02 September 2006
The salesman's cross reference
My wife and I burst out laughing.
We have a short book called Baby Animals. (Apparently there are a lot of books called Baby Animals.) It's filled with page-sized photographs of very cute creatures, like these pictures of chicks or bunnies or whales. In fact, there's a cute baby lion on the cover of our book. I'm telling you, these baby animals are CUTE!
After reading cool facts about these babies -- dogs and cats are born blind, chicks eat small stones because they have no teeth, whales drink 100 gallons of milk daily -- we get the inside back cover, where the publisher writes the following:
What am I missing?
We have a short book called Baby Animals. (Apparently there are a lot of books called Baby Animals.) It's filled with page-sized photographs of very cute creatures, like these pictures of chicks or bunnies or whales. In fact, there's a cute baby lion on the cover of our book. I'm telling you, these baby animals are CUTE!
After reading cool facts about these babies -- dogs and cats are born blind, chicks eat small stones because they have no teeth, whales drink 100 gallons of milk daily -- we get the inside back cover, where the publisher writes the following:
If you liked learning about Baby Animals, you will also enjoy
Fighting Fires
Giant Machines
Killer Whales
Planets Around the Sun
Wild Bears
What am I missing?
Labels: cross references, indexing humor
