Barry's lexicographic non-responses

[Gerald Cohen]

    Barry may keep his guns holstered. I'll ask the excellent
reference librarians in my campus' library to follow up on his
requests.

Gerald Cohen


At 10:05 AM -0400 8/8/02, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>NO HELP FOR THE LEXICOGRAPHER
>
>    These past few weeks must be a record on the lexicography non-response
>front.
>    For example, I e-mailed the San Francisco Public Library and asked if they
>had a menu collection, or a menu for Bernstein's Fish Grotto in particular.
>No response.  This was not a particularly difficult question.  They
>ordinarily respond within two days.
>    I e-mailed the Boston Public Library (using its own form) and asked about
>menu collections in the BPL and the Boston area.  No response.  They noramlly
>respond within two days, also.  I didn't feel that these questions were
>particularly difficult.  I didn't intend them as "stumpers."
>    I e-mailed ten potato people about "jojo potatoes" and got back one
>response.
>    I e-mailed the Yiddish Book Center at Hampshire College in Massachusetts.
>I told the Center that I was interested in cookbooks and book chapters
>involving food.  No response.
>    I e-mailed Craig Kilborn's LATE LATE SHOW and told him that one of the
>"five questions" asked of him was wrong--the westernmost capital of Europe is
>Reykjavik, not Lisbon.  No response. OK, that was television.  They're
>required to get things wrong and not respond to the public.
>    But seriously, what do I do?  E-mail the Yiddish Book Center again?  Go to
>the Boston Public Library and San Francisco Public Library with guns?