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Bookman
Posts: 3308
Reply: 49
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Posted: December 20, 2007 1:17 PM |
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Woops. Copied and pasted without spellchecking. |
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Gak at work
Posts: 44
Reply: 50
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Posted: December 20, 2007 3:45 PM |
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No, I'm sorry thats Moops. |
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Jimmy
Posts: 4836
Reply: 51
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Posted: December 21, 2007 4:57 AM |
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I think that's the first post of yours that I've ever understood. |
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Bookman
Posts: 3308
Reply: 52
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Posted: December 21, 2007 10:37 AM |
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I enjoy understanding. |
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Gak at work
Posts: 44
Reply: 53
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Posted: December 21, 2007 2:23 PM |
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It's overrated. |
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Denim Vest
Posts: 1
Reply: 54
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Posted: December 22, 2007 11:47 AM |
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I'm Back Baby!!!
Its been over a year.
But I'm Back.
I see the same good for nothing losers are still here, which is good. |
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Mookie
Posts: 1433
Reply: 55
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Posted: December 22, 2007 12:52 PM |
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You're on that list... |
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riley
Posts: 206
Reply: 56
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Posted: December 22, 2007 1:12 PM |
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Welcome back Denim Vest, now fix me a drink |
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Jimmy
Posts: 4836
Reply: 57
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Posted: December 22, 2007 1:13 PM |
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Yama hama... |
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Bookman
Posts: 3308
Reply: 58
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Posted: December 26, 2007 11:45 AM |
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LATE LIBRARY BOOKS CAN TAKE TOLL ON CREDIT SCORES
By ANNE BARNARD and JO CRAVEN McGINTY
NEW YORK TIMESPublished: December 26, 2007
Librarians in Queens do not like to talk about the scofflaws who rack up fines for late books. They prefer to call them “clients” or “patrons” who owe “extended-use fees.” Competing against a tide of video games and cable shows, they are loath to scare away anyone who wants to read.
But their patience has limits. When provoked, they play hardball.
Eleven years ago, the Queens Library system, the largest in the nation by circulation, hired a professional enforcer to collect the 25-cents-a-day late fines as well as missing library materials from books to DVDs to rare musical scores.
The gambit has paid off handsomely. The haul so far: $11.4 million, about half of that in fines. That’s a lot of quarters.
Borrowers who fail to return Queens Library books can be reported to a collection agency and to a credit bureau, with a damaged credit rating as a result — a tactic that so shocked one Far Rockaway rabbi that he filed a lawsuit. The collection policy also has pulled libraries — places where generations of children have learned moral lessons about returning what they borrow — into the debate on just how much punishment is appropriate for failing to return a library book.
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At the New York Public Library, we don't call them "patrons" or "clients." Do you know what we call them? Criminals.
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Jimmy
Posts: 4836
Reply: 59
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Posted: December 26, 2007 3:50 PM |
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What's there to do in a library? Read? |
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Mookie
Posts: 1433
Reply: 60
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Posted: December 26, 2007 4:02 PM |
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Trying to save a quarter... |
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Curly
Posts: 599
Reply: 61
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Posted: December 27, 2007 5:34 AM |
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What do you do with all those books? |
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Jimmy
Posts: 4836
Reply: 62
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Posted: December 27, 2007 4:20 PM |
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What do you do? You don't do anything. |
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Bookman
Posts: 3308
Reply: 63
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Posted: December 27, 2007 4:56 PM |
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You think this is all a big joke, don't you? |
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Jimmy
Posts: 4836
Reply: 64
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Posted: December 27, 2007 8:35 PM |
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I'm just glad it's back.
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Jimmy
Posts: 4836
Reply: 65
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Posted: January 26, 2008 3:26 AM |
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DELETED CAREER
from "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" Jan 25, 2008
When Marie Lupe Cooley, from Jacksonville, saw a help wanted ad in her local paper describing her job, and listing her architect boss' home phone number, she wigged out! She went to the office, she erased everything they had put in their computer system for the last seven years. She did 2.5 million dollars worth of damage. Only one problem... the want ad had not been placed by her boss, but by her boss' wife... who wanted someone just like Miss Cooley to work at her company.
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Yep... and it didn't take very long either. |
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riley
Posts: 206
Reply: 66
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Posted: January 26, 2008 6:14 AM |
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She wigged out? I would loose that |
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Bookman
Posts: 3308
Reply: 67
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Posted: January 26, 2008 2:01 PM |
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Maybe she could do something in sports. |
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Todd Gak
Posts: 444
Reply: 68
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Posted: January 26, 2008 4:53 PM |
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She could be a talk show host. Her breasts are fabulous. |
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