Re: Librarians

Alan and Carmel Brain schrieb:
> From: "John Crimmins" <johncrim@voicenet.com>
> 
> > (Today's Gem:
> > PARENT: My child has to do a report on a famous 
> African-American, and her teacher assigned...here it is: Marie
Curie.
> 
> Oh My Sainted Aunt.

For a moment I thought they might have referred to Mariah Carey. But
she isn't Afro-American either.

> > Get up, time to go.  Hey, look!  A bag full of white 
> powder.  Great, time to call the cops...."
> >
> > (It happened.  As soon as they heard "white powder" 911 
> > connected me to the fire department, but it turned out to be a bag
full of 
> > drugs, just as I'd suspected.  Coke or heroin; I don't know
which.)
> 
> ...and that's another of the scariest things. You mean 
> the drugs-in-schools bit in the US isn't just media hype or confined
to s very 
> small percentage? 

It happens in Germany, too :-(

And on a more positive note:

Popular poster in German libraries:
"Bibliotheken sind gefährliche Brutstätten des Geistes"
"Libraries are dangerous breeding-places for independent minds"
(19th-century censor's statement)

And an Australian bumper sticker (ca.1980)
"If you can read this, thank you primary school teacher"

Greetings