miss kitty ([info]kittenaskat) wrote in [info]seattle,
2004-10-09 16:11:00
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looking for Y. Trabet

Bizarre series of incident... the bookstore where I work, Queen Anne Books (1811 Queen Anne Ave N), is being pranked by a rabbit. Not a real rabbit, of course, but someone who clearly has a rabbit fixation. Started about a week ago with the discovery of The Joy of Cooking Rabbits sitting on one of our tables. Since then, we have discovered on the shelves of our store books such as Da Bunny Code, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Rabbits, When Bad Things Happen To Good Bunnies and many other lovely books. They're all old Reader's Digest books with squares cut out of the inside pages and treasures tucked inside, but the flycovers are really amazing. Very well done. In addition, we've gotten 2 letters from Y. Trabet with nothing but pictures of people in bunny suits inside of the envelopes. Oh, and of course each book is "ex libris Y. Trabet" and some of them are "written" by Y. Trabet (except those written by "authors" such as John Steinbunny, who brings you The Rabbits of Wrath.

We have yet to catch the bunny prankster, but we are keeping all the books behind the shelf. Anyone heard of anything similar going on around town?

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[info]thatenglishguy

October 9 2004, 16:19:48 UTC 7 years ago

That's cool. I've worked in a couple of bookseller's but never had anything like that happen.

[info]ninjarugrat

October 9 2004, 16:20:24 UTC 7 years ago

I hazard to guess it might be the type of folks who go to Burning Man. There's quite a large bunny contingent there every year.

[info]immoralusername

October 9 2004, 16:25:41 UTC 7 years ago

heh. That's hilarious.

[info]sonoazure

October 9 2004, 16:40:00 UTC 7 years ago

That is just great! I can imagine how it might be kind of annoying to have to deal with, but so cool. Do keep us posted.

[info]kittenaskat

October 9 2004, 17:30:32 UTC 7 years ago

oh, not annoying at all. very funny, being enjoyed by all in the store!

[info]romulusnr

October 9 2004, 16:44:58 UTC 7 years ago

That "ex libris" line seems suspiciously awkward. Could the secret be hidden here?

[info]a_muse_d

October 9 2004, 17:06:13 UTC 7 years ago

you know that "ex libris" means, essentially, "from the library of", right?

[info]romulusnr

October 9 2004, 18:13:14 UTC 7 years ago

yes yes but why "y trabet" to go with it

[info]kittenaskat

October 9 2004, 18:24:16 UTC 7 years ago

y trabet. say it fast. white rabbit.

[info]romulusnr

October 9 2004, 23:58:36 UTC 7 years ago

oic

[info]romulusnr

October 10 2004, 00:00:12 UTC 7 years ago

i thought it was an amusing coincidence that the phrase "ex libris y. trabet" contains the letters for the word "rabbit", but i guess it's not so strange now :)

[info]a_muse_d

October 9 2004, 19:56:45 UTC 7 years ago

see the title of the song of the lyrics i posted in my comment to this entry at the bottom of the page :)

[info]kittenaskat

October 9 2004, 17:32:58 UTC 7 years ago

nah. Ex libris means "from the library of"

[info]jaromil

October 9 2004, 17:20:58 UTC 7 years ago

that is hopping funny

[info]a_muse_d

October 9 2004, 18:00:20 UTC 7 years ago

and if you go chasing rabbits
and you're going to fall
tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
has given you the call
ask Alice
when she was just as small...

~Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"

good song, good song :)

[info]maeveh

October 10 2004, 08:39:16 UTC 7 years ago

Must be something in the air.

A guy in a white bunny suit walked into the Lock & Keel up in Ballard last night ... and he was closely followed by a man with a stuffed cow on his head.

Very odd indeed.

[info]djwudi

October 10 2004, 18:40:34 UTC 7 years ago

Just FYI, I've re-posted this on Metroblogging: Seattle. Hope you don't mind! ;)

[info]normalgrrl

October 10 2004, 23:46:14 UTC 7 years ago

I'd love to see pics of those covers!

[info]kittenaskat

October 18 2004, 11:00:31 UTC 7 years ago

I'll try to remember to take my camera to work today!
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