Libraries! Founts of knowled- wait, whats that? (nsfw?)

[falthazar]

Ahh, don't you love libraries? Filled with such interesting books like

Awesome, I wonder what its about!
Lets keep looking and see what else we find!

Huh, that sounds interesting, now I can know where that horrible smell is coming from.

Moving on!

awesome, nothing else needs to be said.

Oh I'm sure you are... Maybe you should read this book too:

with a monocle.

Wow, these books sure are awesome! I wonder what else you can find at this sacred and magical pool of all human knowledge, that is a college library...

what? well, thats not SOO weird, it's probably a weird play or something.. Lets just forget about it and move on shall we?

...WHAT?
*scurries away*

erm..well, I guess people need to know...

Ok what the fuck is this?
*puts that down, picks up the next one*

I quit.

[Theremin]

I didn't know the too much information rule extended to libraries too...

[Cade Antilles]

You can find all sorts of weird shit in a library. Just takes some searching. The hardest part is not busting up into uproarious laughter when pure comedic gold is found. Y'know, so as not to disturb all them studious library types.

[falthazar]

Yea! I've noticed, I've worked in a library for nearly two years. First a public one and now the university library. I think I'm going to post all the funny books I find if people want me too, and I invite others to post ones they find.

Also, Nascar romance novels.

[Sable]

Also, Nascar romance novels.

Left Turn: Trouble in the Fast Lane

[Timelady]

That's...wow. Am I the only one who wants to read these now?

[goat]

Ok, two things:

1) I love your library

2) we have a new spambot! Time to get flaggin'

[falthazar]

That's...wow. Am I the only one who wants to read these now?

You know something scary though? I won't open any books in that library anymore. The first one I opened had a funny looking guy with really reflective sunglasses on the front, and that's it. Inside were pictures of penises, closed that book damn quick. That was in the photography section, in a completely different section (a whole floor different) I opened a random book...and its a picture of a naked old lady.
Never looking in a book in that library again.

and, here's another:

[ThrashJazzAssassin]

I live five minutes' walk from Bookbarn, the largest used book store in Britain: it's a series of massive warehouses, and there are a lot of weird obscure books in there somewhere. I might go back and see if I can get away with using my camera to record some of the more entertaining. Or I might just buy a few, purely for the amusing reaction when someone sees my bookshelf.

[Re'ozul]

can anyone translate the very first one?
Trying to read it i coul only come to the conclusion its about stuff thats bad for your heart. (it had toxic and cardio in there)

[AgentGray]

BTW? THis thread? I approve of it as strongly as humanly possible... Obscure hilarious books? Photographed and posted online? There... is going to be a lot more win if this keeps up

[empath]

It's an examination of a specific toxin from 'maquira calophylla' (plant? parasite? my biology sucks)

They are pretty good; uni libraries can be a riot in that you'll find the most obscure "I'll just do my doctorate on this weird-ass subtopic because then I'll know no one is writing (or has already written) on it." that then gets PUBLISHED.

I should take a stroll over to the QE2 library when I'm off - borrow my folks' digital camera, and come back with some good ones...what? I'm an alumnus.

[Mad Madam Mimm]

I live five minutes' walk from Bookbarn, the largest used book store in Britain...

You're gonna have to tell me where that is. I've spent £60
on books already.

[goat]

can anyone translate the very first one?
Trying to read it i coul only come to the conclusion its about stuff thats bad for your heart. (it had toxic and cardio in there)

Based on a little digging on wikipedia:

The referred organism is a type of tree in the same family as mulberry and fig, and it's subfamily includes the Panama rubber plant, so I'd expect that this tree is perhaps agriculturally important for natural rubber production. Cardenolides are basically a plant steroid that (and you were correct here) has heart arresting properties. Interesting, though, is that this cardenolide is "cytotoxic" which means literally toxic to cells. I don't know if this refers specifically to cardiac cells or if it just happens to be a cardenolide that is also toxic to other cells.

Another interesting note: the chemical that makes monarch butterflies toxic to predators is actually a cardenolide that the caterpillar ingests and stores when it is feeding on the toxic milkweed plant.

[Timelady]

That's...wow. Am I the only one who wants to read these now?

You know something scary though? I won't open any books in that library anymore. The first one I opened had a funny looking guy with really reflective sunglasses on the front, and that's it. Inside were pictures of penises, closed that book damn quick. That was in the photography section, in a completely different section (a whole floor different) I opened a random book...and its a picture of a naked old lady.
Never looking in a book in that library again.

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What library is this? A pornographic one?

@Mimm: Please, please tell me that total doesn't include uni textbooks. Otherwise I may have to swim the Atlantic.

[Master Gunner]

I've found some great deals on used textbooks over Chapters (as in, under $20, and in near-mint condition).

[TheRocket]

I DIBBS THE LAST ONE.

[VanHelsing23]

Yea! I've noticed, I've worked in a library for nearly two years. First a public one and now the university library. I think I'm going to post all the funny books I find if people want me too, and I invite others to post ones they find.

Please do.

[falthazar]

Zombie sex anyone?

but..is it necessary?


Next few updates are going to be only like one or two by the way, its really only luck that I see these books, and I only work 1 or 2 hrs a day.

[theDreamer]

...I want to read The Naked and the Undead.

I'm not a pervert! Just...curious...yes! Curious!

Don't judge me.

[Master Gunner]

I, too, would want to read that book.

[Jillers]

Wow... my college library only had hidden graphic novels.

ALSO! I'm interested in knowing what it is exactly that "How Porcupines Make Love" left out that warranted "How Porcupines Make Love II"

[falthazar]

Sadly, there is a reason I only post titles, not to ruin it or anything, but "How Porcupines Make Love" the series..there's three... Is actually "designed to make teachers aware of reader-response theory and its implications for literature instruction and curriculum."
And even some of the other ones (with an exception to "Clean asshole poems" NOO fucking clue what that's about) actually aren't that bad when you read the synopsis...but the titles are hilarious.

[Arius]

I just noticed...

That book says "How Porcupines Make Love II"

2!

Why would they need a sequel?

[Re'ozul]

The first one was the analysis on ho it works in social and biological context.
The second one is the kinky stuff.