Random Meme

[highlyeccentric]

via various places

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Ic wylle mine æÞelo eallum gecyÞan, Þæt ic wæs on Mrycon miccles cynnes.
Which is from Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader. Specifically from The Battle of Maldon. no, i don't know what it means and i can't be bothered translating.

Comments

[flamearrows.livejournal.com]

Teehee

"The effect of discounting for Financial Year 2007 is considered to be immaterial"

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

my gosh, that's exciting!

[flamearrows.livejournal.com]

Well, any book that's titled "Australian Accounting Standards" isn't exactly promising a fun-filled afternoon.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

conceded.

could be worse. i've been known to spend evenings with the "concordance to the anglo-saxon poetic records"... which is basically just lists.

[pathawi.livejournal.com]

'I'm a tell y'all 'bout my pedigree, that I was from a great clan of Mercia.'

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

*bows*

you win.

[pathawi.livejournal.com]

Nah, dude. Your kung fu is way better 'n mine. Translating a single verse of Old English is a mere bagatelle. Maintaining a blog about medievalism, life, &c. what people read is real magicks.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

i'm continually surprised to find people do read it... i keep slipping back into the habit of thinking this is just my excuse for procrastination, and then the likes of you turn up out of the blue.

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

Off topic, but have you seen this?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/jk-rowling-reveals-that-one-of-her-characters-is-gay/2007/10/20/1192301087070.html

Dumbledore's gay, according to JK in an interview in NYC!

I will meme in a bit...

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

yeah, i sawed :)

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

Bree rang me "guess what - go to SMH!"

I shrieked.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

NERD

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

WELL YEAH

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

In the case of Siam, Chulalongkorn's twenty-seven brothers in fact have been seen as the only reliable group of 'modernizers' in the kingdom, because most of the aristocracy did not attempt to obtain a Western education.

From Frank Tipton's The Rise of Asia, which I have to read for Asian History.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

i still think i win the obsurity competition, and flamearrows wins the boring competition.

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

I think so too. Fortunately, that section of the book I quoted is not one of the bits I need to read. Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian politicking is enough for me!

[daiskmeliadorn.livejournal.com]

"In a world of victims, he wrote, there are no innocents." (possibly the least interesting sentence on the page, sadly)