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The Person
Achieving moderation through extremes.
 
 
 
 
"Like hockey players, bookworms are called for icing."
 
I get lots of email about this Salada Tea bag pun.
(See Fortunes and Bad Puns)
 
I honestly do not know what it means.
The best explanations I can come up with or have heard so far follows.
Send your suggestions along and I'll add them here.
 
  
    From Jacinda Bragg: Icing is called when a player shoots the puck over the other 
    teams RED LINE , usually done on purpose to kill time.   
    I would guess that the fortune means that bookworms kill their time 
    simply by reading.
 
 
  From David Prach: It could be a misprint and should have read something like:
  "Like hockey players, bakers are called for icing."
 
 
  The pun implies bookworms are cold, personality wise.
  
    From David Prach: Along the same lines maybe both hockey players and bookworms can give you
    the "cold shoulder".
 
 
  From Alison: Given that icing can mean ensuring victory, frosting, or killing, might
  the pun have something to do with intellectual victory. As in:
  You call on a bookworm if you want to cement facts or make sure you do
  something right so you can win.
    From Carla, the tea-drinking librarian: The closest I could 
    guess is that perhaps because the bookworms (worm-type, I mean) eat 
    through books and have to leave something behind, perhaps it looks like 
    icing on the edge of a book when a bookworm has gone through it?
 
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