How many angels can dance on a pinhead?

"I'm very surprised you don't have any books by Doreen Virtue... she has a PhD you know."

Well, He is Hilarious...

"Hello, do you have awakenings?"

"The book or the film?"

"The film."

"Let me just see... No, I'm afraid we don't. We do have the book, if that's any use to you?"

"Oh no, I really needed the film. It's a classic for psychology students."

I apparently live in a world where a fucking Robin Williams movie is given more credit that the text on which it's based. This is like saying: "Don't worry about reading Molecular Biology of the Cell, we'll just rent Patch Adams instead."

Ramadan repeat season

Hello Children. I'm Mr Aedan. I sell books in Dubai. It's the same nonsense as anywhere else in the world, except it's actually against the law for me to tell people they're wrong.

As most of my customers are currently hiding in bed during the daytime, pretending that it counts as fasting if you just sleep all day, I don't have much to offer today apart from a variant on a classic theme:

"Hello, I'm looking for Middlemarch by Silas Marner."

I'd also like to point out that our best selling non-fiction book was Mein Kampf, until The Secret displaced it.

An Old Favourite.

Girl: "Do you sell textbooks?"

Me: "Er, yes."

Girl: "Where are they?"

Me: "Well, that would depend on the topic. What do you need textbooks for?"

Girl: "University."