Busy week! :)

[elingregory]

So I made time to do a meme. Not too sure if it was a good idea.

Grab the nearest book.

Find page 45.

The first sentence describes your sex life for the next twelve months

*sigh*

“Behind the balusters of the forecastle a large number of soldiers, who were laying in wait there under a petty officer full of malice, were preparing to send us a murderous discharge from their muskets.”

Says it all really.



That is a bit of “How Half-Arse became Captain” from Memoirs of a Buccaneer by Louis le Golif. On the one hand it means I got a scary result in the meme – I’m wondering if penicillin would cure that ‘murderous discharge’, but on the other how cool is it that even at work, by absolute chance, the nearest book is about a guy called Half-Arse with a matelot called Pulverin?

Comments

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Deary me! I would get the murderous discharge treated right away, otherwise it could get very nasty. Just ask Drummer Dick (http://anteros-lmc.livejournal.com/28243.html?thread=251219#t251219)!

“How Half-Arse became Captain”
You're making this up right? Right??!

[sandra-lindsey.livejournal.com]

I'm amused that they were lying under the petty officer!

I just failed to do this meme - first thing I picked up was a trade magazine (still in its plastic wrapping - I don't even know if it *has* 45 pages, but it's certainly not a book!), 2nd & 3rd were address books...

However, the 4th closest actual book-type item is Standish, so I'll have a peek at that... *looks*

lol, yeah, I'll post it :-) Good for a laugh at any rate!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

What? Me? Make something up? (http://www.amazon.co.uk/buccaneer-unrepentant-prodigious-adventures-Buccaneers/dp/B0000CIU89/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1338417788&sr=8-4) Though, it has to be said, that the jury is still out on whether Borgnefesse (http://www.netplaces.com/pirates/pirate-fact-or-fiction/half-arse.htm) really existed or was the invention of some 18th century wag trying to cash in on the sales generated by Esquemeling and Captain Johnson.

[wulfila.livejournal.com]

At least, your result is amusing (the "murderous discharge" sounds a bit scary indeed, and it appears to be contagious if all the soldiers are affected ;)).

Page 45 of the nearest book I could grab has no sentence. Instead, a wolf is staring at me.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

It's just occurred to me that I have NO idea where my address book is. Still no worries, eh?

I thought the snippet from Standish showed a proper appreciation of the serving classes. Why shouldn't they get a bit too?

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Ooooer! I'm not sure whether that's disturbing or, in the case of hunky wolf shifters, a little less disturbing. Rub his ears and give him a biscuit?

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, I believe ya. ;)

I looked this up on google books and it completely cracks me up that Borgnefesse is catalogued under "Sport and recreation (http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=g29jAAAAMAAJ&q=The+memoirs+of+a+buccaneer%3Bbeing+a+wondrous+and+unrepentant+account+of+the+prodigious+adventures+and+amours+of+King+Louis+XVI%27s+loyal+servant+Louis+...+of+the+Buccaneers&dq=The+memoirs+of+a+buccaneer%3Bbeing+a+wondrous+and+unrepentant+account+of+the+prodigious+adventures+and+amours+of+King+Louis+XVI%27s+loyal+servant+Louis+...+of+the+Buccaneers&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0yLJT5mBJMiq8QPE5PDPDw&redir_esc=y)"!!! WTF?!