[LM_NET] HUMOR: Weeding finds

[Kris Detmer <Kdetmer@COLUMBIA.K12.MO.US>]

This is my first year in this library, and in preparation for some new shelves and 
lots of re-arranging, I am weeding like mad.  So far, my two favorite weeds are:

_Think Metric_ by Franklyn M. Branley, copyright 1972
From the cover flap:  "Good-bye forever to miles, quarts, bushels, pounds, and 
tons!  Soon we too will measure things the way the rest of the world does--the easy 
way--in meters, liters, and grams."

Um, yeah.  37 years later and the U.S. still isn't quiiiiite there yet!

And the other one, _Self Defense for Girls_, by Bruce Tegner and Alice McGrath, 
copyright 1969
I was reading this one aloud to some of my female 8th and 9th grade library 
assistants and we were all alternately appalled and hysterically amused.  A 
favorite quote:
 "In this situation, the man is not trying to harm you, but is making unwelcome 
advances; take his wrist in a friendly fashion and then pull back on his little 
finger."  The accompanying photo shows the woman smiling charmingly at the man 
seated closely next to her and then in the next photo he's grimacing in pain as she 
sadistically yanks back on the specified finger.  Then there's the page showing 
five different ways to stomp on a man's instep, culminating with, "If the person is 
someone you do not wish to hurt, place your foot on his instep and stand on it 
without stamping.  You can do this in a good-humored way and get the desired 
result."  The photo shows the young woman, standing next to her male companion with 
her arm around his waist, smiling up at him flirtatiously as she mashes down on his 
foot with hers.

Mixed messages, anyone?  My only comfort with this last volume is that it hasn't 
been checked out in ages.  Yipes.

Kris

Kristina Detmer
Library Media Specialist
Jefferson Jr. High School
Columbia, Missouri, USA
kdetmer@columbia.k12.mo.us

When I get a little money, I buy books; and, if any is left, I buy food and 
clothes." 
~attributed to Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus 

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