From bgoble@neon.nlc.state.ne.us Mon Feb 22 19:03:30 1999 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:10:02 -0500 From: Beth Goble Reply-To: Discussion of Government Document Issues To: GOVDOC-L@lists.psu.edu Subject: humor thanks! Thanks dockers for all your funnies. I KNEW we were funny folks :) Some of you have shared with the list already. I came up with a "top 10 reasons why you would want to use documents" adapted from some off-list contributions. Here goes, with names of contributors omitted to protect the guilty (you know who you are). P.S. I just got back from driving 6 hours in a snowstorm to do the workshop, which was cancelled by the time I got there. I put my car in the ditch in the process too. Soo...your funnies have REALLY brightened up an otherwise awful day and will be saved till June when I get to do the workshop again (tornadoes anyone?). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. You will be the life of the party by sharing federal regulations like the one on how much rodent hair is allowable in processed chocolate (from Tapping the Government Grapevine) 9. You will know how to copyright your sightings of Elvis http://lcwesb.loc.gov/copyright/faq.html #58 8. Your board of Trustees (Principal, college president, whatever) will be impressed by your brilliance and give you a raise 7. You will have great bedtime reading recommendations for parents of hyperactive children. 6. You will realize that the FOIA isn't just the entrance to the library (apologies to my New England colleagues) 5. You will know what really happened at Roswell (absolutely nothing, right?????) 4. You will know how many times the Energizer Bunny appeared in the Congressional Record last year (the list just keeps going and going and going...) 3. You will know how many documents librarians it takes to change a light bulb Only one but she/he has to check with the Library of Congress first One to replace, two to interpret the manuals, and a whole listserv to offer suggetions (lots of you picked up on THAT theme :) So now you're going to tell me that comes under "other duties as assigned," I suppose... 2. You will know what $30 million of your tax money is spent on (compared with $50 million for the Whitewater investigation, for example) 1. And finally a serious one: You will really understand what Hartley Burr Alexander's inscription on the Nebraska state capitol means (the salvation of the state is watchfulness in the citizen) Beth Goble Government Information Coordinator, Nebraska Library Commission 1200 N. St. Suite 120, Lincoln, NE 68508-2023 Internet: bgoble@neon.nlc.state.ne.us Voice: 402-471-4017 Permission granted to forward or duplicate this message.