Libraries are all about progress and learning. The earliest libraries had shelves of papyrus scrolls and now they have things like the internet and e-books. We've come such a long way.
Not in OH, Ride. They got'm laws about carryin' the means to chastise wankers inta libarries.*
On the other hand, I'm not really seeing anything in the relevant statutes that could possibly be construed to refer to the entirely accidental precipitation of an Unabridged from a great height onto the person of such violators of the public weal (not to mention the public keyboards). It's not any sort of weapon at all, it's an innocently useful book, as benign an object as one could imagine.
Um, right? ::blink, blink::
_____________________ * My apologies to every English teacher my whole life.
Swelp me, dirtcrashr, the person who removes an Unabridged from the library by a machete will have to answer to me!
Or did I misunderstand again?
"Collaborative study," OMG, suddenly I'm startin' to see why Ceasar did what he did at Alexandria.
---He didn't have an outdated Brittanica and a half-dozen volunteer book-flingers, though. Not that I'm, like, implying. But turnin' a fire hose on them might damage books. Oh! Hey! Fire-extinguishers at close range?
Or one could simply trip the fire alarm. The friction, you know, it's possibly dangerous.
Be polite, please. (also I'd like to add that I reserve the right to delete any and all comments that I find offensive, argumentative, or just plain tiresome.)
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Have you ever encountered...umm... that situation?
ReplyDeletewhy, yes, Robb - and not that very long ago.
ReplyDeletehere's the link:
http://thebredafallacy.blogspot.com/
2007/10/lieberrian-yo.html
(you'll have to cut & paste twice to get the whole thing)
ReplyDeleteThe video is worth it =)
That's progress fer ya!
ReplyDeleteMakes you want to retest the constitutionality of those internet filters.
ReplyDeleteI suppose you could disable all picture and video file downloads and displays.
Or you could just record all of a user's activity. See if that scares them.
OMG! In a library???????????
ReplyDeleteBoom. Boom. Boom. Stop or I'll shoot.
(drats, backwards again!)
Not in OH, Ride. They got'm laws about carryin' the means to chastise wankers inta libarries.*
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I'm not really seeing anything in the relevant statutes that could possibly be construed to refer to the entirely accidental precipitation of an Unabridged from a great height onto the person of such violators of the public weal (not to mention the public keyboards). It's not any sort of weapon at all, it's an innocently useful book, as benign an object as one could imagine.
Um, right? ::blink, blink::
_____________________
* My apologies to every English teacher my whole life.
Ride - ask any librarian, in any public library. It's not unusual.
ReplyDeleteThey can't do that if it's been removed by machete...
ReplyDeleteWhat, Carl Monday didn't put an end to that?
ReplyDeleteThe Case library had an incidence of, er "collaborative study on that subject" in the 3rd floor reading room. Is that worse?
Swelp me, dirtcrashr, the person who removes an Unabridged from the library by a machete will have to answer to me!
ReplyDeleteOr did I misunderstand again?
"Collaborative study," OMG, suddenly I'm startin' to see why Ceasar did what he did at Alexandria.
---He didn't have an outdated Brittanica and a half-dozen volunteer book-flingers, though. Not that I'm, like, implying. But turnin' a fire hose on them might damage books. Oh! Hey! Fire-extinguishers at close range?
Or one could simply trip the fire alarm. The friction, you know, it's possibly dangerous.