"We've got lots of good books. What kinds of books do you like?"

"All the books you don't have."

"Well, if you give me a title, I can look it up on the computer here, and see if I'd be able to special order it for you. What were you looking for?"

"Um...do you have a list?"

A list?? You mean, a paper printout of every single book printed in English in the last 30 years? Yeah, I've got that. Let me go get the forklift, and I'll bring it right out...

I was trying to think of a nice way to explain that the computer I was standing right next to was for all practical purposes "the list," but I was afraid I'd have to explain what a "com-pu-tor" was first, and then my brain started to hurt. Luckily, Mary got involved right about then, and he went over to pester her for a while.

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