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maryte
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Location: Blinding You With Library Science! Gender: ![Female](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_female.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 6, 2008 - 8:13am |
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maryte wrote:"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. It's an enormous force for good." - Senator (and now President-Elect) Barack Obama, D-IL
Generally, books don't judge, and if one does, it can always be put down in exchange for one that does not. When everything and everyone in the "real world" didn't understand me, I could always find someplace that did.
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samiyam
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Location: Moving North ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 6, 2008 - 8:10am |
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smokinsean wrote: "There were times when I had "jock itch" when I would go hours not touching it, so that when I finally put my hands down there to scratch it felt so damned good I almost passed out." ~ Bill Cosby ~
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samiyam
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Location: Moving North ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 6, 2008 - 8:07am |
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oldviolin wrote:
In the truth of hindsight, it was probably my way out of myself and into a world of saving imagination. We would line up and walk down various halls to that magic place, where I usually had the reference area to myself. I would pour over maps and art and history and every encyclopedia set I could get my hands on. I would spend time with a huge globe and solar system model and read about space and ships and oceans full of fascinating creatures. I read about sharks and graphic accounts of shark attacks long before they became the horror plot for a movie. Somehow, that resonated with me to the world outside, where the war was on our black and white TV every night. You know, the war in Viet Nam, and the war in the streets and working class neighborhood of the city where I grew up in the racially divisive 60's.
Oh, c'mon... tell me you didn't notice the pudgy boy in the corner working his way through the EB volume by volume? ![](graphics/smiles/icon_wink.gif) The bittersweet for me is realizing that there's some mis-understood kid, even today, walking into a library and finding reason to live.
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oldviolin
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Location: esse quam videri Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 6, 2008 - 7:26am |
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maryte wrote:"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. It's an enormous force for good." - Senator (and now President-Elect) Barack Obama, D-IL
In the truth of hindsight, it was probably my way out of myself and into a world of saving imagination. We would line up and walk down various halls to that magic place, where I usually had the reference area to myself. I would pour over maps and art and history and every encyclopedia set I could get my hands on. I would spend time with a huge globe and solar system model and read about space and ships and oceans full of fascinating creatures. I read about sharks and graphic accounts of shark attacks long before they became the horror plot for a movie. Somehow, that resonated with me to the world outside, where the war was on our black and white TV every night. You know, the war in Viet Nam, and the war in the streets and working class neighborhood of the city where I grew up in the racially divisive 60's.
Sorry...I'm feeling quite meloncholy these days." Lives changed for the better" is a subjective statement at best. It is an enormous force for good, and By God I am thankful for it. ..But out there...in the ethos...where chickens come home to roost, a child has grown older far quicker than he has grown to understand the "jigsaw puzzle falling apart." My story is mine alone, I'm well aware of this. Still, I can remember like it was yesterday that I became aware of things that I simply could not process... like feelings of humiliation and fear and useless self worth and incredible hatred and bigotry. And I'm a certified caucasian for crying out loud! The world...that's where I learned to die. Fortunately, the library is where I first learned to live, and that much of what I was learning out there in the world was a lie. Doesn't matter now for me I suppose. I've been blessed with a sense of emotional engineering, helping from the inside out to cope and relate with some sense of dignity that which will tear a child...and a tree, apart, limb from limb.
I have no great achievement in this world to point to, and time goes by oh so fast. Vicariously, the library of my youth kept open the possibilities for connections that otherwise were being ripped apart. It is no different for kids today, or for me either for that matter...It made a difference that I cannot measure.
/confusing ramble
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duchamp
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Location: Florida Panhandle Gender: ![Female](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_female.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 6, 2008 - 5:57am |
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Southern_Boy wrote: I'm sure I deserved it. I was a real wise ass, if you can believe that.
Nooooo, surely not true.
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Southern_Boy
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Location: On my way to the beach Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 6, 2008 - 5:56am |
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duchamp wrote:![](graphics/smiles/icon_lol.gif) ... be sweet, now. I'm sure I deserved it. I was a real wise ass, if you can believe that.
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duchamp
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Location: Florida Panhandle Gender: ![Female](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_female.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 6, 2008 - 5:54am |
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Southern_Boy wrote: I remember mine too. I got yelled at by the witch behind the counter and never went back.
![](graphics/smiles/icon_lol.gif) ... be sweet, now.
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Southern_Boy
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Location: On my way to the beach Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 6, 2008 - 5:52am |
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duchamp wrote: I remember my first trip to the library, selecting a Dr. Seuss book, and signing/printing my name to the card. It was magic!
I remember mine too. I got yelled at by the witch behind the counter and never went back.
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duchamp
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Location: Florida Panhandle Gender: ![Female](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_female.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 6, 2008 - 5:50am |
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maryte wrote:"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. It's an enormous force for good." - Senator (and now President-Elect) Barack Obama, D-IL
I remember my first trip to the library, selecting a Dr. Seuss book, and signing/printing my name to the card. It was magic!
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maryte
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Location: Blinding You With Library Science! Gender: ![Female](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_female.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 6, 2008 - 5:45am |
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"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. It's an enormous force for good." - Senator (and now President-Elect) Barack Obama, D-IL
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Manbird
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Location: La Villa Toscana Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 5, 2008 - 4:08pm |
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oldslabsides wrote:Tourist at the duty-free store in Windsor, Ontario: How far is it to Toronto from here?
Store clerk: About four hours.
Tourist: Is that in U.S. or Canadian hours? so which is it? because the imperial hour is like 6 minutes longer and it would add up after about 4 hours.
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Red_Dragon
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Location: Dumbf*ckistan ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 5, 2008 - 4:03pm |
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Tourist at the duty-free store in Windsor, Ontario: How far is it to Toronto from here?
Store clerk: About four hours.
Tourist: Is that in U.S. or Canadian hours?
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Red_Dragon
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Location: Dumbf*ckistan ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 5, 2008 - 4:00pm |
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There is no capital of Uraguay, you dummy - it's a country!
~ actor Lorenzo Lamas, to Daily Show host Jon Stewart
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Red_Dragon
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Location: Dumbf*ckistan ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 5, 2008 - 3:58pm |
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Well, we've got this Johnny Lewis in the outfield. They hit a ball to him yesterday, and he turned left, then he turned right, then he went straight back and caught the ball. He made three good plays in one. And Greg Goossen, he's only twenty and with a good chance in ten years of being thirty.
~baseball great Casey Stengel, when asked how the Mets were doing
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Painted_Turtle
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Location: Land of Laughing Waters Gender: ![Female](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_female.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 5, 2008 - 3:25pm |
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NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: We do not have the capitalist attitude to womenmight need to click on larger to read it.. from Nikita Kruschev What a handsome looking pair you two are!
...and of course, the captions great & at least you're not pregnant!
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MonkeyPod
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Location: Florida Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 4, 2008 - 4:08pm |
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NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: We do not have the capitalist attitude to womenmight need to click on larger to read it.. from Nikita Kruschev Bare-foot and with child in the kitchen! What a sport!
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Sean-E-Sean
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Location: Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 4, 2008 - 4:01pm |
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dionysius
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Location: The People's Republic of Austin Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 4, 2008 - 3:24pm |
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NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: We do not have the capitalist attitude to womenmight need to click on larger to read it.. from Nikita Kruschev Barefoot and in the kitchen, comrade!
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NoEnzLefttoSplit
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Nov 4, 2008 - 3:11pm |
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oldviolin wrote: ![](graphics/smiles/icon_cheers.gif) all in the call of duty. Some bastard must have stolen my shoes.
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oldviolin
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Location: esse quam videri Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Nov 4, 2008 - 2:56pm |
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NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: We do not have the capitalist attitude to womenmight need to click on larger to read it.. from Nikita Kruschev That is a fine looking young man you have there Bruski. You're not too bad yourself for a crusty old geezer. ![{#Wink} {#Wink}](scripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/icon_wink.gif) ![{#Good-vibes} {#Good-vibes}](scripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/good-vibes.gif)
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