Cayuga Street ~ Downtown Cayuga-On-The-Grand

The Neat Little Bookshop is one of twenty businesses on Cayuga Street. We occupy less than two blocks. This quaint little street in the heart of Cayuga runs parallel with and is one street back from the Grand River. The Post Office -- both old and new -- the Library, the Village Green and the Fire Station are on Cayuga Street.

The current businesses are: Anet Computer Services, Back 40 Tap & Grill, Cayuga & District Chamber, Cayuga Motorsports, Cayuga Printing, Cayuga Variety Video, Come Again Laundromat, Grand River Chiropractic, Grand Treats and Treasures, Grand Visions Print & Copy, Habitat Haldimand, Haldimand & Area Woodlot Owners Assoc., Haldimand Stewardship Council, Hartwick Insurance Brokers Ltd., Miller Funeral Home, Neat Little Bookshop, Needles At Work, Peerless Dry Cleaning, P.L.P. Titles Ltd., Sears, Shawn Richarz Barrister and Yanch & Kiernan LLP Barristers. And gracing our street this year, on the corner of Cayuga Street and Highway 3, is the headquarters for The Cayuga 150th Centennial.

http://www.cayuga150th.com/

Your Books ~ "Fondle them; Peer into Them..."

"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them ~ peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye; set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are.

Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances."

~ Winston Churchill

Elizabeth ~ Not a Care in the World

What did the Chicken Say to the Librarian?

The chicken said to the librarian, "Book, book, book!" Thank you to the reader who provided us with not only the punch line to the chicken/frog joke but the entire story and the history of it.
Leave it to the librarians. They have their own website of best jokes. It is worth a visit.
http://lisnews.org/node/15200 The joke is too long to copy here ~ refer to the June 25th, 2005 entry, "Long One."
Oh, and by-the-way, thank you to the unknown author for the perfect copy for a bookshop sign.

The Effectiveness of Signs

Some signs are more effective than others. I think it is fair to say that most portable postings intended to grab the attention of passers-by are not always well-phrased or funny. (Sometimes, words and letters rearranged in the night by a creative Scrabble buff are the best.)

A recently posted sign at Clappison's Corners caused me to Goggle the company name. It was the saying that caught my attention, "Why has no one written the book Ventriloquism for Dummies? Now that is clever.

The company http://www.airsolutionshamilton.com/

Signs

Signs come in every imaginable art form. I like ours. The chicken crying, "Book, book, book." The frog claiming, "Read it, read it, read it."
A customer once told me that his favourite joke is on our sign -- a customer about the same age as our son who created the sign. Why was I not aware of the joke? For a moment, I was startled until I decided our son wouldn't display anything inappropriate. Would he?

The joke goes something like this...
The chicken brought his friend the frog a book.
"Book, book, book!" said the chicken.
"Read it, read it, read it," said the frog.
The frazzled chicken ran for another book, "Book, book, book!"
"Read it, read it, read it," repeated the frog.

Oddly, apparently no one in our family is familiar with the punch line. If the reader knows it, please let us know; after all, it is our shop sign.

11B Cayuga Street ~ Cayuga-On-The-Grand