Someone left a jar of bees in this bookshop and it got people really buzzing – our favourite replies
Well here’s something that doesn’t happen in a bookshop every day. Staff at the London Review Bookshop put out an urgent appeal on Twitter after a chap came into the shop and left something behind. Something not entirely unimportant.
if you were or are the friendly gent (blue coat) who was in the shop half an hour ago and left a big jar of bees on the table in the poetry section, please come back and reclaim your jar of bees. if you aren't, please rt until we find him #FindTheBeeGent
— LRB Bookshop (@LRBbookshop) March 16, 2019
It was then followed by this clarification …
charlie says they’re too large to be bees but i’ve started the hashtag now so it’s too late to change it
— LRB Bookshop (@LRBbookshop) March 16, 2019
… which rather set the tone for the replies which were to follow, which were inventive, funny, and often both at the same time.
1.
In London Town,
A place afar
There was a gent
Who had a jar
Of bees or wasps-
I cannot say-
The problem is
He went awayHe went away
But they did not
And now a bookstore
Has a plot
Without an end
And lacking covers,
But charming all
Good bookstore lovers.
❤️❤️❤️— ApocalypseGirlScout (@LDoty8) March 16, 2019
2.
Be it a wasp or be it a bee
I would be the first to flee— LangMayYerLumReek (@YellowdaffodilI) March 16, 2019
3.
No doubt part of a sting operation.
— Brett Faubert (@planetgravy) March 16, 2019
4.
Classic honeytrap
— Alyson Hunt (@VictorianAlyson) March 16, 2019
5.
Please release bees, let them go
— LangMayYerLumReek (@YellowdaffodilI) March 16, 2019
6.
In London, the home of the Bard,
Was orphaned a swarm of bees (jarred).
Though often in bonnets,
These bees were near sonnets,
Which critics found quite avant-garde.https://t.co/Ay4pF9sbZw— Liberal Limericks (@Libericks) March 16, 2019
7.
The object containing their buzz
Was oxymoronic, because
It both was a jar
And wasn’t ajar,
And thus, what it wasn’t, it was.https://t.co/bX5MSL8MLS— Liberal Limericks (@Libericks) March 16, 2019
8.
Nice to get some freebees once in a while though eh?
— Steve Hey (@SteveHey2) March 16, 2019
9.
This is just to say
I have left
the bees
that are in
the bookstoreand which
I was probably
saving
for no clear reasonForgive me
they were angry
so furious
and so cold— Warren Terra (@warren__terra) March 16, 2019
10.
Please when you find him tell him there is a poetry loving bee scientist who would like to ask for his hand in marriage
— Lewis Bartlett (@BeesAndBaking) March 16, 2019
11.
I left a jar there but it was my beetles wearing their stripey jumpers. And my coat is ‘porpoise’ coloured. I hope you find the correct gent. #FindTheBeeGent
— Gutter Bookshop (@gutterbookshop) March 16, 2019
