Featured Don't Lick Your Old Green Books

https://www.rarebookhub.com/articles/3286

 

"We don't mean to alarm you and as long as you don't lick or eat your book covers you won't die. But be forewarned, if you aren't careful, don't wash your hands or protect cuts and open sores, or you breathe in too much of the dust, you could get fairly sick."

Uh-oh...

 

"the Poison Book Project"...!

 

Yikes! Some of mine do have green covers, but not bright green. I won't lick them from now on.

 

Lick books??

 

Have you never heard of "eat your greens"?

Someone better let @kyratango know.

 

People lick books???

 

Just to try before they eat them.

 

Someone needs to do a 'Knives Out' movie incorporating this factoid (prob already have).

 

About 30 odd years ago we had some Victorian taxidermy birds delivered to the Graphic Design where I was working from the local museum for a photo session for a calendar. We were all admiring them for a few hours in the studio and then we got an urgent phone call from the museum to not touch them as they were covered with arsenic dust for pest control.

 

Did the person who sent them over not know that?

 

I just remember them turning up for the photography session sitting on a desk. I was working in the adjoining Design studio. We were told not to touch them, but I don’t even remember if I did or not.

 

Fascinating! I also found it odd that one of the books from the Philly library with this wast still "in circulation"! The checkout card for that book must be full by now!

 

unless I decide to taste-test something sprayed with the infamous Novichok used by KGB
I feel safe
AJ for thinking of me!

 

No, kyra, please don't do it, we need you!

Anytime kyra, of course I thought of you.