Um... you want fries with that?
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seandcI'm in the middle of Terry Pratchett's new book Going Postal at the moment, and saw a little line about the kind of questions libraries exist to answer:
"'Is this the laundry?' 'How do you spell surreptitious?' and, on a regular basis: 'Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.'"
Yep, even our library, which doesn't deal with the public as often as the publics do, gets these kind of questions. Could someone explain how "Records and Library" reads as "Buy Food Here"? :lol:
Wow, I've said it before and I'll say it again... why oh why hold the training at Prospect Place? Or rather, that particular room? I swear, I could raise my caffeine levels to "hyperacceleration" (like Fry in the episode of Futurama where he drinks 100 coffees), and an hour in that room would have me sound asleep...
But it is in a very nice location for having a break and a snack... the trees have been planted long enough that they're just under the level of the balcony/walkway. I stood in a spot overlooking two bottlebrushes, and while I was eating I noticed a slightly different patch of green in there - a couple of lorikeets were climbing around the trees having themselves a feed off the bottlebrush flowers (which tend to be about the same size as these parrots). :)
Oh, and we've now got another reason to not bother picking up the phone. Not only the telemarketers, now we have the prime minister sending automated messages of support for the local coalition candidates. Blah. Bad enough we hear him on the news and tv ads. Kind of torn between saying "at least it's only going out in marginal seats" and "I wish I was in a marginal seat" (unless there's a big upset on Saturday, Tangney is one of the safest government seats there is :( ).
"'Is this the laundry?' 'How do you spell surreptitious?' and, on a regular basis: 'Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.'"
Yep, even our library, which doesn't deal with the public as often as the publics do, gets these kind of questions. Could someone explain how "Records and Library" reads as "Buy Food Here"? :lol:
Wow, I've said it before and I'll say it again... why oh why hold the training at Prospect Place? Or rather, that particular room? I swear, I could raise my caffeine levels to "hyperacceleration" (like Fry in the episode of Futurama where he drinks 100 coffees), and an hour in that room would have me sound asleep...
But it is in a very nice location for having a break and a snack... the trees have been planted long enough that they're just under the level of the balcony/walkway. I stood in a spot overlooking two bottlebrushes, and while I was eating I noticed a slightly different patch of green in there - a couple of lorikeets were climbing around the trees having themselves a feed off the bottlebrush flowers (which tend to be about the same size as these parrots). :)
Oh, and we've now got another reason to not bother picking up the phone. Not only the telemarketers, now we have the prime minister sending automated messages of support for the local coalition candidates. Blah. Bad enough we hear him on the news and tv ads. Kind of torn between saying "at least it's only going out in marginal seats" and "I wish I was in a marginal seat" (unless there's a big upset on Saturday, Tangney is one of the safest government seats there is :( ).
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The answer is simple, my friend
Date: 2004-10-06 07:49 am (UTC)People. Are. Stupid.
Re: The answer is simple, my friend
Date: 2004-10-06 08:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-06 12:11 pm (UTC)What do you think of it so far?
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Date: 2004-10-07 08:03 am (UTC)I'm not finding it as laugh-out-loud funny as the earlier ones were (like a decade ago now...) but it's a page-turner :)
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Date: 2004-10-07 08:08 am (UTC)