# If you're gonna mark in the fucking library book, at least get it right dammit. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-gonna-mark-in-the-fucking-library-book-at-least-get-it-right-dammit/158415 "2003-03-01T17:48:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-gonna-mark-in-the-fucking-library-book-at-least-get-it-right-dammit/158415/42 "2003-03-06T01:09:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BioHazard \* > \*\*Here’s an interesting side note. I lived in a small town in the bible belt for a while when I was was young. I checked out some photography books and discovered that every single nude (or even close to nude) picture were very neatly sliced out. \ I took one of the books up to the head library to tell her it was damaged and I found out that she was the one that did it because they were “obscene”, and she also said that she edits all books that come in. \ \*\* Un-freakin-believable. I really hate this kind of crap. I’m a lover of well-used books, too. My faves are all properly worn in, usually with a couple of wavy pages from a dip in the bathtub where I was reading them.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Payne\_N.Diaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Payne\_N.Diaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payne_N.Diaz)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-gonna-mark-in-the-fucking-library-book-at-least-get-it-right-dammit/158415/43 "2003-03-06T02:45:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lurkernomore \* > \*\* > {Geek reference} > Really piss them off - write “I found this really elegant proof, but don’t have room in this margin” > {/Geek reference} > > Keeps them guessing for centuries! \*\* I assume you’re talking about Fermat, and his wonderful theorem? ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-gonna-mark-in-the-fucking-library-book-at-least-get-it-right-dammit/158415/44 "2003-03-06T03:17:10Z")
Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-gonna-mark-in-the-fucking-library-book-at-least-get-it-right-dammit/158415/45 "2003-03-06T03:28:18Z")
AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGG!!! What is it with bible thumpers and books? I’m just waiting for one of them to request permantly gluing bible verses to the inside of peoples eyelids ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-gonna-mark-in-the-fucking-library-book-at-least-get-it-right-dammit/158415/46 "2003-03-06T13:39:09Z")
Wasn’t Conan the Librarian in UHF? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-gonna-mark-in-the-fucking-library-book-at-least-get-it-right-dammit/158415/47 "2003-03-06T15:04:09Z")
Yes, **Barbarian** , he certainly was. Damn funny, too. “Uh, this book is a little bit overdue…” “YAAARRRRGGHGHHH!!!” {splits teenager in two with big hacking sword} ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-gonna-mark-in-the-fucking-library-book-at-least-get-it-right-dammit/158415/48 "2003-03-06T19:01:44Z")
**BioHazard** = you really shouldn’t come here. There are special employees at the airport to go through all magazines and newspapers brought in by visitors, and they tear out whole pages or scrub out cleavages etc with a big black marker. Even in the local newspaper the other day, they had black-texta’d out the breasts on some Grand Master ancient painting featured in some story about an art exhibition. The funniest of all was in a friend’s magazine which had an article on “Celebrities letting Slip” or some such bollox with a photo feature of celebrities accidently showing nipples, or butt crack, etc. Most of the blacking out was unsurprising… except for the big black rectangle across **Robbie Williams’s** chest. Now I realise the guy may have been a bit out of shape and had man-baps, but really 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-gonna-mark-in-the-fucking-library-book-at-least-get-it-right-dammit/158415.md?page=2)