DebraDebra - LiveJournal.comquickie break from research and found...- September 18, 2006 Patron: "I am looking for a globe of the earth."Librarian: "We have a table-top model over here."Patron: "No, that's not good enough. Don't you have a life-size"Librarian: (pause) "Yes, but it's in use right now."http://dfiresto.livejournal.com/132075.html Don't mean to offend, but to funny...- September 15, 2006 THINKINGIt started out innocently enough. I began to think at cocktail parties. Now and then -- just to loosen up. Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker.I began to think alone -- "to relax," I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true. Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time.That was when things began to sour at home. One evening I turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of..http://dfiresto.livejournal.com/131711.html Stephen King, John Irving and J.K. Rowling- September 13, 2006 Reading my list serve for school librarians and saw this post. Thought some of you would be interested. It's about an event in NY where Stephen King, John Irving and JK Rowling spoke. I couldn't attend. Hi 'netters -I just wanted to share some of the info that JK Rowling mentioned this past Wed. nite at the event at Radio City in NYC. Many thanks to all who passed along some helpful advice before we arrived.First of all, it was a wonderful event & the setting was terrific (Radio City is a...http://dfiresto.livejournal.com/131480.html Steve Irwin- September 4, 2006 I still can't believe he is dead. He seemed to be invincible. It's like someone who parachuted 100 times safely and then slipped off their chair and cracked their skull leading to death. Many people get injured from a sting ray's venomous barbed tail, but few actually die from it. Somehow the tail went under his rib cage and pierced his heart.Some people considered him a loon; however, I think he acted that way to get more attention paid to environmental causes. He was a staunch fighter...http://dfiresto.livejournal.com/131093.html Wierd- September 4, 2006 Yesterday Brad and I spent the day in NYC walking around Central Park. We were walking to dinner, only a few blocks from the park when an African American woman with gray hair was passing us. I was a step or two behind Brad due to the fact the sidewalk was crowded and I had to move sideways to avoid someone at that point. She didnt acknowledge Brad at all, but as she passed me, she took her closed umbrella (it had been pouring the day before and it was now clouding up) and pushed the end...http://dfiresto.livejournal.com/130947.html |