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Thread #70134   Message #1195412
Posted By: Blackcatter
27-May-04 - 06:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: I dare you not to laugh at these!
Subject: RE: BS: I dare you not to laugh at these!
Ha!

Ever tell anyone they have a red dot on their forehead?


Here's a story from when I was working in the Orlando Public Library. I was working the front desk one day, and a man and a woman walked in. The lady started toward the fiction section and the man the opposite way. While passing by me (and still walking) he looked over at me (I was 20 ft away) and called out "Catcher in the Rye."

Not knowing what else to do I called back "J. D. Salinger."   

Upon that, the man turned 180 deg., and yelled to his wife: J. D. Salinger, not Tennyson!"

I've always wondered what Catcher would have been like if Alfred Lord Tennyson had written it.