Making up in verve and volume what they lack in reading skills

Today we had two visitors of a particular regional persuasion who were browsing peacefully in the atomic history section. Until they came upon Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb, that is.

Apparently they thought it was a cookbook or how-to manual rather than a history, and the husband said loudly, "I bet every A-rab in the country has this book!"

Ellen waited on them, and after they left, she said in the loud, quacking accent of that particular regional persuasion, "Ah tucked mah Star o' David necklace inta mah shirt, 'cause if he don't lahk A-rabs, he shore ain't gonna lahk us Jews."

A cookbook for all them guys who ain't Murcans.