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Reference Question of the Week - 6/6/10
June 12th, 2010 Brian Herzog
A middle-aged male patron approached me while I was at the desk alone and asked,
Do you know any good jokes?
In fact I do, so I told him my current favorite:
A duck walks into a bar wearing one shoe. The bartender says, “Hey duck, you lost a shoe.” And the duck says, “Nope, I found one.”
Awesome. Anyway, he said he liked it, but he wanted a lot of jokes. I showed him where our humor section* was, and he said he’d look around.
A little while later, he came back up to the desk and said he wanted jokes delivered by text message to his phone. We started searching the internet for “jokes by text” and “joke of the day” and found a ton of jokes people could retype and send out as text messages. There were also lots of jokes by email, and other joke sites, but most looked kind of sketchy.
Then we found Comedy Central’s jokes.com. It offers signups for a joke of the day by both email and text, and they seem reputable enough to trust. The text messages were not free, and when he saw that he kind of gave up on the idea.
Before he left, he asked if I knew any other good jokes, so I told him my all-time favorite:
A hotdog walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender says, “Sorry, we don’t serve food.”
Ah, the many required skills of a librarian.
I found this blog by searching on blogsearch.google.com for "reference librarian".
I enjoy this blog because not only is it amusing, but it is informational as well.
The entry above is from a librarian's typical day and as I aspire to be a reference librarian I look forward to moments like this when I can not only be helpful to my patrons, but humorous as well.
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