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Dear Mister Wonderful,

	Why does "to book" mean to go fast?  I always think of books as things
that sit rather still much of the time.

--Katura
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Dear Homonym Hildie,

	And lord knows it's taking Mister Wonderful a long-ass time to write
one.  You'd think I was getting paid by the hour.  In solid gold blowjobs.

	Still.  Truth is, we often have some swiftly moving books here at
Wonderful Labs.  Miss Yakamoto can hurl a tome by, say, Bill O'Reilly
across the room so fast it'll catch fire.  Of course, they're usually
*already* on fire.  Not that any of us would deliberately burn a book;
sometimes, though, the bile can be awfully corrosive when you spit on 'em.


	The answer must lie in Cockney rhyming slang.  Just as "china" = china
plate = mate, and "butcher's" = butcher's hook = look, so then "book" =
book shop = hop.  You know.  Quick, like a bunny.

	Then again, speaking of those bi nouny-verby type things, you *can*
book a reservation for dinner.  Typically, however, one only has to run
from the check.  Or rather, from the check-waving waiter with a meat
cleaver clenched in his teeth.
	

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http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/politics/article.jsp?content=20040209_74911_74911
http://store.kidsinthehallondvd.com/seasonone.html
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http://www.comedycentral.com/standup/central/detail.jhtml?p=/comedians/c/buddy_cole.xml
http://www.brainwashed.com/godspeed/music.html

-- 
Honey Why

RIMMER:  I've brought about peace.  Peace, freedom and democracy.

LISTER:  Yeah, Rimmer, right, absolutely.  Now all the corpses
	that litter that battlefield can just lie there, safe in
	the knowledge that they snuffed it under a flag of peace,
	and can now happily decompose in a land of freedom...
	you smeghead.

		-Red Dwarf IV, 
		"Waxworld"


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