Book Meme
(as witnessed in tomscud's LJ.)
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that cool or intellectual book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.
For example, when Superman takes a lump of coal and compresses it with his hands, applying superforce to turn the coal into a perfect diamond, the value added, represented by Superman's applied strength, is significant. The term explains how wealth is created; it's also what you use to justify all those hours you've been putting in on the Super-Pullover machine.
VALUE-ADDED TAX: Like the name says, a tax on the value added.
All of the books closest to my computer are reference books. This one was Jones and Wilson, An Incomplete Education. Oh, and I just realized I turned to page 124 instead of 123, but I just put in all that effort to type that stuff in, so it's staying put.
I rarely got the opportunity to buy comics when I was a kid, so I never read much Superman. In the only one I read where Superman squeezed coal into a diamond, a nearby construction worker was turned into a living human-shaped diamond as a side effect, apparently because the squiggily lines coming out of Superman's hand as he exerts superforce can transform human beings into diamonds at a distance. As long as they are made of coal, I suppose.
Boy, Superman was sorry he did that, because diamond is the hardest substance on earth! The Man of Diamond kicked The Man of Steel's butt!
ADDENDUM:
Naturally, after all that typing, I posted the message with the incredible phrase "VALUE-ADDED YAX". I wonder if that's an eastern pack animal?
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that cool or intellectual book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.
For example, when Superman takes a lump of coal and compresses it with his hands, applying superforce to turn the coal into a perfect diamond, the value added, represented by Superman's applied strength, is significant. The term explains how wealth is created; it's also what you use to justify all those hours you've been putting in on the Super-Pullover machine.
VALUE-ADDED TAX: Like the name says, a tax on the value added.
All of the books closest to my computer are reference books. This one was Jones and Wilson, An Incomplete Education. Oh, and I just realized I turned to page 124 instead of 123, but I just put in all that effort to type that stuff in, so it's staying put.
I rarely got the opportunity to buy comics when I was a kid, so I never read much Superman. In the only one I read where Superman squeezed coal into a diamond, a nearby construction worker was turned into a living human-shaped diamond as a side effect, apparently because the squiggily lines coming out of Superman's hand as he exerts superforce can transform human beings into diamonds at a distance. As long as they are made of coal, I suppose.
Boy, Superman was sorry he did that, because diamond is the hardest substance on earth! The Man of Diamond kicked The Man of Steel's butt!
ADDENDUM:
Naturally, after all that typing, I posted the message with the incredible phrase "VALUE-ADDED YAX". I wonder if that's an eastern pack animal?