A new game/waste of time...

Apparently a pleasingly random thing to do online is to pick up the book/publication nearest to you at this point, turn to page 23... and post the 5th sentence on that page on this (or any other) message board...

Hmmmm

This cutting-edge, uber-zeitgeisty trend was introduced to me by Toots.

Who saw it on some weirdo/oddball site she visits.

(Fulla sad-acts, nearly-weres, freaks, dangerous loners and outright fuckin nutcases - nothing like here )

Bein as how she hollered the necessary information through the locked bathroom door as i was enjoying a quick commune with my maker...

(A persistent little quirk that i've decided to find charming )

... I decided to put the theory to the test on the book I had in my hand at the time...


"But I don't wanna give the impression that I know what everything means 'cause I don't...there are times when I'm mystified and I look at some of the stuff that comes out, y'know."

What's the point?

Do we try to guess these?

Should clues be available?

You're taking the concept too literally, one shouldn't need to try and identify the publication, but see where the post leads. This is stennymad, and we don't follow the rules.

You're right of course.

I just love a quiz me

It was from Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs if that's any use.

It's the bathroom book of choice chez Greene at the moment - alongside it's companion - Harry Hill's Great Big Joke Book.

Free form away.

No, no, it's a runner and people should participate, but we should perhaps usurp the norm and not place the emphasis on identification. I myself would post, but "Follow Follow" doesn't number 23 pages.

And anyways... after three months hard slog - you've only reached page 9.

Strictly speaking this is the 6th sentence on page 23 of my current book, but the 5th one was only 4 words and would have made no sense. Onywiz, here it is ......

"Only downside was the engines looked fucked. All of them."

LESTER BANGS.

mita wrote:Strictly speaking this is the 6th sentence on page 23 of my current book, but the 5th one was only 4 words and would have made no sense. Onywiz, here it is ......

"Only downside was the engines looked fucked. All of them."

"Jones The Steam - The Crack-Pipe Years" ?

Immo wrote: "Jones The Steam - The Crack-Pipe Years" ?

Arf!

I never thought of the Tam The Tank Engine possibilities!

Here's a clue .......... one of our non regular posters (mentioned on here the other night) would get this straight away!

Immo wrote:

mita wrote:Strictly speaking this is the 6th sentence on page 23 of my current book, but the 5th one was only 4 words and would have made no sense. Onywiz, here it is ......

"Only downside was the engines looked fucked. All of them."

"Jones The Steam - The Crack-Pipe Years" ?

See, who needs rules.

mita wrote:

Immo wrote: "Jones The Steam - The Crack-Pipe Years" ?

Arf!

I never thought of the Tam The Tank Engine possibilities!

Here's a clue .......... one of our non regular posters (mentioned on here the other night) would get this straight away!

Like GG said, you never did get stennymad did you ya cunt.

crownliquor wrote:Like GG said, you never did get stennymad did you ya cunt.

Who the fuck's GG, you alky, lycra obsessed, Huncyclist?!

Immo wrote:And anyways... after three months hard slog - you've only reached page 9.

Twat.

mita wrote:

crownliquor wrote:Like GG said, you never did get stennymad did you ya cunt.

Who the fuck's GG, you alky, lycra obsessed, Huncyclist?!

It's a Vern job then... hmmmmm

Immo wrote:It's a Vern job then... hmmmmm

Getting warm, Immo. Think of an author who's virtues he has been extolling ever since he's been posting on here.

And ignore the licker. He obviously wants this fred to read like a rejected Monty Python sketch, whereas most of just want something quizlike ............... so we can Google for the answers!

Yes, but look how this thread has taken wings with an irrelevant slant. Spoilt cunts.

It's not from Confederacy of Dunces is it?

(I'll be in that man's debt forever due to that rec )

Immo wrote:It's not from Confederacy of Dunces is it?

(I'll be in that man's debt forever due to that rec )

Nope.

Scottish author. FFS, even licker might get it now!

Is it Alasdair Gray mita?

onomatopoeia wrote:Is it Alasdair Gray mita?

Not quite so cerebral, ono.

That means 'brainy', licker!

don't read much Scottish fiction so really just guessing. Christopher Brookmyre?

onomatopoeia wrote: don't read much Scottish fiction so really just guessing. Christopher Brookmyre?

Nearly there! Now which book?

Clue .... the story wasn't set in Scotland.

The frog one? Or the one about the eye?

onomatopoeia wrote:The frog one? Or the one about the eye?

Neither. An early one.