And you thought your sentence sucked? Here’s mine:
Phone: (517) 669-4264.
From Chase’s 2000 Calendar of Events .
(contact information for National Cherry Month)
“Do, for Jesus’ sake, Buck Mulligan said.”
If you haven’t guessed, its Ulysses by James Joyce. Odd that it is on my bedside locker considering I haven’t been reading it.
Abans de parlar a ningú vull comprovar els detalls.
Teach Yourself Catalan, Alan Yates. Translated as “Before speaking to anyone, I want to check the details.”
“FAQ Acronym for Frequently Asked Questions.”
I don’t know it that is actually a complete sentence so here is the next one.
“A document that answers the most common queries about a particular subject.”
from The New York Public Library Desk Reference Third Edition.
Just picked up the book that was 2d closest to me, and that is generally the closest to me when here at work:
The most common reasons for a change in your benefit amount are listed below.
20 CFR Parts 400-499
Z-z-z-z-z
“‘Incapable of self-care’ means that the individual requires active assistance or supervision to provide daily self-care in three or more of the ‘activities of daily living,’ such as bathing, dressing and eating or ‘instrumental activities of daily living,’ such as cooking, cleaning, shopping, taking public transportation, paying bills, etc.”
– Family and Medical Leave Handbook, Thompson Publishing Group, Section 1, page 111.
Single barbed fittings minimize leaks by having a smoother sealing surface than multi-barbed fittings.
McMaster-Carr Catalog 110.
Maybe me and Paintcharge can start a book club.
“One constant (various called 0, *, , empty, or nil), together with one unary operation (succ or λn. n + 1), or in general (λt. cons(h, t)) for each element h ∈ X, and no laws.” from “Practical Foundations of Mathematics” by Paul Taylor. (I’ve tried to preserve the formatting, substituting boldface for the occasional special use of a sans serif font)
Not actually a “complete sentence”, as such, but it seemed to be what should count as the eleventh. If not, the next line was “For any other such structure (Θ, z[sub]Θ[/sub], s[sub]Θ[/sub]), listrec defines the unique mediating homomorphism”.
“By contrast, compatible (commuting) observables do admit complete sets of simultaneous eigenfunctions.[sup]18[/sup]”
Griffith’s quantum book, and it just barely fit onto the page. Equations take up a lot of space.
Well the nearest book to me is The Road Atlas by rand McNally.
page 111 is Washington D.C.
There are no sentences, but the 11th entry in text is"Supreme court of the United States, M-9."
"It is important to maintain some great common forms: strong nodes, key paths, or widespread regional homogeneities."
from The Image of the City, by Kevin Lynch
“Intergroup transactions across national borders have grown, causing taxpayers to more aggressively pursue an optimal global effective tax rate.”
Due Diligence for Global Deal Making by Arthur Rosenbloom.
::snore::
“However, existing work commitments precluded their involvement during the case study time period.”
CMMI: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement
No, I’m not reading it - it’s propping up the secondary monitor on my desktop. But it was the closest!
Then the Captain, who was almost carrying him by now, shoved Jack through another burlap curtain and into the hallway beyond.
The Talisman, Stephen King & Peter Straub.
(I’ve done this meme before, but it’s always fun.)
“With fewer men, he warned, he could not ‘guarantee peace.’”
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, by John Womack, Jr.
(I hope I counted the sentences right…)
I’m developing a training for my Program Managers, and this is one of the references. . .
“He has woken from his sleep.”
(Shambala Pocket Classics) DHAMMAPADA The Sayings of the Buddha
Fortunately for me, I happened to have a classy book nearest at hand:
“Indeed, you could argue that the role of the individual is always politically charged, that matters of autonomy and free will and self-determination always drag in the larger society, if only tangentially.”
How to Read Literature Like a Professor - Thomas C. Foster
Biology of the free-living forms is similar to that of Naegleria except that flagella are not known to be produced and Acanthamoeba cannot tolerate water as hot as can Naegleria.
Foundations of Parasitology, Gerald D. Schmidt and Larry S. Roberts
Page 112, because 111 was illustrations
Currently, the best general purpose factoring algorithm for integers with more than 115 digits is the number field sieve, originally suggested by Pollard and improved by Buhler, Lenstra and Pomerance, which uses L(1/3, (64/9)[sup]1/3[/sup]) bit operations.
Elementary Number Theory and its applications 4th edition, Kenneth H. Rosen