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    Wacky Assemblyman Denounces Library, For Some Reason

    Small-Town Wisconsin Has Its Own Blog Wars, Thank You Very Much

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    Image of ChillbearLatrigue ChillbearLatrigue
    07/14/09

    In reply to Wacky Assemblyman Denounces Library, For Some Reason
    I knew that this could happen. Someone is always slipping pornography into my computer.
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    07/14/09

    In reply to Wacky Assemblyman Denounces Library, For Some Reason
    Wait 'til the kiddies get an eyeful of Thomas the Tank Engine backing it up for Percy. Sir Topham Bottom has a darling cameo role.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    07/14/09

    In reply to Wacky Assemblyman Denounces Library, For Some Reason
    Dov Hikind, LOLmaker.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    07/14/09

    In reply to Wacky Assemblyman Denounces Library, For Some Reason
    All you need to know about the current Mike Myers demographic: A Brooklyn grandma checked out one of his movies, on VHS, from a library.
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    07/14/09

    @MrInBetween: Excuse me? Where did my star go?
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/14/09

    @MrInBetween: There's hope for me yet.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    07/14/09

    In reply to Wacky Assemblyman Denounces Library, For Some Reason
    Wait until I start slipping clips of Bang Bus episodes into Little Genius DVD's.

    The parents will thank me for it.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    07/14/09

    @resipsaloquacious: So there really is a magic schoolbus?
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    07/14/09

    In reply to Wacky Assemblyman Denounces Library, For Some Reason
    Thank you for reminding me why I'd rather pay for NetFlix than rent movies for free from the 'berry. Austin Powers is soooooo twelve years ago.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/14/09

    @misslinda: And so are VHS tapes. I assumed most libraries had gone to DVD.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    07/14/09

    @CaptainFantastic: I assumed it was actually a DVD. The olds are always a few clicks behind with the technology lingo.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    07/14/09

    In reply to Wacky Assemblyman Denounces Library, For Some Reason
    OK, Dovie...we need to have a little talk. You're kind of giving Jews a bad name. And we already have some bad names. (Shlomo? Moishie? Yossi? Have some pity.) I don't know if you know, but not everyone likes us. You know what makes it worse? When you run your mouth off like an idiot, while wearing a kippah, no less.



    Here are the possible options in response to your outburst:



    1. Library staff can start watching every single video when it's returned to prevent recurrence of such incidents, leaving them no time to actually, you know, reshelve books and stuff.

    2. Libraries can stop carrying videos.

    3. You can be completely ignored.



    Which of those three were you going for, Motek?
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    07/14/09

    In reply to Wacky Assemblyman Denounces Library, For Some Reason
    For the record, I have yet to see a pornographic video that I find more tasteless than Austin Powers in Goldmember, so I am not swayed by his argument.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    07/14/09

    @Colonel Mustard: Ugh, so true. But even if it was the original, how much more grossed out could grandma have been over porn than over a fur-covered Mike Myers and fembots with poison gas nipples? I'm guessing the only way she could tell the movie had changed was by the lack of body hair.
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    07/14/09

    In reply to Wacky Assemblyman Denounces Library, For Some Reason
    I'm pretty sure this guy's on the take from the Bloomberg campaign, to provide the public with an idea of what sort of alternative city politicians exist out there in the wilds of the outer boroughs.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    06/16/09

    In reply to Small-Town Wisconsin Has Its Own Blog Wars, Thank You Very Much
    So what is appropriate reading matter for adolescents?


    Whatever they choose.

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    06/16/09

    In reply to Small-Town Wisconsin Has Its Own Blog Wars, Thank You Very Much
    Also, I think this crazy lady's dream is to have national attention, and eventually be swept up into the arms of Sean Hannity and Co. Way to enable, Gawker!
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    06/16/09

    In reply to Small-Town Wisconsin Has Its Own Blog Wars, Thank You Very Much
    Ah, The Bend. I attended high school there. Thanks for reminding me, Richard. Now I need my second gin and tonic of the morning. Ya der hey der once!
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    Image of Ascender Ascender
    06/16/09

    In reply to Small-Town Wisconsin Has Its Own Blog Wars, Thank You Very Much
    Holy shit. I am a proud graduate of West Bend West High School (the other half of that picture...fuck the Suns) and the son of the Library Board President for West Bend. This raging local squabble has consumed my phone calls home for the last two months...seeing it on here is like some weird media warp into my inquiries as to the home front.


    And while the locals are using the internets to get in each others proverbial faces...just try reading that on the online version of the local rag, The West Bend Daily News, which has online content for newspaper subscribers only. NYTimes take note! If it can work in small town Wisconsin, it can work for you!

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    06/16/09

    @Ascender: Screw you, Spartan! :)
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    06/16/09

    In reply to Small-Town Wisconsin Has Its Own Blog Wars, Thank You Very Much
    But being the friendly midwest, every posting and reply ends with a recipe that involves cheese and make 30 servings for the church potluck.
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    06/16/09

    In reply to Small-Town Wisconsin Has Its Own Blog Wars, Thank You Very Much
    Look how far the Poles have come! They used to have trouble screwing in lightbulbs, but now they're picking on queers like regular Americans and pretending to read! I'm choking up here.
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    06/16/09

    @heartbreakturnip: This is a very funny comment.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    06/16/09

    @heartbreakturnip: Is it okay to fight homophobia with racist humor, so long as it’s against whites? ’Cause I laughed at your comment, and I want to try it too.
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    Image of valet_of_the_dolls valet_of_the_dolls
    06/16/09

    @iplaudius: It's not racist if they're white, which is why I've always considered the Swiss fair game.
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