# Help me with a rhyme for my custom book plate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062 "2013-04-30T01:51:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Detroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Detroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Detroit)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/41 "2013-05-02T13:05:15Z")
Who borrows this book From Mistress Kate Had better return it Or meet thy Fate! A pox on thee Who steals this prose May bears eat thee From Head to Toes! ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/42 "2013-05-02T16:52:49Z")
I doubt this book will be stolen, After all, it’s 2013, But if it should happen to be taken, …Well, go ahead and keep it, I can just get another copy. ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/43 "2013-05-02T23:20:53Z")
We had to push our meeting out to Monday. I am really looking forward to incorporating these into the book plates. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/44 "2013-05-03T09:04:53Z")
…as **minionkat** starts a booming bookplate-selling business… ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/45 "2013-05-03T14:12:07Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > This ain’t your book, you did not earn it > Nor those others on yonder walls > ‘tis Kate’s, and if you don’t return it > She’ll bruise your ovaries or balls > mmm OK, someone needs to work ‘cunt punt’ in to one of these. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/46 "2013-05-03T14:43:25Z")
Is there a need to complete this dire task Dear reader, Minion Kate? And here is the reason for which I ask: What the fuck is a book plate? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/47 "2013-05-03T15:21:04Z")
_This is my book And this is its plate. If you should find them Return them to Kate._ ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/48 "2013-05-03T15:33:45Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > What the fuck is a book plate? [Bookplate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookplate) ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/49 "2013-05-03T15:35:09Z")
_One of these pages contains ricin Your guess as to which one it’s in_ ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/50 "2013-05-03T18:32:30Z")
Tiny droplets of Blood from the severed hand of He who steals my book #haiku ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/51 "2013-05-03T22:40:10Z")
This book belongs to Mistress Kate A woman stern and deadly. If this book comes back too late Then that is what _you’ll_ be. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/52 "2013-05-04T02:38:40Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > OK, someone needs to work ‘cunt punt’ in to one of these. Wow, that’s pretty rude. Better use a Limerick, then… A theft of this book is an affront, runt. 'Twill lead to a rough and a grunt hunt but when it is found I’ll shout “a touchdown!” For you’ll be the goal of cunt punt. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/53 "2013-05-04T22:34:28Z")
_The pen is mightier than the sword_. Unless you consider your possession of this book as anything more than a temporary loan from a dedicated bibliophile. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/54 "2013-05-05T03:07:52Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > What the fuck is a book plate? Something like [this](http://www.lookoutmountainbookstore.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=4071) (Terry Pratchett signed bookplate). ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/55 "2013-05-05T15:36:40Z")
I told my designer friend about the great response rate this thread was getting and she asked me “do you have enough books for all these bookplates?” I just looked at her. She started to laugh as she realized what a silly question that was. ---
**Author:** ![Detroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Detroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Detroit)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/56 "2013-05-09T18:21:23Z")
Keep a book of Mistress Kate’s? Others have, and met their fates! ---
**Author:** ![Didact\_Lectorem777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@Didact\_Lectorem777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didact_Lectorem777)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/57 "2013-05-10T23:52:05Z")
Took a book off Miss Kate’s Shelf? What great taste! Now if one care’s much for your health One would return it with great haste. Yay! I made one, awful though it may be. Unless solace can be found in hate I’d return this book to Kate Nice lil kitty and giraffe-cum-hat One should nicely bring them back. Grr. Why is this so difficult? ---
**Author:** ![Didact\_Lectorem777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@Didact\_Lectorem777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didact_Lectorem777)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/58 "2013-05-11T00:00:12Z")
> [@Didact\_Lectorem777](#): > > Now if one care’s much for your health I can’t edit post-submission? This is news. Substitute: Now if one care’s much for one’s health Not exactly verse-shattering, especially for so awful a writing, but at least the POV is consistent now. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/59 "2013-05-11T01:30:43Z")
“I bless the man who borrows this, and lovingly returns it, the right to come again is his, for by this act he earns it. But CURSE the soul who keeps this book, for him too good is eyestrain, and deep remorse, and vertigo, and nausea and migraine.” Haven’t lost a book since I started using this bit of doggerel on my bookplates, over 30yrs ago. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062/60 "2013-05-11T09:58:52Z")
In the Father Brown story “The Blast of the Book” by G.K. Chesterton, the story revolves around a book with the inscription > [@](#): > > Them that looked into this book > Them the Flying Terror took And of course everyone who does look disappears mysteriously and horrifically… …or do they? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-rhyme-for-my-custom-book-plate/657062.md?page=2)