scientist has this:

'engineers at the Helsinki'.

And issue 37 of Linux User magazine has this:

'penguins are there because the South Atlantic is where they'...

And the March issue of Linux Format magazine says this:

'lark by now so, as an extra test we roped'

And I bet that the next person will very easily be able to determine where this quote comes from:

'-erning dependency of the UK. Anguillan (adjec-'

Oh and how about this idea: if somebody posted page 23, line 5 as well as line 7 in the same book, the next person could suggest something interesting that might have existed on line 6? Just an idea. I really like the concept of this thread.

OK BB have a go;

Line 5
knee. She said she did not remember she did; and she said: "She...

Line 7
and I may'" said she, "be as soon persuaded that your apparition is


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