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By: Arky H8r of VürdPress

Arky H8r of VürdPress — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:42:46 +0000

Are you sure it isn’t just a guy in an orangutan suit? We had that problem at our library.

If you’d been there when someone asked the librarian why he was dressed like a monkey you wouldn’t ask that question.

Took the doctors three hours to get the banana out.

Ook! Eek!

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By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:47:19 +0000

I saved this from an April 5 (’08) thread on Brent Bozell, and it’s SO apropos:

Fats Durston said,

April 5, 2008 at 9:11

My God he’s hideous. Like if Dr. Zaius raped John Huston.

“He’s my brother! He’s my son! He’s my brother! He’s my son!”
“I said I want the truth!”
“He’s my brother and my son and an Oorang-ootang!”

“Forget it Jake, it’s planet of the apes-town.”

Of course, the Librarian would smoosh up Brent like a rotten orange.

By: Anne Laurie

Anne Laurie — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:27:06 +0000

“BTW, my local librarian is a full grown male orangutan, no one ever complains to him.”

Are you sure it isn’t just a guy in an orangutan suit? We had that problem at our library.

Most of the librarians I know confine their wardrobe homage to Terry Pratchett’s wonderful orangutan to pinback buttons saying “LIBRARIANS RULE OOK”…

By: stryx

stryx — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:53:01 +0000

Also, we don’t do our job as daycare center nearly as well as other governmental operations. For instance, at the dump there are bulldozer rides and lots of tetanus-acquiring possibilities. The police station and jail teach colloquial Spanish, strip-search techniques, and the ability to laugh at desperate people. The emergency room is a great place for children to learn about numbers and the insurance industry a.k.a. Capitalism. And most of the other governmental buildings aren’t open on weekends plus their computers don’t have a reservation system in accordance with Federal internet filtering regulations. All we do is offer little chairs and tables and a do-it-yourself materials selection process, making us complete bastards.

This was great jim.

More please.

By: PeeJ

PeeJ — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:19:24 +0000

I had a bit too much gin last night so I didn’t see the follow-up. Whether this will get to you, jim, I don’t know. I wasn’t actually saying you should take a flying fuck at the moon; I was merely continuing from your “rolling doughnut” comment, a la my hero Kurt Vonnegut.

I apologize for putting it poorly. My fault.

By: DOCTOR Peter Venkman

DOCTOR Peter Venkman — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:39:19 +0000

Yes, it’s true.

Brent Bozell has no dick.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:02:15 +0000

Arky: Ooook?

By: Kylie S.

Kylie S. — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:04:24 +0000

First of all, the Ghostbusters reference just made me really happy.

Second of all, Brent Bozell is a douche. No, really. There is a fairly extensive parallel that could be made between a device meant to flush out all the dirty nasty smells of sexual goings-on from womanparts, rendering them clean as fresh linen, but that instead has no impact other than to make things unhealthier than they were before, and Brent Bozell.

Third of all, and somewhat off-topic, I am queer as Tinky-Winky and normally adore children’s books on the subject… but gay rodents with neurotic nieces are somehow not resonating with me.

By: eruvande

eruvande — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:16:33 +0000

For any who want to see what we librarians hafta put up with.

By: Lukeness

Lukeness — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:09:37 +0000

…the right wing is finally starting to learn how to use Google!

I think this is jumping to a conclusion. Kiki hints at the more likely explanation: Bozell is a subscriber to this New England gay newspaper.

By: Barney

Barney — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:08:54 +0000

I am shocked, shocked to find that a website with not just one, but two forms of punctuation in its name doesn’t appreciate the hard intellectual work that goes into adding scare quotes to a review, thus completely transforming it. Harold Pinter won a Nobel prize for his pauses, not for using a bunch of words that had all been used somewhere else before, you know.

By: DAS

DAS — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:55:58 +0000

Time Lord technology, and thus are not bigger on the inside then they are on the outside

BTW, OT but now that you mention it: was Snoopy a Time Lord?

By: Je support les troops

Je support les troops — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:55:12 +0000

Check out the ad banner on Bay Windows (the New England Gay Newspaper) for Provincetown:

http://www.baywindows.com/edge_viewimage_ad.php?id=1101

Hunks? Check.
Gay Clowns/Mimes? Check.
Bearded guys with leather biker hats? Check.
Pretty but butch ladies? Check.

“Provincetown. Like nowhere else!”

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:34:11 +0000

BTW, my local librarian is a full grown male orangutan, no one ever complains to him

Are you sure it isn’t just a guy in an orangutan suit? We had that problem at our library.

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:00:27 +0000

Thanks for the mention about my review of Uncle Bobby, and your support of the book and the ALA. Just to clarify: I am indeed aware of Mr. Bozell’s reputation. If I seem less than alarmed at his plagiarism, it’s because it doesn’t really surprise me. Not that I’m happy about it.

Also, FYI, Uncle Bobby may be obscure for the moment, but it just came out at the end of March, so it hasn’t had much time to get known. It’s from a major publisher, though (Putnam/Penguin, as it happens), so it should get a fair amount of distribution.

By: Arky H8r of VürdPress

Arky H8r of VürdPress — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:58:31 +0000

Damn it. Some Guy done started the “Shaved/Not Shaved, Cut/Not Cut” debate again.

And he made me snarf water everywhere.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:00:17 +0000

though she does shave a boyfriend.
Repeated without further comment.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:59:28 +0000

That should read “have a boyfriend”. I have no knowledge of their shaving habits.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:58:40 +0000

Incidentally, “Hail to the Geek” is currently my favorite new song of the new year. 2008.

My twenty-something cousin is becoming a librarian, bago, though she does shave a boyfriend.

Ruthie, I to busy being blinding the embarrassingly gaudy limestone cross and Jesus-stone-deathbed they had installed. Seriously, why not just get a giant fresco of dogs playing poker?