Where the heck is my book?

klankymen · Post by **klankymen** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 4:41 pm

OK, this may possibly be the weirdest thread ever.

I lost my book in a big messy mansion, and I've been looking for it for over 5
hours.

Now based on the thesis that many brains are better that one, even if the other brains don't actually know what exactly they're thinking about, I'm making this post.

I feel like I'm going over the same places over and over again. I lost the book between reading on the sofa, watching tv in the basement, and eating in the dining room.

Anyone just throw out any random suggestion where it might be, cause everything I can think of is futile - even if it's just "mr brown, in the ballroom, with the candlestick"

If it helps your brainwaves, it's a Terry Pratchett novel. If this thing works, telepathy has been proven.

Thanks

EDIT: 9 views, no answer - don't be hesitant, just say anything!

mr_plow_king · Post by **mr_plow_king** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 5:43 pm

Did you check on the roof ? you never know, maybe a Squirrel took it to read it outside

VanWaGuy · Post by **VanWaGuy** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 7:03 pm

My guess will be under the couch or under the cushions.

Post by **Rusty075** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 7:10 pm

Well since you know it will be in the last place you'll look, try looking there first. It would save a lot of time.

mr. poopyhead · Post by **mr. poopyhead** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:54 pm

did you check the can? i'm always reading while sitting on the throne and sometimes i leave the book in there...

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:10 am

I remember my mother walking around looking for something lost, saying...."Nothing is lost in the eyes of God". You'd think a flag or something would pop up....never happened.

Were you alone when this happened? Someone could have moved the book anywhere. Check the trash cans, any book shelves, on top of the fridge. But mostly...retrace your actions in your mind. It's somewhere...

klankymen · Post by **klankymen** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:17 am

tried every single one (except the roof - though I was offered to look out there), not to mention numerous retraces of my route in my head. I've spent hours over hours looking everywhere possibly imaginable, and I'm completely stumped.

djkest · Post by **djkest** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:17 pm

Under your bed, in the bedroom

In the laundry room on top of the washing machine (if you have such a thing)

In the kitchen, on the counter

or option D:
you never actually had the book! It was in your head.

Otto69 · Post by **Otto69** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:54 pm

Kitchen cabinet. You put it up there while preparing a snack while reading.

Trip · Post by **Trip** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:41 am

under something on a counter

near somewhere you're avoiding - e.g. location of ex-girlfriend

klankymen · Post by **klankymen** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:10 am

I don't know how it would have traveled 300km to said person, so the only option left is that it was captured by aliens. I'm now leaving the house where it was lost, so I guess the only thing left is - screw it.
Only costs a pound at a used bookstore anyway.
very strange event in any case.

VanWaGuy · Post by **VanWaGuy** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:28 pm

I still bet it was in the couch.

We had a couch were there was basically an open slot between the back and the bottom, and anything that went back between the back and bottom cushions would be out of site. One day, I turned the couch upside down and found 3 paperback books, several dog toys, lots of change, and a pair of pliers.

peerke · Post by **peerke** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:00 pm

My Terry Pratchett reading girlfriend suggests it's inside the fridge but since you will have left the building by now we will never know.
BTW She's jealous about the Â£1 price for a secondhand copy. In The Netherlands you can not get them secondhand let alone for Â£1.

klankymen · Post by **klankymen** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:04 pm

I did check the fridge though, along with every other imaginable, and unimaginable place.
As for the 1 quid price, you can't get em used here in Germany either... but luckily I've got relatives in England

I set my little cousins (it was their house) a reward of 1$.... I will have bought the book again by then probably, but just for the sake of it being found.

sjoukew · Post by **sjoukew** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 10:51 am

When I can't find the thing I am looking for, I stop searching, and start looking RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, very often I am just not seeing it when it is staring me right in the face

adam_mccullough · Post by **adam_mccullough** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:10 am

What was the book? Maybe heuristics alone will not give us an answer and we should consider anthropomorphisation of the volume itself, in the hope that we can figure out where it might _like_ to be...

floffe · Post by **floffe** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:18 am

You could just make the Nac Mac Feegle find it for you

derekva · Post by **derekva** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:23 pm

The family rule in our house is: "When in doubt, look under your butt" - (e.g. check under the seat cushions and where you are sitting).