There's a whole new generation waiting to be wrecked by you

I got an email from an old friend the other day. I hadn't heard from him for a long time, but he wrote to inform me that he is getting married in a couple of weeks. The wedding's in Alberta, Canada, so I won't be going, but it was still good to hear some of the latest happenings of his life.

When we were undergraduates, this guy pulled off one of the best practical jokes I've ever seen. It still hasn't been corrected to this day. He used to work in a library, and one day when he was bored at work he created an imaginary book and entered it into the library catalog (although how one could ever be bored while working in a library is beyond me). As he was doing so he gave it a list of subject terms that would ensure it would appear in many different catalog searches. It was a subject list to be envied by all other books.

I searched for it after receiving his email, and the information is still there. Here it is, I especially like the 'General Notes' about the book:

Personal Author:
Fish pseud.
Title:
Fishboy rides again : anatomy of freshwater teleosts, autobiographical / Fish.
Publication info:
Abingdon, VA : Icthyo-Publishers, 1996.
Physical description:
xxvii, 382 p. : col. ill., maps, graphs, tables and charts ; 27 cm.
General Note:
"a collection of stories found in a green box near some trees, by a creek in Angel Fire, NM"
General Note:
book almost completely written without capitals. alternate spellings frequent.
Personal subject:
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.
Subject term:
Atlanta Braves (Baseball team)--Collectors and collecting--Juvenile literature.
Subject term:
Accordian--instruction and study.
Subject term:
Airplanes--Piloting.
Subject term:
Animal psychology--Fish.
Subject term:
Architecture--Modern.
Subject term:
Artists as authors.
Subject term:
Australian football.
Subject term:
Cowboy poetry
Subject term:
Predatory animals.
Subject term:
Basketball.
Subject term:
Child psychology.
Subject term:
Children's literature.
Subject term:
Conservation biology.
Subject term:
Costume--England--History--16th century.
Subject term:
Deer hunting.
Subject term:
Drawing--Technique.
Subject term:
Ecology.
Subject term:
Fishes--Migration.
Subject term:
Folklore.
Subject term:
Freshwater fishes.
Subject term:
Gazelles--Behavior
Subject term:
Glass painting and staining.
Subject term:
Green.
Subject term:
Guitar--Instruction and study.
Subject term:
Landscape gardening.
Subject term:
Marine mammals--Cetacians
Subject term:
Mathematical physics.
Subject term:
Gauchos--Argentina.
Subject term:
Plants--Identification.
Subject term:
Geographic Information systems.
Subject term:
Neuroanatomy.
Subject term:
Oceanography--Northwest, Pacific.
Subject term:
Origami
Subject term:
Phrenology.
Subject term:
Bluegrass music.
Subject term:
Mythology.
Added author:
Betts, David J. (fish)
Added author:
Selin, Erma Margaret
Added author:
Hughlett, Jared S. P. (Samuel Peck), 1974- editor.
Holdings HBLL

Copy
Material
Location
927 F27
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Juvenile Literature Collection
Juvenile Collection