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Strange bookmark found in a book.

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draughtycatflap · 12/01/2021 13:17

Sitting here waiting for the man to repair my heating and I thought I’d start a new book. It’s an out of print one from the 1970s that I’d been searching for ages. I picked it up and flipped through to find a rather surprising bookmark. I’ll post it a bit later just to keep you all guessing. 😀

I wonder though, have you ever flipped through a book and found something odd, surprising, intriguing or unexpected? I would love to hear about it. 🙂

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draughtycatflap · 12/01/2021 17:10

I can’t believe he is smoking.

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ArabellaScott · 12/01/2021 17:11

Is that a trombone?

LaMarschallin · 12/01/2021 17:11

Oh bugger!

Pointless is starting soon!*

Do I concentrate on Richard Osman or the denouement?

*Please try not to be jealous of my full and interesting life; I have my troubles too...

ArabellaScott · 12/01/2021 17:11

Ah. No, I see that it's not.

iklboo · 12/01/2021 17:11

One of those pens with a pic of a lady in a swimsuit on. When you turn it upside down the coloured ink flows away as she's in the nud.

WinterIsGone · 12/01/2021 17:12

I can’t believe he is smoking.
Yes, how times change Grin

LaMarschallin · 12/01/2021 17:12

Ooh!

That was worth waiting for, OP!

This has been an excellent thread Smile

TinkersRucksack · 12/01/2021 17:13

Well now....that's not a rasher of bacon.

LaMarschallin · 12/01/2021 17:16

Just showed it to DH who committed that it looked like he's burning the candle at both ends...

See why I'm fixated on Richard O?

chipperfish · 12/01/2021 17:17

I say I was nearly there with Tom of Finland

Defaultname · 12/01/2021 17:19

@draughtycatflap

Brace yourselves...

‘OLIVER + ANT CHAIR’ by Stefan Thiel.

Semjon contemporary, Berlin.

Wondered why I'm not the guy whose silhouette's on the shade I couldn't hide the tears in my eyes.
halfeatenhamper · 12/01/2021 17:20

@draughtycatflap - never mind the picture of a man doing a poo on a chair.

That strange grub-like creature you once found in a second-hand book... it may have been a bookworm larva and its descendants could be eating their way through your books.

oakleaffy · 12/01/2021 17:20

That is superb!! Haha! I have a couple of friends who would love that to put on their freezer 😂

Strawberrycreamsundae · 12/01/2021 17:21

@draughtycatflap

I can’t believe he is smoking.
😂😂
oakleaffy · 12/01/2021 17:22

I googled ''Ant Chair''

Strange bookmark found in a book.
oakleaffy · 12/01/2021 17:23

For some reason image didn't show? Second time lucky...?

Strange bookmark found in a book.
vampirethriller · 12/01/2021 17:23

Mine's a bit tame after that Grin
Found it in a Jackie Collins from cancer research.

Strange bookmark found in a book.
Strange bookmark found in a book.
CommunistLegoBloc · 12/01/2021 17:25

Is it bad I looked at that and went 'oh Arne Jacobsen chair' before I noticed anything else 😂

draughtycatflap · 12/01/2021 17:25

@chipperfish

I say I was nearly there with Tom of Finland
I was thinking that. But you were too specific! 😀
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VinylDetective · 12/01/2021 17:26

@draughtycatflap

I can’t believe he is smoking.
Why?
oakleaffy · 12/01/2021 17:26

Dick Cheney??

Strange bookmark found in a book.
iklboo · 12/01/2021 17:26

never mind the picture of a man doing a poo on a chair.

Erm..... he's not doing a poo.

iklboo · 12/01/2021 17:27

@VinylDetective - @draughtycatflap was being silly saying that THAT was what was naughty about the picture. Grin

draughtycatflap · 12/01/2021 17:28

[quote halfeatenhamper]@draughtycatflap - never mind the picture of a man doing a poo on a chair.

That strange grub-like creature you once found in a second-hand book... it may have been a bookworm larva and its descendants could be eating their way through your books.[/quote]
That’s what I assumed about the grub I screamed and Googled and put it in a bag in the freezer as advised. Then when it was well frozen I threw it out! 😀

And umm... I think you might need to visit Specsavers... 😂

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SixesAndEights · 12/01/2021 17:28

A photograph of a woman lying naked on a double bed. Not sexually posed, just lying there quite naturally.

This was in a second hand bookshop in Buxton.

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