No, I don't read softcore porn.

It's World Book Day! Grab the book closest to you right now. Open to page 56 and post the fifth sentence. Don't cherry pick. Pick up the closest book. Don't say what book it is.

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This book is in the bed with me right now. This was tooooooo on point I couldn't resist and I'ma post the whole paragraph.

"Fuck what you heard. You and them silly bitches you be with. They don't know me. They just chickens, a bunch of chickens who ain't got shit to do except run they mouths."

I absolutely LOVE this thread.

"News will be the new entertainment," she said.

I Am Not Sidney Poitier - Percival Everett.

SCNDLS said:

"Fuck what you heard. You and them silly bitches you be with. They don't know me. They just chickens, a bunch of chickens who ain't got shit to do except run they mouths."

Harlepolis said:

I absolutely LOVE this thread.

"News will be the new entertainment," she said.

I Am Not Sidney Poitier - Percival Everett.

I am so not surprised you're reading that.

I was almost afraid to post my quote because it sounds too "Harlequin Romance Novel." It's from -- and this is sheer coincidence -- Beneath the Underdog, Charles Mingus' autobiography.

Lammastide said:

Harlepolis said:

I absolutely LOVE this thread.

"News will be the new entertainment," she said.

I Am Not Sidney Poitier - Percival Everett.

I am so not surprised you're reading that.

I was almost afraid to post my quote because it sounds too "Harlequin Romance Novel." It's from -- and this is sheer coincidence -- Beneath the Underdog, Charles Mingus' autobiography.

I bought the documentary and I'll be watching it this weekend when and IF I get a chance

"She did not compromise anymore"

Lammastide said:

Harlepolis said:

I absolutely LOVE this thread.

"News will be the new entertainment," she said.

I Am Not Sidney Poitier - Percival Everett.

I am so not surprised you're reading that.

I was almost afraid to post my quote because it sounds too "Harlequin Romance Novel." It's from -- and this is sheer coincidence -- Beneath the Underdog, Charles Mingus' autobiography.

Were we supposed to be guessing on the book titles?

SCNDLS said:

Lammastide said:

I am so not surprised you're reading that.

I was almost afraid to post my quote because it sounds too "Harlequin Romance Novel." It's from -- and this is sheer coincidence -- Beneath the Underdog, Charles Mingus' autobiography.

Were we supposed to be guessing on the book titles?

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OMG, it seems like I wrecked this thread

SCNDLS said:

Lammastide said:

I am so not surprised you're reading that.

I was almost afraid to post my quote because it sounds too "Harlequin Romance Novel." It's from -- and this is sheer coincidence -- Beneath the Underdog, Charles Mingus' autobiography.

Were we supposed to be guessing on the book titles?

Not necessarily, but that might make it more fun.

The rule has been clarified to clearly impose upon the answering party the obligation of signing the responses to the interrogatory.

"Runover lines should be indented three or four spaces."

"The other drivers had no real idea of what had happened".

Efan said:

"Runover lines should be indented three or four spaces."

I'm gonna guess the MLA, Chicago or Turabian Publication Styleguide.

Lammastide said:

Efan said:

"Runover lines should be indented three or four spaces."

I'm gonna guess the MLA, Chicago or Turabian Publication Styleguide.

Chicago 14th. It was slightly closer to me than Words into Type.

"Sisqo had agreed to reactivation in Starfleet solely for the duration of the Borg crisis; once the peril had passed, he intended to doff his uniform and return home to Bajor."

In December 1947, two such defenseless villages were chosen for the revival of Wingate's tactics: Deir Ayyub and Beit Affa.

^^ funny that I'm posting after you, I'm listening to that "scatman" song.

Anyways, page 56, 5th sentence you say?...

"Conquesto? Chance folded her arms over her chest, cupping her elbows, and shaking her head."

"I didn't reject or resist discipline, because I saw how discipline led to success."

^ Is that quote from Malcolm X's biography?

Here's mine...

"Ando Hiroshige is the artist who made both the wagon wheel and the plum branch, and the series of prints to which both those images belonged, the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo of 1856-58."

.typo edit

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"Filled you?" he suggested lightly as his small hands sought out her intimate joys.

(Wow - I didn't think I was reading a romance novel! The Palace by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. It's supposed to be about a vampire like the previous novel, Hotel Transylvania.)

Winning was the chance of a lifetime; she would come back with more experience than any local academician.

We cannot conceive intelligence distinct from sensation and perception, which are attributes to organized bodies.

An orba is a cell just big enough to contain one man.

"I don't dwell on nuances here; anything positive at all is good."

"That soft spot was gonna get him dead one day, he didn't look out."

One day Richard said, 'I want to buy you a present. I feel like buying you a present.' And I said, 'Wow! What did we do today that you . . .'

I needed the empty bladder and bowels because there was immediate, rough treatment ahead; my cousins always greeted me with instant acrobatics, if not actual violence, and I needed to brace myself for them, to frighten myself a little in order to be ready for all the future terrors that the vacation held in store for me.

The central nervous system is aptly named.