It's international book week: grab the book nearest you, open it to page 52 and type in the 5th sentence.
"The word _mouse_ is used as such an endearment in English as early in the Elizabethan period (1567) as above, and at times it too takes on an equivocal sense."

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Bold those books you've read in their entirety and Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.

( there should be formatting for having seen the movie )

Kitchen gadget meme, gakked from madbaker
Take the following list, and: Bold items you have, and use at least once a year. Italicize the ones you have, but don't use. Strike through the ones you had, but have gotten rid of.
pasta machines, breadmakers (on loan to mom), juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, ( Read more... )

Rules: Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime. Underline a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it. If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order), but you must delete one show for each one that you add.

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This is the same book meme that went around in June of 2008, but since I've read a few more books, I guess it's worth updating:

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Another music meme, gakked from Vittorioso.

Rules:
1. Put your MP3 player, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS. [I've tried to keep additional commentary to a minimum :-)]
4. Tag some friends! (Tag me, too, ( Read more... )

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Lists of must-do movies/books/food always fascinate me, for some reason. I suppose it's because I always end up wondering why that movie made someone's list.
This list is Yahoo's 100 Movies to See Before You Die: The Modern Classics. To play along with the meme, paste the list into your own journal, bolding the ones you've seen, and italicizing the ( Read more... )

Gakked from The LBK
thread_walker, thank you for the funny stories about your kids. blondefeather, thank you for the pickels at Crown, they were lovely. gurdymonkey thank you for the occasional haiku. metageek, thank you (again) for one of my favorite quotes, "I'm not a bibliophile, I'm a bibliophiliac; when I go into a bookstore my wallet bleeds." ( Read more... )