Bookworm meme
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1. Grab the nearest book
(that would be The Sailor's Word-Book, written by Admiral W.H. Smyth in 1867, reprinted in 2004, thank god)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences along with these instructions:
(Well, I'm going to amend this, as the book's a dictionary of sorts, and pick the three sentence-block following the fifth sentence that makes some sort of sense.)
Tide-bound, or be-neaped. Wind-bound--prevented from sailing by contrary wind--Where are you bound to? Bound on a cruise. A corruption of the old word bowne, which is still in use on the northern coasts, and means to make ready, to prepare.
(Ah, the history you can learn by reading old books....)
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! (Or, knowing some of my friends, on their bookshelves.) I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
You people are lucky it wasn't Gardening with Conifers or Manual of Woody Landscape Plants. Though Steven Pavlidis's The Exuma Guide has some pretty interesting passages.
6. Tag 5 people.
If you're reading this, consider yourself tagged!
jimvanpelt)1. Grab the nearest book
(that would be The Sailor's Word-Book, written by Admiral W.H. Smyth in 1867, reprinted in 2004, thank god)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences along with these instructions:
(Well, I'm going to amend this, as the book's a dictionary of sorts, and pick the three sentence-block following the fifth sentence that makes some sort of sense.)
Tide-bound, or be-neaped. Wind-bound--prevented from sailing by contrary wind--Where are you bound to? Bound on a cruise. A corruption of the old word bowne, which is still in use on the northern coasts, and means to make ready, to prepare.
(Ah, the history you can learn by reading old books....)
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! (Or, knowing some of my friends, on their bookshelves.) I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
You people are lucky it wasn't Gardening with Conifers or Manual of Woody Landscape Plants. Though Steven Pavlidis's The Exuma Guide has some pretty interesting passages.
6. Tag 5 people.
If you're reading this, consider yourself tagged!
