New Librarian

Author: ZigFried
Date: 30-Nov-2006, 7:29 PM

Author: ZigFried
Time: 30-Nov-2006 7:29 PM
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My town's old Librarian is retiring. And she's being replaced by a man. I don't know a lot about him, except for his name:

Richard Williams

Can this be the man who conceived the Thief and the Cobbler? Who went through all that thick and thin only to lose it? And to end up as my town's librarian!?

I could be jolly well mistaken, but it would be so great if it were true. Something nice to tell OCP...

Author: C3PX
Time: 30-Nov-2006 8:03 PM
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Not too likely. Being as Richard and William are two very common first and last names. Great huh? It is like the guy has either two first names or two last names. Observe. Someone could have the name William Richards and somebody else could be names Richard Williams. Just by adding as 's' to the end of either name makes it a last name. You gotta love names like that! Of course it kind of sucks to have such a common names, but it sure is cool when others have them.

Oh, by the way, that would be really cool to have the Richard Williams as your librarian. If that were the case, and I were in your shoes, I would probably even spend more time at the library than I do now. Just talking to the wise old sage of a librarian and collecting as much of his wisdom as I can. Although from my experience, most librarians are lower to middle class, middle to elderly aged women without much wisdom to depart, so when I do go to the library it is usually just for the books. Hey, maybe even if your librarian is not the Richard Williams, he may still be a wise old man or at least somebody cool to talk to. That could be pretty cool too.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

Author: ZigFried
Time: 30-Nov-2006 8:11 PM
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Well, I do know some more info about this guy.

He's a retired principal from Downstate Michigan, and he has a beard, which the REAL Richard never had. BUT, he has a taste for arts and theater, so talk of the Thief might perk his interest.

Speaking of which, my library is starting to circulate DVDs (they begin Friday). I burned the Recobbled Cut and it will be the first of 2 DVDs the Library will circulate (the other is Grease). More titles will circulate in 3 weeks. Score one for OCP.

Author: Mike O
Time: 30-Nov-2006 11:44 PM
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If he is, see if he can get us some connections

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death