If you’re the one who was reading Douglas Adams’ The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide in early September of last year, and stopped halfway through, and forgot you were using your ticket to The Flaming Lips at the Pageant on September 17th 2010 as a bookmark, and still want it as a souvenir, I have it. (At least until I take out the garbage.)
I have to say, it made a nice change from the blood stains, squashed flies, and used grocery lists that I more usually find in library books.
How do you know it was unused?
It was in perfect shape, clean and crisp, just as it came off the printer. (Stubs still on too, but I know they mostly just scan nowadays.) I’m assuming that nobody gets through a concert at the Pageant with the ticket remaining in uncirculated condition. And the last due date on the book is September 10th.
Could be wrong. I doubt it.
This is a true test of the power of the Dope.
-D/a
Go to the library and find out who that person was. If it’s a guy, I want to marry him.
I can honestly say it wasn’t me. The Flaming Lips?
Alas, it can’t be a souvenir if he didn’t get to the show.
I had some friends at that concert, my friend met Wayne Coyne and was ecstatic. It was probably sold out too.
Perhaps not a souvenir of the show itself, but it has a story all the same. Not necessarily a good story, mind you…
How does one use blood or squashed flies as book marks?
Blood just goes on the edge of the page. Harder to do with deckle edges. With a good-sized fly placed near an edge, he humps a little space open, so you can thumb the book open at that spot.
How do you know the last due date on the book? Does your library still stamp it on the book? I thought everyone used computers these days; even our fairly small town library checks out via computer, and I kinda miss knowing the last time a book was checked out.
I work at a library and the things that folks use for bookmarks are always surprising. Everything from little pieces of Kleenex (eww people, if this is you, please don’t!) to bank/creditcard statements, love letters, appointment reminder cards to medical procedures…etc. Today I found a one dollar bill. I took it out and put it in our donation box. I could have bought a coffee with it, but chose not to.
I have heard of a library book that was returned with a kippered herring as a book-marker. I have also once found a butterfly inside a book. This was in the 80s and it had probably been there ever since the book was new sometime around 1920, so I carefully put it back again when I was finished with the book.
I was going to reply here, but I think we are drifting from Frank’s topic. I will start a new thread.
Yeah, some of the city libraries still do, even though they scan it for check out. And some don’t. Go figure. The county library doesn’t stamp at all anymore, and I usually can use the stamp or lack of stamp to figure out which library it needs to go back to. 
I don’t really pay attention to this thing or go to many concerts/events, but don’t they sometimes just grab it, scan the barcode, and hand it back. Then that serial number is in the system as “used.”
That’s what he’s saying though; it’s in such good condition that it may not have even been scanned. Concert tickets usually get jammed in pockets or bags.
I don’t know – I have a ticket from a pop concert I went to in May that was just scanned and handed back to me. It’s still in perfect shape. I use it as a bookmark now.