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[lillibet]

It's a meme...

Grab the book closest to you. Turn to page 123. Look at the fifth sentence. What does it say?

Take, for a single but not a random instance, the example of Denys Winterset, twenty-three years old, Winchester, Oriel College, younger son of a well-to-do doctor and in 1956 ending a first year as assistant district commissioner of police in Bechuanaland.

from "Great Work of Time," in Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction by John Crowley

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[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

"Consecrates your weapon, inflicting 90 to 112 additional damage on your next attack."

That was fun. ;-)

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

Tuition fees run from DM17,000-20,000 a year, not including transport, registration, and other fees, which could jack up the final price by another DM5,000 a year.

From Culture Shock! Germany, by Richard Lord. The section is on foreign language schools in Germany, and the book was published in 1996.

meme

[wrensis.livejournal.com]

Keep arms parallel in each of the three positions (very Important)
Richard Hittleman's Yoga

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

It can be used to articulate a sacred or singular space within a room.

The "it" of the subject is "elevated plane," as in "An elevated plane can be used to..."

[breadd.livejournal.com]

"If you dereference a string value, Perl will return the value of the variable with the name given in the string."

Which is actually a pretty cool thing. The four sentences prior to that, though, are about "auto-vivification" which is pretty great name for what it is.

From Effective Perl Programming, by Hall and Schwartz.

This might have been a better meme to answer when I'm not at my desk at the office...