Lost in translation?

(Our new official BMCC Library poster)

Last week a colleague sent me this joke in an email:

A bloke walks into a Glasgow library and says to the prim librarian,
'Excuse me Miss, dey ye hiv ony books on suicide?'
To which she stops doing her tasks,
looks at him over the top of her glasses and says,
'F**k off, ye'll no bring it back!'

I'd seen it several times before so read it, smirked (again) and deleted it.

Said colleague has just been in to my office to ask me what the joke was about. They said they'd been trying to work it out for days.

Was it the Scots she was having trouble with and I was the only one able to translate? No. It was the rudeness of the librarian's answer! That was inexplicable - not like a Blue Mountains City Library staff member at all!!!!!

E-book myths exploded

Thank to

Early Wordfor this one.

More from Helene Blowers, Library 2.0 guru

More fun from Helene. Try this little quiz and have your name converted to a class listed in the Dewey Decimal System. Here's me:

Heidi's Dewey Decimal Section:

908 Kinds of persons treatment

Heidi = 85949 = 859+49 = 908


Class:
900 History & Geography


Contains:
Travel, biographies, ancient history, and histories of continents.



What it says about you:
You're connected to your past and value the things that have happened to you. You've had some conflicted times in your life, but they've brought you to where you are today and you don't ignore it.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

Top yummy stuff

I fell across a reference to this site, Popacular, in one of the blogs in my blogfeeder - it lists the top bookmarks in delicious by hour, last 8 hours, etc. My sidekick is already tucking in to Podcasts by the University of Oxford (#1 in the last hour) . . . won't get any sense out of her all day now.

Here are a couple of gems I found :

The Eyeballing Game. How's your visual accuracy?

How to tell if your cat is trying to kill you - take the 2 minute quiz

36 Cool Custom Error 404 Pages