The Quotable J

I may just have to come up with a new blog category: quotables. I seem to be surrounded by wordsmiths, people quick to come up with a clever quip in just the right situation. Perhaps one day if I start my own publishing company, my specialty will be "quotable" books.

At any rate, it happened again today. My two "J" co-workers were marvelling at one of those strange letters submitted by a person who has entirely too much time on his hands. He was writing in response to one of our books, published years ago, that is just this side of going out of print. His criticisms included the CRC, RCA, PCA, Reformed in general, Baptists, Roman Catholics (particularly monks, which he used colorful language to describe), Freud, Machen, Bultmann--and that was just in the first two pages of his document.

At any rate, it gave us all several minutes of merriment (especially the comments about the monks), but we all agreed the document would best be filed in the circular, and it probably wouldn't do much good to respond to the author of the letter. He seemed to be fairly set in his theological opinions.

And that's when J offered up the first entry in what no doubt will one day be an enjoyable volume, an expression offered up in the spirit of "the lights are on but no one's home" observation: "He's a couple volumes short of a complete commentary."

There's nothing quite like good publishing house humor!