How to open a new book

[AsahinaKimi]

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/06/how-to-open-a-new-bo.html


Maybe we should have someone post this at FREEPERville?

[Generic Brad]

1. Remove the word "new" and it would be perfect for them

[krispos42]

2. You'd have to modify the directions a bit

"First, pick up the end of the 3rd-row minivan seat, remove book from the floor, and place it on the milk-crate coffee table."

[jobycom]

3. Why would they need to learn to open a book? That would be like me learning to

polish my diamonds or sail my yacht. :shrug:

[Chan790]

4. No.

I lived with a pair of freeps. In one year, they both read all of the Conan The Barbarian stories, A Canticle for Liebowitz, and the entirety of the writings of Ayn Rand.

Nothing good comes from freeps reading.

[Dr Morbius]

5. I'm very fond of "A Canticle for Liebowitz".

I think it's an excellent science fiction novel.

[Chan790]

7. If you're not reading it as Catholic apologetic sci-fi.

They both took it as a mandate from God to become neo-luddites. I had to spend weeks listening to how i wasn't going to survive the second coming and the atom bomb while they got all survivalist. Then they started stockpiling the books they thought future generations would need...heavy on bibles, Rand, Boy Scout Manuals, etc. No Canticle for Lebowitz though.

[Book Lover]

6. Excuse me, but what exactly is wrong with A Canticle for Liebowitz?

and for that matter, what's wrong with the Conan stories? I can't remember exactly (cold medicine, bear with me), but Bob E Howard once put something along these lines in one of those stories, "It is only in civilized places that I have seen men starve while standing next to a storehouse full of grain."