Talking to a friend last night he asked, “How many jokes does a joke book have?”
Me: 500 – that’s a nice round number.
Him: I read the 1001 joke book as a child. It didn’t have 1001 jokes. I know. I counted them.
Me: Were you that kid on Blue Peter who counted the perforations in a Tetley teabag?
Him: No. But I know him.
Me: Doesn’t matter how many jokes. It’s the fish that John West reject that make them the best.
Anyway, on that whimsey there’s the other “I don’t know” – as my email inbox has just pinged with a message from ‘Dave aka Evil Prof Pixel Masher’ who says, “You’ve asked for joke illustrations to be sent to you at 300dpi, but with no reference to *what size*?”
I tell him that I want the book “ordinary paperback sized” as I figure that’s a good size for taking to the toilet for a dump.
He does some spooky design-maths tells me that’s 1650px X 2550px. Which is pretty fucking huge.