BS: are libarys rubbish?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 11:10 AM

Ted have you seen a nuclear powered Jag? That's all they drive you know. Fussy little buggers. But on their money who can blame them.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:24 AM

I suppose its all right for them that likes laughing...can't see much in it, meself.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Noreen
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:11 AM

They could even give wing signals

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:07 AM

Thanks GUEST, but on a more serious note, the seagulls would of course buy nuclear powered cars that don't need refuelling. Simple, nes pas?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:04 AM

100! I thank you!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:04 AM

99

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 09:58 AM

Who's going to unscrew the petrol fuel lid when they need to fill up? Men, think they know everything!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 09:53 AM

hmmmm..... interesting. BUT, a gang of seagulls could drive a car no problem. Three of them on the pedals, two to steer, and one to sqawk instrutions to them from the dashboard. There, simple eh?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Layah
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 08:20 AM

I expect seagulls would be crap drivers, because they don't have hands, and even overcoming that difficulty, they certainly wouldn't be able to operate the pedals and see out at the same time. And I'm not sure they have enough power to push a clutch at all, so unless they were in an automatic they wouldn't even be able to start.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 05:15 AM

Are seagulls crap drivers then? I hadn't thought about that before.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gervase
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 05:07 AM

Aha.Thismay be the answer!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Davetnova
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 06:02 AM

Oooooohhhhh. Handbags!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gervase
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 05:14 AM

It's not the spelling, it's the inanity - the constant "Is xxx rubbish?" sort of thread that's posted more as a form of cyber-Tourette's than in a genuine search for an answer. If I really believed that John was interested in and could learn from the responses I might have a different opinion, but all I see is rather sad attention seeking of the 'Look at me, I'm zany, I am,' sort of fashion.
Such people - the sort of people who ask a question and don't give a toss about the reply, or who don't engage their brains before posting apparently random verbiage do rattle my cage.
It's not that his opinions are different from mine, it's just that they're not even fully-fledged opinions; they're the equivalent of someone in a pub lurching up and shouting through a haze of crisp fragments: "Seagulls! They're crap drivers, aren't they?" Once may be funny, but too often and it's maybe time to change pubs or have a quiet word with the landlord.
Perhaps it's a north-south thing. Perhaps it's just that I'm an intolerant stupid moany person. But if someone can point out to me the gnomic wit and subtle humour that I've clearly missed in the original post, I'll gladly stand them a pint of whatever it is John drinks.
Anyhap - it's probably better than I don't go near these sort of threads in future.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 09:28 PM

I think the basic idea of the thread was to entertain.

As Eeyore says, ballons, parties, here we are! and there we are!

If you are a librarian, or a quantity surveyor who was just passing byand got sucked in. If you were dragged away from the serious concerns of the day: deciding who was nicest Saddam Hussein or the IRA.......call it a sabbatical.

Perhaps you can make the time up if you get up earlier and start taking cold showers.

The deadly serious nature of this thread is hinted at in the title - one would have thought.....

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Layah
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 08:55 PM

Interesting that some humor seems to have trouble being communicated through written media. I don't have much experience with jOhn (he disapeared about when I showed up, hmmm....) but I haven't noticed any reason from anything I've seen him post and things I've seen people say about him to take anything he says seriously. It occurs to me there's a lot of stuff that gets posted in BS that I would find offensive if I thought people were being serious. But since I don't it's all funny. I think I'm probably happier this way, and if I suddenly find out these people are being serious I'll be very disapointed.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 06:36 PM

Do I detect that we are not all people of similar taste and attitude? Could it be that some of us actually have different notions of what is important, funny, stupid and relevant? Oh, horrors!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: bbc
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 05:46 PM

Gervase, I've been wondering about John, too. He sure puts out a lot of BS. In general, I avoid any thread he has started. This time, I got sucked in because I am a librarian. If his threads have anything to recommend them, I guess I'm just too dense to see it.

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 12:10 PM

Please don't get into either a shouting OR a pissing match or I'll have to ask you to leave the library.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Noreen
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 07:29 AM

Hmmm, Gervase- you decide that jOhn is the village idiot because..?

Perhaps it's that his posts are not in perfect English, correctly phrased and spelled?

Or because his opinions differ from your own?

Neither are good reasons to think of someone as an idiot.

He has certainly rattled your cage, perhaps it might be useful to consider why?

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gervase
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 07:20 AM

Sorry John, I still don't get it.
What was the point of your original post?
Maybe I am stupid, but I replied because I think:
Libraries = not rubbish.
First post = rubbish from stupid moany person who maybe should read some books instead of writing drivel every time his fingers stray near a keyboard.
Silly me, eh, trying to reason with the Mudcat Village's very own idiot!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 09:16 AM

It's okay, j0hn, if he moans too loudly in my library we'll ask him to either quiet down or leave.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 08:17 PM

big writing= gervase is moany person.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 08:12 PM

Mr Gervase- Wahts your bloody proplem then?

you read all thread, and post to it loasds of times, then say "johns threads are rubbish"

this is make you looking like a stupid person!
i explain=

perhaps you will allow me to draw an analogy?

a man goes to restaraunt, eats meal, waiter goes up to him a few times, asks is everything ok?
man says "yes, its great, really nice etc"
man finishes all meal, licks plate clean,
but then moans, = "that meal was rubbish, i'm not paying"!




If you don't like my threads, don;t read them.
dont read them, post to them a few times, then moan about them!
[makes you look like a stupid moany person].

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 05 - 09:08 AM

And?

Been there, seen that. Also the Lipstick Librarian, the Laughing Librarian, and all the other pages.

As for shagging a trainee librarian -- well, I suggest a library degree. It ain't ALL cat & class!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Mar 05 - 08:38 AM

ps...

http://bmeworld.com/gailcat/

"Welcome to the web page of the Modified Librarian. Here we will discuss the concept and practice of body modification as it relates to librarians as persons and professionals."

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST,no way do I disclose my name this time
Date: 08 Mar 05 - 08:36 AM

no one here ever shagged newly graduated trainee librarians..

the dirty [ even kinky ] little minx's

talk about secret lives and passions...!!!!???

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 05 - 08:20 AM

That comes from swingin' that almighty big sword. Damned lucky the other fella didn't cut that right one right off. Fortunately, I managed to distract him with a pacifier and a new bottle of milk, burped him, and he dropped right off to sleep.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 11:27 PM

Rapaire, you are quite impressive in that picture. Please, note, however, that your right boob got a little too much exercise. Back to your left-arm pushups.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 09:58 PM

Nope. Google (and the rest of the search engines) make NO distiction between true and false, and for that matter whether or not the web pages that they have stored and indexed ("cached") still even exist.

And did you know that it's library school graduates (i.e., librarians) who developed the indexes and do the indexing? True.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: goodbar
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 08:23 PM

i had to do real research for once the other day. so my class went tot he library and damn there's a lot of books. i have kind of a small school but when i really took it all in and looked into all the shit they had i was amazed.

good stuff, but it's quicker and easier to use google. :P

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 06:44 PM

Right. Some Winamps are backward compatible and some are not.

Sounds ugly all right, and I yam glad to hear you're no part of it. I would have guessed that! :D

A

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 06:18 PM

Gee, it plays back through Winamp for me.

It ain't a library's grievances, it's a library employee's grievances. Ugly stuff, like religious and age discrimination and whistle-blowing retaliation is being charged.

I'm glad it's not my library. Then again, I wouldn't even consider such stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 03:38 PM

That particular piece was encoded using an obsolete or non-standard codec, is what it is. So the number of systems it will play back through is limited. But that's okay, I didn't want to hear librarians whinging anyway!! :D


A

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 02:58 PM

I dunno what's wrong, Amos. Are your speakers on? Try going to www.kpvi.com and clicking on "News." The story is "Library grievances."

As for offending everyone...darn, I thought that was my job. Maybe that's why nobody comes to visit me. But then, this IS Idaho, and bathing is optional (if not actively discouraged).

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 01:14 PM

The story play swith no sound on my system, even thou other Win Media files play ok. Dunno wazzup wid dat.

Rapaire I think there is a slight misunderstanding. A library, by rights, should contain enough material to be able to ffend almost anyone, true, because it represents such a wide spectrum of points of view.

That does not mean your job is to offend as many people as possible!! Just that you should be equipped to do so!! Viva la difference!


A

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 12:21 PM

Dang right it does! If I'm not offending you I'm not doing my job.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 10:57 AM

A Good Library has something to offend everyone

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: GUEST,E Male
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 09:46 AM

som libarys have rubish peeple in theM or9 staning outsIde smookingg;

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 11:59 AM

It isn't all peachy-keen.   This aired on KPVI television yesterday -- you'll need speakers and a media player like Winamp.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gurney
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 02:29 AM

As Greg Stevens writes about his library, so it seems to be happening here too. More CDs, DVDs, Videos, computer games (Even with computers to play them on), lots of desks for non-ratepayers to do their homework on and to hold noisy social groups around, toddlers running about screeching.....
less and less books, less peace, no archives, only books that are recognised as 'classics' are replaced with new copies-everything else,regardless of popularity, gone forever.

I know change is a constant, but in this case I don't like it.
Rubbish? Not yet, but working toward it.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Morticia
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 12:25 PM

never invoke anything bigger than your head

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 12:11 PM

I summon only the minor daemons with this spell. The really, really awful ones summon the fiends such as Yog Sothof, Vtls, and the spirits of All Defunct Library Schools: Columbia, Pratt, Carnegie Mellon, etc.

(Case Western Reserve, my bibliotecal alma mater, is NOT included amongst the ADLS fiends, and this is why.)

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Morticia
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 11:53 AM

Gervase, I won't have a word said against him and it's not like you not to grasp when someone is taking the piss, which he does with such style and breath taking skill that I would willingly worship at his feet forevermore.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gervase
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 11:33 AM

Is he lucid 'in the flesh'? Maybe his wit and wisdom just doesn't translate well online.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Noreen
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 09:56 AM

Gervase, you obviously need to get to know jOhn better.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Burke
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 09:35 AM

What's WINSLO?

Where's VTLS?

How could you leave out Dewey & Ranganathan?

Gotta go! Have to get that MS update loaded.

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 07:00 AM

(_@_)

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Gervase
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 06:49 AM

What is it about John in Hull? He starts a thread with some in incoherent rambling, we all jump on the bandwagon and say how much we like libraries, and he buggers off, presumaby to start another inane thread somewhere else.
Oi, John! Did you actually mean that stuff in the first post, or are you just being an arse? Let's have your thoughts.
(or maybe he's just been thrown out of the library for being an arse!)

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 10:35 PM

You asked for it!

Through the Power of MARC, I conjure up
The evils of 008,
The power of 856,
The authority of 100.

By the Call of AACR, I bring forth
The authority of ISBD(M),
The power of UKMARC,
The evils of : and ; and /.

By Cutter and by Colon,
By LC and by UDC,
By Expansive and by DDC:

By Shores and by Shera,
By Butler and by Boole,
By Cutter and by Casanova,
By Sheehan and by Boorstin,
By Watterston and by Meehan,
By Spofford and by Stephenson,
By Young and by Putnam,
By MacLeish and by Evans,
By Mumford and by Billington:

Come, WINSLO
Come, CAMELS
Come, GCLC
Come, LiLI
Come, NOLA
Come, SOLO
Come, AMIGOS
Come, OCLC
Come, ACRL
Come, PLA
Come, LCEI
Come, LYNX
Come, III
Come, DYNIX
Come, SIRSI
Come, DRA
Come, PALS
Come, ALA
Come, AALL
Come, all ye fiends of bibliotecal acronyms:

And give to Burke that which she so richly deserves!

Subject: RE: BS: are libarys rubbish?
From: Burke
Date: 02 Mar 05 - 07:38 PM

Send in the CIP and MARC squads, I'm up to it!