On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:39:05 -0700, Steve Ackman
wrote:

In , on Thu, 24 Feb 2011
17:05:06 -0800, Larry Jaques, wrote:

I see that you dusted the mothballs off your book.

If I _dusted_ some napthalene off the book, it
probably wouldn't have been in the form of balls,
would it?

OHHH! Moth balls. Got it. ;-)
But... how on earth would moth balls have ever gotten
on the book to begin with?

Yeah, yeah, I know. Damn literalists.

sigh You use paradichlorobenzene mothballs for books.

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