I once began to study to become a librarian (Funny, that word, I'm a Scorpio and have dread dreams of being re-assigned a birth date earlier in October so that I become a Librian) but I had to go and have some cancers removed.

Is this a coincidence?

Is too much contact with the written woprd hazardous to your health?

Is book glue toxic?

How else could I get my wife to buy me Terrt Pratchet books other than be consigned to the cancer ward?

Book glue's definitely toxic, as evidenced by slightly dazed looks of people who stay in the library for too long a time, and of course sudden outbreaks of book fever.



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From my own experience with making books, there are some glues more toxic than others. There are archival glues that are relatively harmless. I'd say there are worse things to be poisoned by!

Spray mount and cow gum, why did we ever invent desk top publishing?

What a wonderful life story: start at 'alive' work your way through the books and when finally people find you they dig you up at 'exhumed'#


#as a former philosophy student I often have musings on what 'exhumed' means, and, for such as me, does it mean forgetting all that Hume wrote and his comments on the universe?

Think you'll find that in most editions the word Exhume has been replaced by Wittgenstein. Does that help?

NO!!!! Nothing but death helps Wittgenstein.

Wittgenstein: A helpful word derived to describe wittily shaped spikey bits on genetically engineered forks.

How much more dead do you want him to be?

They're cake forks and the prongy bits are for getting the Tims out of Battenbergs (since we're cross threading)

Why are there "Tims" stuck in Battenburg. Battenburg the cake for non-vegetarians!

Or maybe that is Battenburg made out of Tim Tams?

<Heads off to Culinary Laboratory, with thinking cap on .....>

{Edited to increase clarity , and remove excess stupidity}



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Jazz_Sue responsible for all Tim's in Battenburgs and for international co stick shortage. Also possibly responsible for wasabi contamination but conclusive evidence still to be found and recent discovery of CannibalRabbit in Culinary Laboratory suggests he may be to blame.

bunyip responsible for death of Wittgenstein,

EgonSpengler responsible for confusion between the two.

I am very old friend of Miss Marple so therefore must be innocent.

Watch out!!! Jessica Fletcher is in town.

THe Butler did it this time, he's got to do it sometime. Either that or he's good at settign other people up.

I do seem to have a vague recollection of the wasabi infused battenburg escaping form the lab. Strange things happen when you combine such obviously unrelated foodstuff.

Is it worth singling out EgonSpengler for causing confusion - I thought that we all did / do that.

T.H. Butler? The award winning prune breeder? Shame on you for your vendetta.

Well that puts CannibalRabbit in the clear - we all know it is never the person who confesses.

Wonder if the prune thing is worth pursuing? Tinker, Tailor Soilder Spy.....

I always thought it was a sailor...

You're right. Sorry - comes from living too close to Sarratt.

Well it can't be the spy - they just leave secrets on discs / usb keys on public transport.

Or sometimes entire forgotten laptops!