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1. how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 15:19:10 -0500; i called up my local library (akron is actually rather big) asked them if they had any videos on TIG welding.(yeah we bought one) the guy said ..(a little snooty) oh no we wouldnt want to carry video; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00388.html (7,610 bytes)
2. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:27:02 -0600; Oh, I don't know. I deal with the general public everyday and you wouldn't believe how stupid seemingly intelligent people are when it comes to basic mechanical common sense. I can see why the librar; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00407.html (7,037 bytes)
3. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 07:44:08 -0500; I agree w/Robert, it IS absurd, GoodBye! If welding is so dangerous, sale of welders should be regulated, not learning to use one properly. "Well, sir, we we think it's better if you use that $49 wel; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00408.html (7,972 bytes)
4. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:01:06 EST; Re: agreeing that libraries might wish to CYA... I suppose then, they ought to ban books on guns/cars/horses/electronics as well as cooking (wouldn't want someone burning down the house...); /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00409.html (7,141 bytes)
5. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 07:42:37 -0600 FILETIME=[BCBD3460:01C16924]; It seems to me that libraries would be in the business of informing us, not in trying to protect us from ourselves. Mike K.; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00411.html (7,482 bytes)
6. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 07:21:57 -0600 (CST); Hey, don't blame the libraries. The stupidity is in our incresingly litigious and irresponsible society. (Do something stupid and hurt yourself? Go find someone else to blame and sue them!) A univers; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00412.html (8,018 bytes)
7. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:27:43 -0500; O.M.G.!!!! there goes all the books on motor sports! imagine how dangerous it could be if some dummy read a book about racing and tried that ! oh the horrors! lol! let alone anatomy books! chuck alch; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00413.html (8,041 bytes)
8. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 07:52:09 -0600 (CST); I seem to recall reading a "dystopian" sci-fi novel that had that sort of scenario as its background. tried that; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00414.html (7,863 bytes)
9. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 07:48:46 -0600 (CST); That's just it. They're >>not<< trying to protect you from yourself, they're trying to protect themselves from being sued out of existence by some doofus with no brains, a sharp lawyer, and an idiot; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00415.html (7,945 bytes)
10. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:14:38 EST; - - - - - - - - - - - Are you starting a movement!!! Next thing, you'll want them to take the directions for making a nuclear bomb off the Internet! Allen Hefner SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward '77; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00418.html (7,747 bytes)
11. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:14:33 EST; - - - - - - - - - - - - That's a RIOT!!! Did he use his best hairdresser's voice? (Disclaimer - I did not mean to offend any librarians or hairdressers on the list. It was a joke. Like the actor who; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00419.html (8,439 bytes)
12. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:15:54 EST; Heck, I just bought some new blades for the Sawzall, anybody need an apondectomey, vasectomy, or circumcision? You'll have to travel close enough for my extension cord to reach. Robert Houston Santa; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00424.html (8,719 bytes)
13. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 12:31:27 -0600; It seems to me that libraries would be in the business of informing us, not in trying to protect us from ourselves. Go check out "The Anarchists Cookbook", loads of good information there!!! "They sa; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00432.html (7,998 bytes)
14. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 12:37:01 -0600; I DO!! I DO!! Just Me, maybe................; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00433.html (7,727 bytes)
15. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:47:25 EST; You didn't specify, so I assume you want the three in one special. $19.95! For $49.95 you can get the special plumbers snake, no scars to show, deal! Robert Houston Santa Teresa, NM '74 Midget 63 TR4; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00441.html (8,596 bytes)
16. Re: how absurd (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 19:36:31 -0600; That is the point I was trying to make. This week we have been threatened with another law suit. It seems one of our guys sold some friction modifier for a traction-lock axle to a guy who, with his s; /html/spridgets/2001-11/msg00447.html (8,132 bytes)

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