I was selling bandannas, at the NLMA meet in Chicago. Rather early on, one man bought a brown hanky :shock: I said; "We don't sell many of those," and he said "yeah, I hardly ever meet anyone who wants to play brown" I suggested that he give me his hotel room number or something, and he did. Later that day-- there was another guy, sporting a brown bandanna! I beckoned him over, and handed him the little slip of paper. He was pretty happy about it, once he got over the fact that a woman had given it to him...

<Cue music.> "Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match, find me a find, catch me a catch." One has to wonder, though, whether the encounter went something like this.

*Falls over laughing* OMG that's hilarious.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. The usage dictionary I've been recommending over and over at this forum. The entire book can be viewed online at Google Books - I have no idea why. Of course there's a catch. As a reviewer points out, the odd pages of the first one hundred pages are accidentally cropped.