I got tagged ages ago (February 22) for this meme, and either forgot (likely) or just was stupid (highly likely.) I’m sorry Kathy.

It’s the “what are you reading meme,” from Pondering the World.

I am not a book reader. I can’t remember the last book I read. The books I have around are the dictionary, 20,000 Words, road atlas, and a manual for a router (it doesn’t have 123 pages, even though it’s written in four languages.)

But I like memes, so I’m going to go with the dictionary. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition.

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

This ought to be good…

1 to fasten with battens 2 to supply or strengthen with battens — batten down the hatches to fasten canvas over the hatches, esp. in preparing for a storm.

batten(2) (bat’n) vi, [[ON batna, improve <IE base *bhad-, bood> BETTER]] 1 to grow fat; thrive 2 to be well fed or wealthy at another’s expense — vt. to fatten up; overfeed.

Hey, I don’t know but you, but that was really fascinating, just fascinating (not.)

But here are some tidbits that went through my mind

1. The word rhymes with part of my real name.
2. I really read the dictionary for once and learned that batten has two very useful meanings: “we don’t need to batten you down because you are batten.”
3. I’m guessing vi means verb intransitive, and vt means verb transitive. gadamn, I impressed myself remembering those parts of speech - even though I don’t have a clue what they mean.

I wonder if these people will repond. (If you have already done this meme, I apologize but I am too lazy to do a search through your blog.)

• Shotgun Concepts
• Trailer Park Barbie
• Newscoma
• Just Call Me Dick
• Guitar Boomer
  

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