Wednesday, April 19, 2006

One of my colleagues is in the process of writing a textbook. They sent him a couple examples of the cover art. The final choice was a cover with a pair of blue-footed boobies on it.

I guess he was still unsure about the cover choice; he was taking it (and the alternate cover) around in the department and showing it to all of us and asking our opinions. (I liked the chosen cover a lot better than the reject; the rejected cover was dark and murky and had sort of unnatural colors on it).

I told him I liked the chosen cover. And I added, "And now, you can tell everyone you wrote a book that has *boobies* on the cover!"

He didn't think that was nearly as funny as I did.

2 comments:

aufderheide said...

Sounds like the kind of text book that Beavis and Butthead would want to look at. Of course, they would be dissapointed when Mr. Van Driesen explained to them what a blue footed boobie actually is.

dragon knitter said...

only a woman can crack jokes about boobies, lol.