Re: Librarians, was RE: [SG] HAMR

>At 08:43 PM 3/18/02 +1100, you wrote:
>>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.
>>
>>That's one of the scariest things I've seen on this group for a long
time.
>>Poor kid. I hope the parent made a formal complaint... or at least had
a
>>little talk with the teacher. It may have been a mis-communication. I
hope.
>
>As do I.  It's happened before.  Teacher to child to parent -- there's
>bound to be miscommunication.
>
>>> 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?
>>Erk.
>
>I work in a public library -- schools are at least a little better.  We
did
>recieve a few phone calls the next week from a fellow who had lost his
>"dietary supplement" in the library.
>
>>The final scariest thing is that your emergency services immediately
>>suspected
>>a biowar attack rather than drugs. O Tempora, O Mores!
>
>This was back in December, when 911 was getting calls about white
powder
>every five minutes or so.  I hated to participate in the hysteria -- I
knew
>what the reaction was going to be -- but what choice was there?
>
>But anyway...I'm being all off-topical.  I'm trying to think of
something
>to bring us back around to SGII, but all I can think of is GW's Space
>Marine Combat Librarians.  I should pick up some just so I can run a
>scenarion about their launching a raid on an enemy stronghold to
collect
>some overdue books....

At Minamicon (UK anime convention that I attended a couple of weeks ago)
we
saw the first few eps of "Read or Die", a fairly new anime series about
(wait for it) the Covert Special Operations Division of the British
Library....!
Yes, it is JUST as silly as you'd imagine (probably more so actually) -
Cute Superpowered Girl Librarians rescuing priceless/arcane/dangerous
books
from the clutches of Evil Master Villains - trust me, you need to see
this,
if only for the wonderful image of the heroine's wall-to-wall (and
floor)book-stuffed apartment in the opening sequence.....  ;-)

Jon (GZG)
>
>John Crimmins
>johncrim@voicenet.com
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