<sheep>bahhhh</sheep>. Here’s the deal:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 23.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence on your blog along with these instructions.
Depending on how you count it, my fifth sentence is either “Today they perform strenuous verbal feats to escape that fate.” or “Watch them wriggle through TV interviews without committing themselves.”
A cookie to the first person to guess the book. Hint: the author’s initials are W.Z.
In other news, Dougal hints at a secret. Don’t click. The Zeldmans finally announce their new joy.
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Wow, that was fast.
This thing is taking over all blogs 😮
Well it is the perfect meme. Esoteric enough to appeal to all ranges of bloggers. It capitalizes on the essence of blogging: talking about yourself. Let’s people share what they’re reading, and people often try to impress each other with what they’re reading. It’s easy. The rules dictate spread.
Come on man, everyone’s doing it.
Here goes.rnrn 1. Grab the nearest book.rn 2. Open the book to page 23.rn 3. Find the fifth sentence.rn 4. Post the text of the sentence on your blog along with these instructions.rnrnOkay, so the nearest book is a poetry antholog…
woo! my first trackback… because i needed a reason. 🙂
Basically a cookie went to whomever knew to Google search the quickest/was at your site first too:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Today+they+perform+strenuous+verbal+feats+to+escape+that+fate
I remember it being on your bookshelf as well, new fan to the site, listening via RSS and inspired by your design and code prowess. 🙂
Ain’t that the damn truth! 🙂
Hm… That was supposed to have been blockquoted…
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Here’s the deal:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence on your blog along with these instructions.
And my sentence:
Apart from its use as a separator betwe…
If someone at Amazon Marketing didn’t invent this, they should have. Amazon’s “Search inside the book” feature would find such quotes more reliably than anything else (at the moment), Google included.
In other, other news, Jeffrey and Carrie have exciting news about a forthcoming arrival!
What the heck’s a meme anyway?
Since there’s no Friday Five this week… How about this:
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence on your blog along with these instructions.
“Are you serious,…
Page 23 Sentence 5
rnDoug, rnGreg, rnJon, rnKeith, rnMatt, rnMike, rnSergio, rnSharif, andrnShaun made me do it:rnrnrn Grab the nearest book.rn Open the book to page 23.rn Find the fifth sentence.rn Post the text of the sentence in …
Blog-Epidemie
Everybody’s doing it.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence on your blog along with these instructions.
Games impedimenta – hockey sticks, boxing gloves, a burst …
23rd Page
I do love meme’s. After seeing both chris and the famed Matt Mullenweg with this here meme, I gave into popular pressure. So, here’s the deal:
grab the nearest book
Open the book to page 23
find the fifth sentence
post the sentence on…
“Baaah” — 23rd Page
I wasn’t going to, but I couldn’t resist:
The instructions are:
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence on your blog along with these instructions.
Here’s Mine:T…
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