No Accident

Cidu Bill on Nov 17th 2008

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Something to do with the traditional “throw a brick through the window” thing. I guess.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Brevity, Guy & Rodd, comic strips, comics, humor, libraries, television | 7 responses so far

7 Responses to “No Accident”

  1. Lihtox Nov 17th 2008 at 12:18 am 1

    Television is the archenemy of libraries.

  2. Eric L Nov 17th 2008 at 03:03 am 2

    Plus she feels the need to state that having a TV thrown through the library window was “no accident” as if there was a way to have someone accidently throw a TV through a window.

  3. Axis of Peter Nov 17th 2008 at 01:42 pm 3

    I’d put this in the LOL category.

  4. Frank Nov 17th 2008 at 07:32 pm 4

    Hate Crime
    I think it’s a CRT (monitor). I find I read more on line than in print anymore - new and literature.

  5. pepperjackcandy Nov 18th 2008 at 10:45 am 5

    As the daughter of a retired public librarian, I thought it was a comment on the vandalism that so many public libraries face. Someone once put a dead fish in the bookdrop at my mom’s library. They estimate it was put there on Saturday night, and this was back when the library was closed on Sundays.

    Yeah. Not pretty.

    Why a television?

    Because a television is funnier/more absurd than a rock?

  6. Jeff S. Nov 19th 2008 at 01:17 pm 6

    You see all the reading shows, and the “Reading Is Fundamental” and “Read a Book” commericals on TV, so the TV is ‘getting even’. Kinda like a “Watch TV” in a library.

  7. Andie Nov 19th 2008 at 11:40 pm 7

    Your friendly neighborhood librarian here to explain –

    Since TV is a huge consumer of leisure time that might otherwise be spent reading “quality literature,” the stereotypical librarian (pretty much the only sort that ever appears in comics) believes that books=good and TV=bad. Therefore, TV is the enemy of books.

    Although most libraries today are supposed to be about providing information and entertainment in a wide variety of media, including video/DVD/downloadable video/etc., many libraries still go in big for things like National TV Turn-Off Week.

    So it stands to reason that television might want to shut down the libraries. Though I think the joke would have worked better somehow if the thrown object were a remote control or something — after all, generally, vandals don’t hurl themselves through windows.

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