Well, maybe once more. When I dedicated a post to SJ, he sent all his people here to say hello, so maybe this being nice thing isn't that bad.
Preston from Me and the Blue Skies tagged me with a book meme.
So go visit Preston and say hello from me. He's an honest man who smiles all the time. And if he's not happy all the time, at least he spends the rest of the time being optimistic. So visit him at your own risk--you might end up happy for a moment.
But there's something else I have to warn you about. As of now, there's a lot of Christmas stuff there. Personally, I never got that whole obsession with the birth of Rabbi Yeshua. It's true that he had led an exemplary life (that we know of. We don't really know what crazy stuff he did in his travels in India), and it's true that he's the son of God and all, but--
Well, I guess that's a pretty big thing.
I don't know. Maybe I just have an aversion to the combination of red and green.
Here's the cut-and-pasted book meme thingy:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next two to five sentences.
5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book or the intellectual one. Pick the Closest.
6. Tag five people to do the same.
Now, I understand the point of choosing a random book, but it's just not working for me. The nearest book is Thoreau's Walden, and I feel sleepy just thinking about this book.
Oh, here's a book with some good quotes:
P. 18To me if you are a young girl and you find a boy "groovy" and you go off and move into his "pad" with him, you are definitely making a bad mistake. . . . If I had been living in sin instead of being married I would never have met my next wonderful husband!!!P. 50
The best way to attract a man immediately is to have a magnificent bosom and a half-size brain and let both of them show.P. 78
Recently I was in Denver for the opening of my cosmetic line and they had a big fashion show where Oleg Cassini and Pierre Cardin had their showings. Oleg, whom I adore, brought out a male and a female model identically dressed in green velvet tuxedos. It was darling.P. 102
Never pick up something that is vulgar and buying it will do your husband more harm than good. . . . For example, don't ever buy a conspicuous colored Rolls Royce. A friend of mine bought a pink Rolls Royce and her husband could never use it going to the office. . . . It would have been better if she had bought a black one.
Happy New Year!
14 comments:
Zsa Zsa had some really good advice. No pink Rolls for me.
*Nod*
So you did it! And such a good book to pick too. Who knew Zsa Zsa could provide such practical, every day advice?
So I'm not the only one that thinks red and green is an atrocious color combination? Excellent.
Yellojkt, I'm glad I'm able to share the wisdom. Who knows? Maybe one day they will burn all the books, and it will be up to us to memorize Zsa Zsa's wisdom.
SJ, wait, you nod because you agree with what I said about Jesus, because you agree with me that Christmas is lame, or because you agree with Zsa Zsa that green velvet tuxedos are darling? Or did you nod because you fell asleep?
Preston, I know! The instruction said I shouldn't pick a pretentious book, so at least I followed that rule.
Woozie, I really think that these colors stop me from liking Christmas. I mean, with all due respect, I understand the origin of this 5,000-year-old solstice ceremony color combination comes from covering an altar with hallucinogen leaves, sacrificing a virgin, and then drinking the blood as it mixes with the leaves, but maybe we should try something new?
You picked a great book with some awesome quotes!
The nod was to agree with Zsa Zsa. BTW I am sick as in ill.
Happy New Year !
And I decided to do the tag for no reason other than that I have a book close. The book is Shantaram (google it):
Pg 56 , paragraph 5 (So? It's not sentence 5 deal with it.)
"The first rule of black business everywhere is: never let anyone know what you're thinking. Didier's corollary to the rule was: always know what the other thinks of you. "
The book nearest me is a Gregg Reference Manual (remember those?)
Here's what it says at the 5th sentence on page 56: "In such cases do not use a period at the end of a quoted statement, but retain the question mark or the exclamation point at the end of a quoted question or exclamation (as illustrated in the examples above)."
Wow, fascinating AND informative!
The nearest book to me is "Slide and Find Words". There is no page 56, nor are there any sentences per se.
It's slightly suspicious that you own Zsa Zsa Gabor's book...
B, in a way, that book picked me. Who can refuse the stare of a young Zsa Zsa?
SJ, you mean that novel written by Gregory David Roberts, a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from Pentridge Prison and fled to India where he lived for 10 years?
And look at you, actually finding a cool quote!
Jeff, thank you so much. Like you said, "fascinating AND informative"! (did I do that right?)
Freeman, well, it's a long story. I was a mover in New York. One day a woman whose brother died called and asked for movers to empty his house and throw everything away. So they brought everything the warehouse and after the managers took the expensive stuff to auction off, a few of us were lucky to look through the rest before it was thrown away. From looking at his books and reading some postcards (is it a Federal offense to read a dead man's postcard? Not sure), I thought he was rich, gay, and Republican. Of course, is there anything more rich, gay, and Republican than Zsa Zsa? Anyway, I got some cool stuff that day, including that whole Harvard Classics collection. And a nice ring for Honey. And a music box I thought she'd like but she didn't. And a lot of teddy bears that I thought one day I'll give my kid, but I threw away after he was born because it was creepy. And for some reason I just couldn't leave Zsa Zsa behind, you know?
Actually, I'm not sure you did get it right. How fascinating and informative is that? ;-)
You know I've always wanted to make an art car for the art car parade but I can't imagine driving it on those days when you're just too depressed to make conversation, y'know? Like I could probably drive it MOST days, but then how do you get to work on those days when it's all you can do to put one foot in front of the other, much less talk to total strangers about your car? I imagine it's the same way with that pink car, especially for the husband. :-0
I tried that book thing and I couldn't even READ the sentence because TGWKASAAC had a book in Greek on the coffee table, so that was really no fun. Zsa zsa's are better! :-)
I can't believe I've missed so many posts! Seems like I've checked over here since I got back from vacation but apparently not. Come to think of it I didn't get to go on the internet Friday morning like I usually do but STILL, I've missed a lot!!!
Jeff, you're right. I think I got it now. At first, you wrote, "fascinating AND informative!" And in the next comment, you wrote, "Actually, I'm not sure you did get it right"!
Jill, art cars are a bit weird, I think. I don't know. I never had anything on my car. Not even furry dice hanging off the mirror. Or truck nutz. I think cars just scare me a bit.
This is America. Tell him to read books in American.
And take your time, you know? I'm happy you visit even if it's once a month (when did I start channeling my grandma?)
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