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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.
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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.
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From David Prach:
It could be a misprint and should have read something like:
"Like hockey players, bakers are called for icing."
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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".
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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.
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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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