Thursday, August 03, 2006
Tagged.
Andrew has tagged ourselves to undertake the following task.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your Blog/Live Journal 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.
OK sunshine we're game. Here goes. We looked at the midden of publications close to hand, bypassed the collected works of Derrida, the Boy's Own Manual 1958 and the 1968 Miller's Guide and picked up a highly appropriate magnum opus. One of the first blogs committed to print and a book which set a world record for the shortest time any publication hit the remaindered bin - two weeks before it was published.
"The Rant of the Week Omnibus. Issue One. The Prelude to War.", authored (in no order of culpability) by Brian Hughes, Terry Sedgwick, Lynne Lancaster, Kevin Coffee, Paul Morgan, Joseph Petrenyi, Peggy Farcus, Great Grandma Hughes, Brenda Bulldyke, Green Fairy and Brian Weaver.
The four sentences below sprang forth from the splenetic mind and gnarled claw of Great Grandma Hughes. Following a prolonged libel action, "Hanging" Judge Jeffries ordered that in addition to the twenty thousand guineas awarded to object of her vitriol, Dame Peggy Farcus (dec.) Brian's Great Grandma Hughes should serve the four sentences concurrently, a judgment that took into account her advanced years. Great Grandma Hughes was 167 at the time of sentencing.
Part the next. "Mr Phelps, and the five others hereby named, your mission...should you choose to accept it ... is to do as is set out above. This tag will self-destruct in 10 seconds. Good luck."
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