Run for your lives! The militant librarians are loose
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/national/nationalspecial3/11patriot.html?ex=1291957200&en=83e962417072e84b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
"While radical militant librarians kick us around, true terrorists benefit from OIPR's failure to let us use the tools given to us," read the e-mail message, which was sent by an unidentified F.B.I. official.
Oh, no, the militant librarians! Anything but that! :rolleyes:
Bodies Without Organs
11-12-2005, 12:31
Oh, no, the militant librarians! Anything but that! :rolleyes:
Militant librarians, hmm... but are they Anarchist Librarians (http://www.infoshop.org/alibrarians/public_html/)?
Militant librarians, hmm... but are they Anarchist Librarians (http://www.infoshop.org/alibrarians/public_html/)?
No. Militancy requires some degree of order and discipline. Anarchy is all, errr, anarchic.
Bodies Without Organs
11-12-2005, 13:03
No. Militancy requires some degree of order and discipline. Anarchy is all, errr, anarchic.
You seem to have missed the point of the whole anarchist malarky: it is opposed to neither order nor discipline.
You seem to have missed the point of the whole anarchist malarky: it is opposed to neither order nor discipline.
Their is name quite the misnomer, then. Next you're gonna tell me they're not librarians?
The Similized world
11-12-2005, 13:17
Their is name quite the misnomer, then. Next you're gonna tell me they're not librarians?
Uhm.. Perhaps anarchists are against authority.. Just a thought.
Uhm.. Perhaps anarchists are against authority.. Just a thought.
What does militancy thrive on if not authority? One of anarchism's meanings is "absence of order." A better name for them, in order (pardon the pun) to avoid ambiguity, would be "anti-authoritarian librarians" if they still like to like order. Doesn't quite have the same ring or minuscule shock-value as the former, though.
Kossackja
11-12-2005, 13:34
They are probably lead by Conan the Librarian.
They are probably lead by Conan the Librarian.
And I just excused my pun.
The Similized world
11-12-2005, 13:41
What does militancy thrive on if not authority? One of anarchism's meanings is "absence of order." A better name for them, in order (pardon the pun) to avoid ambiguity, would be "anti-authoritarian librarians" if they still like to like order. Doesn't quite have the same ring or minuscule shock-value as the former, though.
I know that it's just a fancy word for chaos for most people, but I've never heard an anarchist who defined it that way. By the way, I'm fairly sure it only (per dictionary) means absence of political order.. Which is just a fancy way of saying absence of authority.
I know that it's just a fancy word for chaos for most people, but I've never heard an anarchist who defined it that way. By the way, I'm fairly sure it only (per dictionary) means absence of political order.. Which is just a fancy way of saying absence of authority.
"b : absence of order : DISORDER <not manicured plots but a wild anarchy of nature -- Israel Shenker>"
Zero Six Three
11-12-2005, 13:51
From the anarchist faq; "The word "anarchy" is from the Greek, prefix an (or a), meaning "not," "the want of," "the absence of," or "the lack of", plus archos, meaning "a ruler," "director", "chief," "person in charge," or "authority." Or, as Peter Kropotkin put it, Anarchy comes from the Greek words meaning "contrary to authority."
It's also known as Libertarian Socialism.
Non Aligned States
11-12-2005, 15:05
Oh, no, the militant librarians! Anything but that! :rolleyes:
I wonder what they use as weapons? Razor sharp throwing library cards? Bludgeon you with the Oxford Dictionary? Strangle you with rolled up wastepaper? Who are these mysterious militant librarians? Ninjas? :p
Lunatic Goofballs
11-12-2005, 15:06
I wonder what they use as weapons? Razor sharp throwing library cards? Bludgeon you with the Oxford Dictionary? Strangle you with rolled up wastepaper? Who are these mysterious militant librarians? Ninjas? :p
They work in silence. *nods knowingly.*
Non Aligned States
11-12-2005, 15:07
They work in silence. *nods knowingly.*
You're one of them aren't you? *points accusing finger* The mysterious ninja librarian in a hotdog suit.
Lunatic Goofballs
11-12-2005, 15:08
You're one of them aren't you? *points accusing finger* The mysterious ninja librarian in a hotdog suit.
Are you suggesting that Clowns and Librarians have a secret alliance?!?
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Poppycock. :D
Zero Six Three
11-12-2005, 15:22
Are you suggesting that Clowns and Librarians have a secret alliance?!?
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Poppycock. :D
oh I don't know.. what about the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army? Do you deny your involvement?
http://www.clownarmy.org
Lunatic Goofballs
11-12-2005, 15:33
oh I don't know.. what about the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army? Do you deny your involvement?
http://www.clownarmy.org
CIRCA? MOI?!?
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Poppycock. http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/traurig/sad-smiley-024.gif
Kinda Sensible people
12-12-2005, 02:20
Militant librarians, hmm... but are they Anarchist Librarians (http://www.infoshop.org/alibrarians/public_html/)?
The Anarchist Librarians are nothing to scoff at! They are a threat to the way of the public library! They have shattered the natural order of things and insist on mixing fiction and non-fiction in a chaotic lack of authoritarian rulership by the Man (Read: The Dewey Decimal System).
Just remember the next time you spend an hour somewhere in between 252.3143545655765675786576 and 252.4345463464653745334 looking for a book analyzing "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God" and finally find it around 126.12453224234363643346 by a book on Existentialism that you can thank the Anarchaic Librarians for your suffering!
Ashmoria
12-12-2005, 02:26
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/national/nationalspecial3/11patriot.html?ex=1291957200&en=83e962417072e84b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
"While radical militant librarians kick us around, true terrorists benefit from OIPR's failure to let us use the tools given to us," read the e-mail message, which was sent by an unidentified F.B.I. official.
Oh, no, the militant librarians! Anything but that! :rolleyes:
those fucking librarians SHUSHING the fbi!
The Black Forrest
12-12-2005, 02:31
I can see it now!
"Have you ever been a member of the Radical Militant Librarians?"
I am going to have to turn in my mother-in-law. She was a school librarian! To think that marm look was just a disguise!
Fass: you actually soil your mind by reading american news? :p
Zexaland
12-12-2005, 02:39
*looks at thread title*
This music (http://content.ytmnd.com/content/1/2/1243f3648c5818fc62bbe1d85b2d1ee6.mp3) fits the tone prefectly.;)
Fass: you actually soil your mind by reading american news? :p
I try to read news from as many countries as possible, and if I can get through news from the US, French news doesn't seem quite so myopic anymore.
I try to read news from as many countries as possible, and if I can get through news from the US, French news doesn't seem quite so myopic anymore.
ouch.
and: word of the day.
ouch.
and: word of the day.
I'm cheaper than a calendar.
plus, you come with a free pronounciation guide in a to-die-for voice. what more can a lady wish for.
The Similized world
12-12-2005, 13:32
I'm cheaper than a calendar.
Perhaps, but I don't see any pictures of you dressed up as a fireman pouring oil down your chest.
YEs that was a hint.
plus, you come with a free pronounciation guide in a to-die-for voice. what more can a lady wish for.
Other ladies, I suppose.
Perhaps, but I don't see any pictures of you dressed up as a fireman pouring oil down your chest.
YEs that was a hint.
Not that I don't have pics like that - a manly chest like my own was just screaming for it - but you'll just have to curse my Internet anonymity.
The Similized world
12-12-2005, 13:57
Not that I don't have pics like that - a manly chest like my own was just screaming for it - but you'll just have to curse my Internet anonymity.
Oh Arse.. Or Oh NO arse..
How about TGing me? I need something to drool over. I broke my foot, so I'm confined to apartment boredom. Have pitty on me :(
Oh Arse.. Or Oh NO arse..
How about TGing me? I need something to drool over. I broke my foot, so I'm confined to apartment boredom. Have pitty on me :(
Mama taught me one thing, and that was to keep stuff like that off teh Internets, sorry.
UpwardThrust
12-12-2005, 15:50
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/national/nationalspecial3/11patriot.html?ex=1291957200&en=83e962417072e84b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
"While radical militant librarians kick us around, true terrorists benefit from OIPR's failure to let us use the tools given to us," read the e-mail message, which was sent by an unidentified F.B.I. official.
Oh, no, the militant librarians! Anything but that! :rolleyes:
*growls like godzilla* feer me!
Non Aligned States
12-12-2005, 16:35
*growls like godzilla* feer me!
Is that fear you or feed you? I'll assume the latter. Here. Have a banana.
UpwardThrust
12-12-2005, 16:36
Is that fear you or feed you? I'll assume the latter. Here. Have a banana.
Both *eats banana*
The Similized world
12-12-2005, 17:34
Mama taught me one thing, and that was to keep stuff like that off teh Internets, sorry.... But I'm so trustworthy :(
... But I'm so trustworthy :(
It's just that the people who read your blog aren't.
The Similized world
12-12-2005, 19:17
It's just that the people who read your blog aren't.
Heh, I don't have one, but alright. I say the same if I were you :)
Heh, I don't have one, but alright. I say the same if I were you :)
Sure you don't...
Non Aligned States
13-12-2005, 03:27
Both *eats banana*
Ha ha! It was my exploding banana. Now no one need fear you. Or what's left of you. :p