# I hate this one damn book. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 14, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799 "2015-08-14T00:40:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/21 "2015-08-14T21:40:50Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Uh, **Bosda**? Why not just remove the title from your listings until you find it? > > (Is this the same Delany who wrote “Hoag”?) > [@splatterpunk](#): > > He’s done this, multiple times. He finds it, lists it, and when he gets a buyer he can’t find it again. Lather, rinse, repeat. Bingo.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/22 "2015-08-14T21:43:37Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > Your thinking is off. Instead of thinking where it is, think about where you would put it. These are apparently two different places. I would put in in the Fiction boxes. And I went through them. All of them. Plus Non-Fiction. **And** Graphic Novels. All I found was a sleepless night.:mad::smack:😕 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/23 "2015-08-14T21:48:33Z")
Next time you find it, lock it in a safe. 'Course, then you’re liable to lose the safe with the book inside. So make the safe something that can’t be lost, like in a bank. Then, when you get an order for the book, go to the safe with a book box and money for postage, put the book in the box, and take the book in the box to a shipping center such as the UPS store. Just hope that the book doesn’t go missing during transit. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/24 "2015-08-14T21:49:55Z")
When you find it this time, put it in a safe deposit box or wall safe or something. Then post to this thread saying where you put it. Just say enough so that you’ll find it when you need it. “In my safe deposit box at XYZ Bank”. “On top of the refrigerator”. “In my underwear drawer”. “In my lawyer’s safe”. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/25 "2015-08-14T21:57:01Z")
Put it somewhere separate, like, where you always check. (A drawer in your dresser, or something like that.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/26 "2015-08-14T22:09:21Z")
Decide on an exact location, get a tattoo. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/27 "2015-08-15T01:07:14Z")
Good idea - tattoos! Start with one on your left hand that says, “Remember Sammy Jankis” ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/28 "2015-08-15T01:10:58Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Decide on an exact location, get a tattoo. …of the entire contents of the book. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/29 "2015-08-15T02:12:44Z")
I hate this one damned trick! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/30 "2015-08-15T02:47:10Z")
Hey, you want believable - that’s believable. Bradbury’s bullshit about some guy sitting down and memorizing _The Brothers Karamazov_, that’s wizards and unicorns. And Heinlein? Don’t get him started. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/31 "2015-08-15T03:53:19Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Dryer: Two socks enter, one sock leaves. I always wanted to start a social group called **Socks Without Partners.** ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/32 "2015-08-15T05:12:53Z")
You would just be hosed. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/33 "2015-08-15T05:50:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You would just be hosed. Argh! I’ll bet we get a string of sock jokes now. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/34 "2015-08-15T06:36:15Z")
I feel positively nauseous! You win! I hope. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/35 "2015-08-15T14:38:56Z")
A pair of pants in the dryer … one pant out … the rest of the day fared no better. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/36 "2015-08-15T14:44:44Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Argh! I’ll bet we get a string of sock jokes now. Darn it! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/37 "2015-08-15T16:18:40Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Wait, Chip Delany? > > For some reason, I got the idea that he was dead, and then recently I was reading a conversation between him and another writer, and was surprised he was alive. Dead? Good Lord, no. I see him at Readercon every year. In fact, he has a booth in the huckster’s room, and is always at the Kaffeeklatcshes. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/38 "2015-08-15T19:14:21Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > There’s a Schroedinger’s Cat joke in here somewhere, but I can’t think of what it is. Or maybe there isn’t one in there. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799/39 "2015-08-15T19:23:16Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Or maybe there isn’t one in there. That’s why I posted the Dead Or Alive song in post 11 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-this-one-damn-book/727799.md?page=1)