# Grab the book nearest you. Right now. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 9, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901 "2010-03-09T20:52:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/81 "2010-03-10T00:50:35Z")
However, there is no appeal under section 97 from a decision to set aside an opinion, except where the appeal relates to a part of the opinion that is not set aside. _Terrell on the law of patents_ Wow that was borning and incomprehensible taken out of context. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/82 "2010-03-10T00:51:07Z")
When [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) was first created, two schools of thought existed. Pro [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) 3.5 in c# 2008 (includes Silverlight 2) third edition. Matthew McDonald and Mario Szpuszta. ---
**Author:** ![Mirasol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Mirasol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirasol)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/83 "2010-03-10T00:52:14Z")
But Timulty wouldn’t even lift one eyelid, and the brawler was held off and when everyone had a new drink in them and the near-fistfights had drained away, one loud clear voice, Finn’s, declared: “Now would you mind explaining the criminal comparison you have just made in the clean air of my honorable pub?” _I Sing the Body Electric_ by Ray Bradbury Excerpt is from the story, “The Cold Wind and the Warm” ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/84 "2010-03-10T00:58:40Z")
“If the disposition results from a formal adjudication and probation, the juvenile must comply with conditions of probation as imposed by the court.” Corrections in the Community by Edward Latessa & Paula Smith. A book I needed for grad school that now serves as a monitor stand. ---
**Author:** ![Bartman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bartman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bartman)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/85 "2010-03-10T01:00:51Z")
His voice boomed hollowly down the street, and it seemed to him that after that the bus was driven more positively, more steadily. The Spider - Robot Titans of Gotham, chapter 9 - Battle of the Giants by Novell Page Not too bad, but it is one of the only sentences on the page that doesn’t have a direct reference to a robot on it. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/86 "2010-03-10T01:06:39Z")
Since the “book nearest me _at work_” didn’t pan out too well, I’m now submitting the “_at home_” version: **"It is made is made by turning your back the thrower, then snagging the disc as it passes."** From Frisbee By The Masters (describing what is called a “trailing” catch). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/87 "2010-03-10T01:14:42Z")
“In 1843 another church was established in the Coosa County territory near Alabama Town (now called the Titus Community) and was named the Methodist Episcopal Church of the South.” From **The Heritage of Elmore County, Alabama** ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/88 "2010-03-10T01:15:20Z")
He might have said that nothing would please him more than that she should accompany him, that the appointment could go to the devil and he would stay with her. _Mrs. Craddock_, Somerset Maugham ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/89 "2010-03-10T01:16:31Z")
“Today, Indonesia is the most populous Islamic nation on earth; only Bali retains the original Hindu faith of the medieval Indies.” _Hammond Atlas of the World,_ 1998 ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/90 "2010-03-10T01:21:55Z")
“The complicated analytic expressions for the CIRCUMRADII of these solids are given in the entries for the SNUB CUBE and SNUB DODECAHEDRON. from the Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics.” Obviously for a given value of “concise”. I don’t even know why I own this book. I count on my fingers. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/91 "2010-03-10T02:12:41Z")
“Repeat rows 3-7 to the desired size, ending with row 6.” _Shaped Beadwork_ by Diane Fitzgerald. That’s actually the ninth sentence. It was the last one on the page. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/92 "2010-03-10T02:14:24Z")
“Don’t worry,” she said. _Books of Blood_, by Clive Barker ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/93 "2010-03-10T02:21:11Z")
“therefore, we again experience some existential guilt over our inability to fully be-” Prochaska & Norcross, _Systems of Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Analysis_ (7th ed.). You asked. ---
**Author:** ![dre2xl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@dre2xl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dre2xl)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/94 "2010-03-10T02:25:14Z")
[QUOTE=Skies of Dawn] Ah, how majestic my father looked in his finery! [/quote] … that does sound creepy on all its own. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/95 "2010-03-10T02:26:30Z")
He has good size and the speed to run with receivers, and should develop into a starter after some seasoning. from _The Pro Football Prospectus2008_ Why yes, I AM behind on cleaning out the bookshelf. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/96 "2010-03-10T02:28:02Z")
“Hammering iron has two effects: first it squeezes out most impurities, including what is known as “slag,” a dirty brown or gray substance formed from mixing with lime or limestone; second it reduces the carbon content of the iron, leaving only small amounts of silicon and slag, both of which protect the wrought iron from becoming too soft.” Cohen, Richard _By the Sword_ ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/97 "2010-03-10T02:30:55Z")
'Several alternative forms of such equations are found in the engineering literature." - Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, Moran and Shapiro The equations in question are the specific heat functions. I’m doing homework, and in a bizarre coincidence, page 111 happens to contain the topic that I wanted to look up to verify something. Very weird. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/98 "2010-03-10T02:32:46Z")
Dang – Scrabble dictionary, American Heritage dictionary, Random House dictionary, Chicago Manual (which someone else did already), thesaurus, _Word Menu, Famous Name Finder, Crossword Answer Book, Complete Crossword Word Finder._… Ah, okay, Barbara Damrosch’s _Garden Primer_: “But you don’t know if they’ve been neglected often, thus permanently weakening the plant.” ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_McCello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Alistair\_McCello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alistair_McCello)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/99 "2010-03-10T02:38:07Z")
“So little did bin Laden regard himself as the Arab Afghan’s chief that he was surprised by two realities he encountered when he arrived in Saudi Arabia – sometime in July or August 1989 – both of which flowed from his war record.” From _Through Our Enemies Eyes_ by Michael Scheuer ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/100 "2010-03-10T02:41:36Z")
The closest book is Frederik L. Schodt’s _Dreamland Japan: Writings on modern manga_ (written in 1996, so not all that modern anymore). Page 111 does not have 11 complete sentences (part of the page is taken up by an image, and Schodt likes long sentences), but the last sentence is “The man generally credited for this is Akira Suei, a director and editor-in-chief of the maverick publishing firm Byakuya Shobō and a minor legend in the publishing world.” (on the subject of the first magazines devoted entirely to [pachinko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko)) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901.md?page=6)