Soup Snakes

Sarah has been getting me to listen to some of the audio books that I get for her.  Most of the books are autobiographies of female comedians.  Many of them have some very funny parts.  One of the books was by Mindy Kaling who was a writer, director and actor on The Office, a show I used to watch.  She said fellow writer BJ Novak had written the funniest joke she ever heard.  He said he had wasted his time in college because he did a major in psychology and a minor in reverse psychology.  I got a kick out of another joke that he wrote for The Office.  Michael, the boss, was in love with a former employee and she had come back to visit.  So Michael had written her a poem.  When he was talking to her, he pulled a crumpled piece of paper out his pocket to read her the poem but he couldn't read his own handwriting.  He started with "We are ... soup snakes".  It turns out that he had been trying to read the words "soul mates".  I sent a message to Sarah saying we were soup snakes but Sarah hadn't listened to the book yet and didn't know the joke.  I had to wait until she listened to the book.  Then I listened to a book of short stories by BJ Novak.  There was a really funny one about the best selling author John Grisham, who writes thrillers about lawyers.  Anyway the story goes that he wrote a book but couldn't think of a good title.  So he sent the draft of the book to his publisher and just wrote The Something on the front.  The editor made some edits and sent it back but I guess he sent it to the wrong email address and John Grisham didn't see it.  So since Grisham didn't reply, the editor thought he was okay with the changes and sent it to the publisher for printing.  It went out with the title The Something and John Grisham was mad at the editor and the publisher for making the stupid mistake.  He was going to write the title after he had some time to think about it.  Anyway the book became a best seller and after John Grisham had bawled out the editor, he relaxed and thought it would be nice to see The Something among the books on his shelf.