I was tagged by mcsassypants!

123 Meme Rules: (1) Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating! (2) Turn to page 123. (3) Find the first 5 sentences. (4) Post the next 3 sentences. (5) Tag 5 people.

I'm at work, which means the closest book is The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit. So it's a little weird, but here's as close as I could get, counting sentence fragments as sentences and so forth:

panic button 1. a location on a Web site that contains a link to another, usually less controversial site 2. escape hatch that those who surf NSFW Web sites [read: ones that contain nudity] on the job use to avoid being busted

paradigm 1. a universally accepted way of thinking*

Play along if you like, lonely_doll, lupinlover, talekyn, rockfestfreak, and annablume.

*I can't really post ONLY the first definition. The second is "what everybody believes, the way things are done because they've been done like this forever." And the third is "used to mystify and intimidate colleagues/customers/clients who are usually short-circuited by the use of such a fancy word, especially one that contains a silent "g"; far too sophisticated and intellectual a word to be bandied about in the workplace, especially because the majority of people who use it have no idea what it means. Those who have drunk the Kool-Aid will speak of a "dominant paradigm" (which is kind of redundant, no?) and paradigm shifts.

Although, other than the fact that being AWAKE that early might kind of suck, I DO kind of like everything else about that time of day. Stuff is all quiet, it's still a little dark, traffic's not TOO bad yet, etc...

Yoinked from gramina. Play along if you like. Copy the questions to a comment here and answer them (or answer whichever ones you're willing to answer.) And feel free to copy the empty questions to a post of your own:

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