# Time for another trip to the Universal Library. Can I bring you hosers anything?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-trip-to-the-universal-library-can-i-bring-you-hosers-anything/710624>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 22, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-trip-to-the-universal-library-can-i-bring-you-hosers-anything/710624 "2015-01-22T21:45:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-trip-to-the-universal-library-can-i-bring-you-hosers-anything/710624/41 "2015-01-27T16:16:01Z")

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The Further Adventures of Calvin and Hobbes

more Cul-de-sac comics  
the other books about Middle Earth that Tolkien wrote in the style of LOTR (not the style of the Silmarillion) - you know, the ones that detail the adventures of the other wizards, the fall of the North and the rise of the Witch-King, the tales of the Eastern and Southern lands, what Aragorn’s kids were up to along with the offspring of Eomer, Faramir, and various hobbits.  
that’s all for this trip - thanks Skald

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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-trip-to-the-universal-library-can-i-bring-you-hosers-anything/710624/42 "2015-01-27T16:39:29Z")

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> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#):
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> The Further Adventures of Calvin and Hobbes
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> more Cul-de-sac comics  
> the other books about Middle Earth that Tolkien wrote in the style of LOTR (not the style of the Silmarillion) - you know, the ones that detail the adventures of the other wizards, the fall of the North and the rise of the Witch-King, the tales of the Eastern and Southern lands, what Aragorn’s kids were up to along with the offspring of Eomer, Faramir, and various hobbits.  
> that’s all for this trip - thanks Skald

You don’t want 1 or 3. Both Watterson & the Greater Perfesser saw the subcreative exhaustion coming and knew when to stop.

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**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-trip-to-the-universal-library-can-i-bring-you-hosers-anything/710624/43 "2015-01-27T16:42:36Z")

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dang it Skald, you’re right. but why are you injecting reality into my fantasy

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-trip-to-the-universal-library-can-i-bring-you-hosers-anything/710624/44 "2015-01-27T22:15:44Z")

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I’d like the concluding two volumes of Robert Anton Wilson’s [Historical Illuminatus Chronicles,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Historical_Illuminatus_Chronicles) the edition of the collected Sherlock Holmes stories that includes the one about the giant Sumatran rat, and a DVD of _Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League._

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-trip-to-the-universal-library-can-i-bring-you-hosers-anything/710624/45 "2015-01-28T02:48:54Z")

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> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> You would know this if you had taken my Evil Seminar. Your refusal to do so is why your plans to destroy Nebraska always fail.

No, it’s because I aim for Kansas and some buzzkill in blue tights and a cape keeps interfering.

Fine. Find me that original draft of Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ where she writes in the margins, “Man, I hope that grant comes through.”

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-trip-to-the-universal-library-can-i-bring-you-hosers-anything/710624/46 "2015-01-28T03:01:06Z")

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Homer’s _Margites_  
Emily Brontë’s second novel (if there was one)

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-trip-to-the-universal-library-can-i-bring-you-hosers-anything/710624/47 "2015-01-28T15:30:36Z")

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> [@Apocalypso](#):
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> Also, Homer’s Illad and Odyssey were only two in a series of 7-8 books, and I’d like copies of the rest of the series please.

[At least we know the titles.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Cycle)

N.B., however: Only the Iliad is by Homer; the rest were written by a different poet with the same name.

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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-trip-to-the-universal-library-can-i-bring-you-hosers-anything/710624/48 "2015-01-28T19:04:56Z")

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**Skald the Rhymer** - did you by any chance pick up a title for the guy stalking Jennifer Lopez in her latest [vanity project](http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/01/26/in_jennifer_lopez_s_the_boy_next_door_the_trashiest_moment_is_a_real_classic.html)?

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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-trip-to-the-universal-library-can-i-bring-you-hosers-anything/710624/49 "2015-01-28T19:16:18Z")

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> [@Don\_Draper](#):
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> **Skald the Rhymer** - did you by any chance pick up a title for the guy stalking Jennifer Lopez in her latest [vanity project](http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/01/26/in_jennifer_lopez_s_the_boy_next_door_the_trashiest_moment_is_a_real_classic.html)?

Of course not. I barely acknowledge that Jennifer Lopez exists.

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