"What!!!? That's it?? Oh, come on." (I now feel a sense of anti-climax.) "That's not fair. Fine, then. I'll go and find something else! I wasn't even reading the smelly old Reader's Digest anyway." I get up to go looking for some of the literature that I HAVE actually read lately... and I resolve to make another cup of coffee while I'm there.

So, upon returning to the computer room armed with coffee and with several of my recent (albeit short) literary journeys under my arm, I sit down to see what I've got to deal with. We don't have a lot of stuff here, and the only things I've read lately have been the odd book that I've plucked off the bookshelf when I was bored. I discarded the idea of using the mags and newspaper that I was browsing this morning. They don't count anyway... they don't even have 123 pages... and at least one mag would've had a hard time squeezing 8 sentences on one page... in between all of the pretty pictures. So I've settled on a few that I think are pretty cool. On top of the pile is the novel that we gave Miss 18 for christmas. I was going to wait until she's finished, but I have been sneaking the odd quick peek... shhh, don't tell her...


Lisey's Story by Stephen King.
"Page 123... let's see... fifth sentence, wasn't it? Yep, there it is... now the next three..."
"...Some sort of smile, anyway.
     'Wait,' he said.
     'Wait?'


Hmm... doesn't that make you wonder what's going on? I've only just started this book and I haven't read that far yet... I might focus on this one a bit more, I think. I need to know what's going on now. But, that still didn't satisfy my need to type some random crap. There's no use doing things by halves, is there? "Ok then, let's have a look what else we've got...


Guide to places of the World, eh? Another Reader's Digest publication... oh shit..." *grunts*... "this thing weighs a ton." Oh well, shouldn't have too many problems finding what I'm looking for here... there's heaps of pages... and sentences. "Page 123?... Hmmm, Cameroon (in Africa)" Sentences 6, 7 and 8 say...
      Starting in the north, it ranges from low-lying lands on the southern shores of Lake CHAD, through the semidesert SAHEL to dramatic mountain peaks (the Kapsiki mountains north of Garoua). Then come grassy savannahs, rolling uplands (the ADOUMAOUA MASSIF), steaming tropical forests, and neat coffee, cocoa, rubber, banana and hardwood plantations. Finally, there are rain-drenched volcanoes - the highest active cone is Mount CAMEROON (4095 m, 13 435 ft) - and palm-fringed beaches at Kribi and LIMBE.


*phew*
Now that was more like it... worth the effort, at least. There's lots of impressive words to type there... and it sounds nice too, doesn't it? Apart from the heat... and the lions... and rampaging elephants... and the possibility of being buried alive by molten lava... and the tsetze flies...
"Ok, let's try something fun... Heh heh heh, this should be good..."


The Dinkum Dictionary
A ripper guide to Aussie English by Lenie (Midge) Johansen.
"Heh heh, sounds like something I could send my new friend Paul. He might actually be able to make real sense of Kitty if he had one of these." I opened up to page 123 (after losing track of what I was doing a couple of times... *giggle* *chortle* ... we ARE incredibly funny, we aussies, aren't we?)... Now, being that this is a dictionary and doesn't have sentences, as such, I've decided that each word entry should be about the equivalent of one sentence, there's not much for each one... alright then, that's settled. Down we go... past fancypants, fandangle, fandangled thing, fandangs and fanging for a feed... there...

fangs
teeth.
see also:
put the fangs in.

fanny
woman's vagina; female genitals, pudendum.
see also:
sweet Fanny Adams
flash fanny at the Fowlers

fantabulous/fantasmogorical/fantastic
wonderful; excellent; marvellous.


Well, I never... there's not much more to say, is there? Except...

TAG!!! YOU'RE IT!!!!!!

*runs away laughing like a loon*