The book quote thread ~ a tad silly.

Discussion in 'The Lounge Bar' started by Owen, Dec 5, 2008.

  1. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

  2. Stormbird

    Stormbird Restless

    A geodetic datum is stated by the definition of an ellipsoid and the ellipsoid's position and orientation in relation to the physical globe.

    The geographic language of our age
     
  3. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    Le 6 Janvier 1942 il faisait 41 degrés au-dessous de zéro.

    Paul Carell, Opération Barbarossa vol.2, Ed. Rober Laffont, Paris, 1962
     
  4. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    So long as a man comes through it alive, his agonies and contortions in the act of dodging death are fair game.

    The Irish Guards in the Great War: The Second Battalion, Kipling.
     
  5. Stormbird

    Stormbird Restless

    Note the waypoint number for reference and press ENTER
    (AN/PRC XXX reference card)

    The publication doesn't have 56 pages, so I just picked a random one.
    I honestly don't know why I find this thread so funny, even more amusing than the Jokes one. If it has a diagnosis, please don't tell me !
     
  6. Vitesse

    Vitesse Senior Member

    It is impossible in the scope of this book to describe more than a tithe of the countless events to which Daimler and Benz sent their cars.

    Three-pointed Star by David Scott-Moncrieff, St John Nixon & Clarence Paget (1955 edition)

    How much is a tenth of countless, anyway? :confused:
     
  7. Phaethon

    Phaethon Historian

    "They propose that the concept of a phonological store be replaced be replaced by the concept of perceptual organization, coupled with a rehersal process based on 'gesture planning' which is assumed to be the basis of the phonological similarity effect."

    Baddley, A. (2007) Working memory, thought and action. Oxford, Oxford Psychological Series.
     
  8. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    It is your doom, maybe, to tread strange paths that others dare not.

    Lord of the Rings, vol.III
     
  9. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    Tip: If you want a bunch of page elements to share some but not all of the same formatting properties, then you can create a group selector with the shared formatting options and also create individual rules with unique formatting for each individual element.

    CSS: The missing manual, McFarland
     
  10. KevinC

    KevinC Slightly wierd

    Silicon and Technical Products CC 021 534 9055

    Cape Peninsular Yellow pages
     
  11. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    Wait until a good head of smoke, and then add the trout.

    The Big Book of Fish and Shellfish.
     
  12. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    The Select Image Source window appears (see Figure 1-23).

    Dreamweaver CS4, McFarland
     
  13. Peter Doyle

    Peter Doyle Kriegsgefangener 10111

    Their badge was a white-metal Welsh dragon over the initials 'MY'

    From British Army Cap Badges of the First World War by Peter Doyle and Chris Foster (look, I can't help it if the first book to hand is one 'wot I rote')
     
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  14. Combover

    Combover Guest

    Collective government thus enforces the power of the central executive by imposing on departments the requirement to accept the collective decisions of government whether or not they were involved in or agreed with a decision.

    Governance and Public Policy in the UK.

    I'm a nerd. :mad:
     
  15. Combover

    Combover Guest

    Wait until a good head of smoke, and then add the trout.



    That's a cracking euphemism! :lol:
     
  16. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    It was seldom out of his nostrils for many days to come.

    A coward if I return, A hero if I fall; Richardson
     
  17. Buteman

    Buteman 336/102 LAA Regiment (7 Lincolns), RA

    Instead of the institutional "regularisation" anticipated by Bentinck, there was a simultaneous regression to the hallowed sovereignty of the Holland patricite and a resort to the most blatant forms of personal rule and political manipulation in the land provinces.

    Patriots and Liberators (Revolution in the Netherlands 1780 - 1813) by Simon Schama
     
  18. WhiskeyGolf

    WhiskeyGolf Senior Member

    A makeshift runway cleared of snow, had already alerted the Luftwaffe to the squadron's imminent arrival.

    From Wings of War (Airmen of all Nations Tell their Stories 1939 - 1945) Edited by Laddie Lucas
     
  19. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    It is frequently asserted, particularly in France, that the Clair brothers, Benoit, Jean-Baptiste and Victor, produced the first automatic pistol, indeed invented the automatic pistol.
    Pistols of the World - Ian Hogg & John Weeks.

    (Guess what, they didn't - the Spanish apparently led the field.)
     
  20. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    Are you annoyed when people ask you to touch your tongue to your nose - because you can't?
    The Lowdown on Going Down - Marcy Michaels
     

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