The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 14, April 6, 2003, Article 12

THE NASTY OLD BOOK I THREW AWAY

  Granvyl G. Hulse, Jr. writes: "I saw this joke today and just
  couldn't resist sending it on.

  A collector of rare books ran into an acquaintance who told
  him he had just thrown away an old Bible that he found in a
  dusty, old box.  He happened to mention that
  Guten-somebody-or-other had printed it.

  "Not Gutenberg?" gasped the collector.

  "Yes, that was it!"

  "You idiot! You've thrown away one of the first books ever
  printed. A copy recently sold at auction for half a million dollars!"

  "Oh, I don't think this book would have been worth anything
  close to that much," replied the man. "It was scribbled all over
  in the margins by some guy named Luther."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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