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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Full "Paper" Jacket

Does anybody remember "Full Mental Jacket," a 1980 film by Stanley Kubrich? Those that follow this blog know how much I enjoy writing about the origins and meanings of all sorts of expressions, phrases, sayings; whatever you call these utterances that radiate from our mouths on a daily basis. The first one in my book; "cooking the books," is an idiom and it's modern meaning is accounting fraud, and the last one is a phrase; "that's all folks!" which comes from the funny cartoons by Warner Brothers called, Looney Tunes. Full paper is as far from full metal as you can get. A cover of a hardbound book is called a "dust jacket," versus the outside of a softcover book is called, duh, a "cover." (I took the liberty of changing "dust" to "paper" so I could incorporate this phrase in comparing it with the Kubrich film.) Full metal jacket is a bullet designed by Lt. Eduard Rubin of the Swiss Army in 1882 and was used as standard ammunition in 1886 for the French Mle [Rifle]. The last process I had to check and double check was the dust jacket for my book and it's lucky I did. I found two significant things that needed to be corrected before my book went to press and the picture at the right is the final product. The next event will be the printing process. Halaula!

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