Comments on: No Accident http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/ JFK: ''we choose to go to the ...'' Mon, 21 May 2012 14:02:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Andie http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11311 Andie Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:40:40 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11311 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 <i>themselves</i> through windows. 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.

]]> By: Jeff S. http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11285 Jeff S. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:17:34 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11285 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. 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.

]]> By: pepperjackcandy http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11220 pepperjackcandy Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:45:38 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11220 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? 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?

]]> By: Frank http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11183 Frank Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:32:38 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11183 Hate Crime I think it's a CRT (monitor). I find I read more on line than in print anymore - new and literature. Hate Crime
I think it’s a CRT (monitor). I find I read more on line than in print anymore - new and literature.

]]> By: Axis of Peter http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11145 Axis of Peter Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:42:54 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11145 I'd put this in the LOL category. I’d put this in the LOL category.

]]> By: Eric L http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11127 Eric L Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:03:50 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11127 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. 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.

]]> By: Lihtox http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11123 Lihtox Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:18:24 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/1519/#comment-11123 Television is the archenemy of libraries. Television is the archenemy of libraries.

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