Wherefore art thou Bookmark book?

yoyobon_gw

14 years ago

Wherefore art thou little Bookmark Book!?

It's sort of like " Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego!"

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veer
14 years ago
yoyo. good to see you back. You will have to explain your thread 'cos it doesn't mean anything to me. Sorry if I'm missing something obvious. :-(
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
14 years ago
It's a puzzler.......

I believe someone out there knows the whereabouts !! :0)
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carolyn_ky
14 years ago
Is this the book sent as a round robin mailer? I had it several weeks ago and forwarded it to the next person on the list, but I can't remember who that was. I do remember drawing the mailing arrow from my location to hers, but I can't even remember where that went. Alas, senioritis has taken root.
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks Carolyn !
It's heading east ...........:0)
lemonhead101
14 years ago
I have it... Sorry! Will get a move on... :-)
lemonhead101
14 years ago
It's in the mail to the next lucky recipient. :-)
dido1
14 years ago
What's this about? Have I missed something on RP? Please filll me in?

Sorry - don't mean to be pedantic - but, point of information, 'wherefore' actually means 'why', though it looks as if it ought to mean 'where'. When Juliet says 'wherefore art thou Romeo?' she is saying WHY are you a Montague and I a Capulet because, of course, the two families are sworn enemies.
carolyn_ky
14 years ago
I didn't know that!
annpan
14 years ago
This is a very common misunderstanding. Like the saying "The proof is in the pudding" which I have given up trying to correct when I hear it!
J C
14 years ago
I laughed when I saw this as I recently corrected someone. She said, "Siobhan, Siobhan, wherefore art thou, Siobhan?" She had obviously been looking for me. I told her that she had just commented on my being named Siobhan, NOT asking where I have been. She looked at me like I had two heads!
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
14 years ago
I am going to claim that I created a wonderful new word blending WHERE + THEREFORE = Wherefore

Because.....I suspect that is exactly what I was saying! ;0)

Rules, schmules...break them with great enthusiasm !
donnamira
14 years ago
Post from the bookmark book:

I am now in Northern Virginia, being carried back & forth on the commuter train. I'll let you know when I leave for Maryland....
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
14 years ago
Buon viaggio !

Bravo !!
donnamira
14 years ago
The Bookmark Book:
Leaving Virginia today!!!
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
14 years ago
Don't you love a mystery !?

And where it goes...nobody knows :0)
martin_z
14 years ago
OK - I DID know that "wherefore" means "why". (Hence the phrase "whys and wherefores"...)

But I also have no idea what the bookmark book is, or what this thread is all about....
frances_md
14 years ago
It crossed the Potomac in only three days!
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
14 years ago
Tally Ho.... Off we go!

enjoy......:0)
frances_md
14 years ago
Left Maryland yesterday ..... heading north.

Wonderful!
twobigdogs
14 years ago
I admit that I hadn't read this thread all the way through because I had no idea what was going on.

Now it is obvious and I am thrilled to be "in the know".

Bookmark Book is currently filling up with chocolate, soon to be headed Northeast.

What a treat! Thank you!!
PAM
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
14 years ago
Yoohoo !?
twobigdogs
14 years ago
Bookmark book filled up on chocolate and left for locales to the north last Saturday.

Sorry... started a new job. My life is crazy right now.

PAM
twobigdogs
14 years ago
I am starting to worry ... I mailed this book out nine days ago. ANyone know where it is?

PAM
veronicae
14 years ago
I have it!

And after months, probably close to a year, of not being able to sign on via my computer, and 3 months of having this iPad, I realized today that perhaps this would work, and it does.

I have so much catching up to do. I didn't have any idea what the bookmark book was all about when it arrived on my door step. Such was my frustration at not being able to speak with you all, that I had even stopped dropping by.

Hello, dear friends!
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
14 years ago
HURRAY !!!
It arrived..........enjoy yourself little book !

oh, and you too veronica !
donnamira
14 years ago
The Washington Post's Arts section had an article where the author tracked down a postcard that fell out of a used book he had purchased. Anyone who enjoyed the Bookmark Book should enjoy this too!

Here is a link that might be useful: Washington Post 8/12: postcard in a book leads to surprise
frances_md
14 years ago
What a wonderful story -- and what a small world we live in!

Siobhan should be very interested in this.
J C
14 years ago
Wow!

The West Boothbay Harbor Post Office is exactly the same as it was in 1945.
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
14 years ago
How is out little book traveler doing?
veronicae
14 years ago
I sent it off to upper NY at the beginning of August.
veronicae
13 years ago
Any news of its current location?
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
13 years ago
Talk to us, little book !!

YOOOO HOOOO !
sheriz6
13 years ago
The bookmark book is safe and sound in Connecticut. What a neat idea and what a nice surprise. It will soon be heading just a smidge further south ....
veronicae
13 years ago
Hurray! That which iwas lost was found.

Yesterday my son and I were going through a box of very old books (one was a100+ year old complete Robert Browning). We found a dried four leaf clover in one book that was 94 years old! Nothing so exciting when I was looking for a neat thing to pass on, at least in anecdote, when I had the book.
pam53
13 years ago
I must apologize yoyobon as it took me a while to send the book on. I see it arrived, whew. I know I was remiss due to extenuating circumstances. I enjoyed it very much-thanks for including me!
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
13 years ago
It can spend as much time as it wants !

That's the beauty of surprises.....they come unexpectedly and leave when they've had enough of us ( sort of like in-laws !)
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
13 years ago
How is the adventure going ?
sheriz6
13 years ago
I've sent it on its way ....
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
13 years ago
October 1......any news of it's travels?
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
13 years ago
Oh where , Oh where did the bookmark book go???
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
13 years ago
Have we lost the book along the way?????
sheriz6
13 years ago
I hope it's not lost! I did send it Media Mail though ... the US postal service equivalent of Slow Boat to China. However, it was only going about 30 miles and within the same state!

Perhaps it will surface soon.
yoyobon_gw
Original Author
13 years ago
Do you recall about when you sent it out?

After all this traveling , I hope it didn't go astray !!
sheriz6
13 years ago
September 19 ...

Wherefore art thou Bookmark book?

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