Category Archives: Humour

No Wonder They Don’t Get It!

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March 21, 2013 · 6:00 am

Only if it Works

Incidental Comics

by Grant Snider, who (with tongue firmly planted in cheek, I’m sure) doesn’t  “advocate drug use – unless it leads to great works of literature”.

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Libraries vs Google: Libraries Win This One

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Zits

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‘No Thank-you!’, she exclaimed, trying to hide the horror

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For the librarian who’s tough – you got a problem?

Harry Potter Ministry of Magic Toilet Loo Potty Decal Sticker $12.00 USD

For the librarian who’s very dedicated to Harry Potter

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For the librarian who has a collecting problem.

Click on any of the images to see EVEN MORE at the
2012 Librarian Lump of Coal Gift Guide

and another – slightly more tasteful collection at
Ten Awesome Gifts for Librarians

Books are one thing, but stuff is another.
Maybe I’m showing my age but please, no more stuff for me.

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Friday Funny: on Amazing Books

Arctic Circle

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Friday Funny: Hamlet’s Duplex

“Robert Mankoff sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1977, and has been the cartoon editor at The New Yorker since 1997. He is the author of The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity and the editor of the best-selling Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker. Mankoff lives in Hastings, New York with his wife and daughter.”

From Condé Nast where you can by a 12′x9′ print for us$125

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The Giving Tree as Mother

Click for The Giving Tree on Goodreads

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Grant Snider’s Literary Devices

Incidental Comics

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Friday Funny: How a Book is Born

 

From WeldenOwen where the author introduces this infographic as a “roughly 74 percent accurate story of how an idea churns through the publishing process just like—as a publisher we once knew put it—a rat travels through an anaconda.”

Via The Centered Librarian

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Friday Funny – Text-Spelling

I’d like to credit the cartoonist but I can’t find the original. Here is where I found it where the blog author points out that the student just needs the right reading strategy.

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