The Twitter hashtag #Bookswithalettermissing has proved to be a popular one. We discussed some great examples in an earlier episode. But why not take a letter off the author as well? As in, Animal Far by George Owell, the story about an animal that ran away, prompting a nonchalant farmer to say, “Oh, well.” (The joke’s doubly funny if you know that the name “George” comes from the Greek for “farmer.”) This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Books with a Letter Missing”
Grant, you remember the game we’ve been playing,
Books with a letter missing,
Where you remove a letter from the title
And then it creates a whole new book?
Yes, yes.
Well, Claude Van Der Veen from Milwaukee
Wanted to know if we had a category
For a missing letter from the title and from the author.
Oh.
Claude suggests the book Animal Fire by George O. Well.
I mean, what would the plot for that be?
Your pet pig named George ran off far, far away, and oh well.
I don’t know why that’s funny, but it is.
Exactly.
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