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Two people making out.

5 (7.6%)

Kids playing video games.

3 (4.5%)

...and NOT on the library computers.

7 (10.6%)

Someone using the bathroom sink as a sponge bath.

5 (7.6%)

Horrid abuse of the Victorian Porn Collection.

1 (1.5%)

The entire collection of MAD Magazine, from issue 1.

5 (7.6%)

A robot. Seriously. And it WASN'T Pintsize. (Thankfully)

2 (3%)

Police arresting someone for not paying their fines.

0 (0%)

Someone eating between the stacks.

6 (9.1%)

Someone smoking/drinking/dropping acid in the stacks.

4 (6.1%)

Someone re-enacting the Death Star trench scene with desk chairs and paper hats.

8 (12.1%)

COMPILING....

20 (30.3%)

Total Members Voted: 64

[jwhouk]

A bit of a change for a poll this week, since we're focused a bit on libraries...

[Method of Madness]

I've seen none of these.

[Pilchard123]

I'm torn between the games-not-on-library-machines and the robot. I went for the robot because I built the offending device.

[RedWolf4]

I seem to remember that one time the school library had boxes of toilet paper all over the desks. They were there one day, and gone the next. And it wasn't just a few either, it was like enough to stock a super market for a week, just huge amounts.

[PintsizeForPresident]

I have never encountered something really weird in a library. One amusing example was a law student, asleep on top of his study books, in the library of the astronomy department at my university. Law students often came to our library because it was a lot quieter than their own one. At least, until they arrived. They had a tendency to bray (is that the right word? "Talking" would not do them justice) loudly about the latest case they were studying.

[Barmymoo]

Not something I've seen myself, but I know lots of librarians and library staff through Edith and one day they were all exchanging stories about library users who pooed in the library. Apparently it's more common than you'd think, and not only children either...

Also, oi, I don't bray!

[jwhouk]

I feel incredibly stupid for not having "Using the stacks as a toilet" option. 

OFF TOPIC: Anyone think Psyduck should be changed to where he's doing "Opa Gangam Style"?

[celticgeek]

A librarian friend of ours had to remove a student (apparently drunk) who had removed all of her clothes and had gone to sleep on the floor. 

[Method of Madness]

@Joseph - No. Just...no.

[DrBear]

Rather lame by these standards; the strangest thing in my college library was this bit of graffiti:

"Pope John Paul I - Patron saint of limited-term employees."

[Carl-E]

Better than "heart attack patients"! 

I've not only seen people dropping acid in the stacks, I was an offender... but you needed multiple choices, because I've seen sex in the stacks and drinking (not sodas), swordfights, and all sorts of unusual behaviour. 

Then again, the Purdue library stacks used to comprise 5 densely packed floors, and it's really impossible to tell what the fuck's going on in there. 

[Sidhekin]

Multiple choices for "weirdest"?

... it's a tie, then?

Mine is a boring life: I cannot recall having seen anything I'd call weird at a library.

[Mr_Rose]

Wait, sword fights in the stacks are unusual?
Or are you talking about actual steel blades and not whatever was to hand?

[Carl-E]

Epees and sabres.  No masks, though. 


Bloody fencers...

[Tova]

Nothing weird unfortunately, but I have just this week seen a photo of a sign allegedly placed in a library stating that various Lance Armstrong books were to be moved to the fiction section.

[miados]

I was watching the first episode of every anime they had in the college library to decide if the anime club wanted to show any of them. oddly enough the only reason they had any was because we donated part of our club budget to allow them to have anime in the library. anyway there i was with my portable dvd play and a stack of anime watching the start of about a dozen series taking notes on the genre, age rating, voice acting quality, and percieved target audience to give to the others with power in the club so we could decide on our shows.

[cesariojpn]

I hate the fact that Flattr button is too close to the QC forums link. I try to pinpoint to the QCF link, and that damn Flattr button pops up and completely obscures the QCF link. ARGH!!!

[Mr_Rose]

Wait, sword fights in the stacks are unusual?
Or are you talking about actual steel blades and not whatever was to hand?

Epees and sabres.  No masks, though. 


Bloody fencers...

I reckon tinfoil and spoons counts as "whatever was to hand" personally…

(I am not a fan of most 'sport' martial art forms)

Also, my old school library did have, in the reference section, what seemed to be every issue of Punch Magazine ever printed and as subscription to the new ones. Never found out why, but it would have explained some of the faculty....

[Kugai]

I hate the fact that Flattr button is too close to the QC forums link. I try to pinpoint to the QCF link, and that damn Flattr button pops up and completely obscures the QCF link. ARGH!!!

I second that

[Carl-E]

Moved and seconded.  All in favor? 

(Aye!)

[CrowFairy]

I like it where it is because it means it's less likely that my IRL friends won't find me.

No, seriously, I don't want them to come on here and guess who I am. >_>

[Bluesummers]

*GROAN*


The weirdest thing to happen in my high school library was for all the goth kids to show up one day and just start playing Yugioh on the floor in the middle of the research area. I mean, I was the VP of the Trading Card Club, but this was an unsanctioned event...they should have come to me or the Prez first.

The weirdest thing to happen in my college library was going down to the stacks one morning, to find some research materials, opening the particular stack, and having some dumbshit pot-head fall out from them. Apparently he had gotten wasted, wandered in there, and when they closed on him, instead of walking out (they're motorized but really slow), he crawled up onto an empty shelf and fell asleep.

When the police questioned him, it turned out he wasn't even a UConn student...he was from Eastern, the college about fifteen miles away.

[mustang6172]

My high school library had a racist anthropology book from 1925.

[techkid]

I saw a small elastic band battle during high school. Mind you, the students involved were in years 10 and 11 (in Australia, year 12 is your last year of school, just for reference).

[Truec]

Marten what not do well in my archery course.  5 pushups for being caught with your hands in your pockets, 10 for using the word 'what'. 

[Near Lurker]

...and here... we... go.

[BluishJeans]

Marten and working out. Okay, let this sink in for a minute.

I'm envisioning a training montage with a disappointed, exhausted Marten at the end. What about you guys?
Also, what's up with all the hate for puns, I liked Claire's joke ^^'

[ZoeB]

Nothing weird unfortunately, but I have just this week seen a photo of a sign allegedly placed in a library stating that various Lance Armstrong books were to be moved to the fiction section.

Apparently Genuine. I'm in Canberra now, but that's Manly library alright.

[Adjamemnon]

To answer the poll question, as I put down "Other":

Funniest:  Someone wrote "JESUS SAVES" on the bathroom stall, and someone added "you money on a new or used vehicle."

Weirdest:  A she-male porn mag left in the bathroom.  This was in a college library where the nearest porn store was one town over, about an hour away.  So someone not only brought their own porn to a college bathroom, they left it there.

or

Same college library, different restroom; it had a reputation for being very "cruisy."  There was always a ton of graffiti on the stalls, making it clear what people going in there could expect at certain times if they tapped their foot, etc.  In an effort to combat having to clean off all the pen and pencil marks on the stalls, the janitors installed a bulletin board, complete with supplies of paper and pencils, and a message asking people to use that instead.

[WAYF]

Jeph, I'm not sure who keeps telling you your puns are lame, but they've clearly never met my family.
Personally I think that one's very clever.

I especially like Claire's tendency to hold her grin for a while after making a joke. Nice character quirk.

[Soulsynger]

I hate the fact that Flattr button is too close to the QC forums link. I try to pinpoint to the QCF link, and that damn Flattr button pops up and completely obscures the QCF link. ARGH!!!

I second that

Thirded.

@Comic:

• INB4 someone making a compilation of all of Claire's "bad joke silent panels" at some point!
• INB4 EVERYONE having that face as an avatar at some point!
• And push ups don't really build shoulder muscles, do they?

[ZoeB]

Also, what's up with all the hate for puns, I liked Claire's joke ^^'

No reaction. No groan. No return sally.
I'll go out on a limb and say this relationship has no future. Though that's a matter of a pinion.

[Lubricus]

I feel incredibly stupid for not having "Using the stacks as a toilet" option. 

I've seen that, unfortunately...

OFF TOPIC: Anyone think Psyduck should be changed to where he's doing "Opa Gangam Style"?

YES!

[Lubricus]

Also, what's up with all the hate for puns, I liked Claire's joke ^^'

No reaction. No groan. No return sally.
I'll go out on a limb and say this relationship has no future. Though that's a matter of a pinion.

We'll see. It sort of depends on Martens reason for not replying - it might be an attempt at teasing or something.

Seems to me that Claire and Marten are getting along quite well. That does probably not mean that they're going to get involved or anything, but they do seem to become real friends, I think.

[Sidhekin]

Marten gets well along with everyone, doesn't he?

... well, except Clinton, perhaps ...

[Lubricus]

Marten gets well along with everyone, doesn't he?

Sure, but it doesn't seem Claire does. So even if it is business as usual for Marten, it will be more significant for her.

[Akima]

I'll go out on a limb and say this relationship has no future. Though that's a matter of a pinion.

That pun is flying on a wing and a prayer. Claire demonstrates that every girl likes to think she has a touch of Helen of Troy in her.

"If you liked it, then you shoulda pumped some iron for it. Wa-ah-oh!"

Puns are awesome.

[Loki]

Akima, your link sent me on a journey through old comics which ended 61 comics later with the realization I am running late for class and probably shouldn't be reading Space Wizards.

Edit: And then the Dora-looking-at-Martens-porn-ordeal happened. 

[Soulsynger]

[ ... ]
Edit: And then the Dora-looking-at-Martens-porn-ordeal happened. 

I can see men in black suits placing fingers on their ears. Most of them look serious. Some of them reach for pockets on the inside of their jackets. Short, slender metallic-looking sticks with rounded tops emerge.
They start moving towards you with quickening pace...

Quick, get out of here!

[Blackjoker]

...her pun and expression make me think of Marten from when the comic started.

[pwhodges]

Marten and working out. Okay, let this sink in for a minute.

Marten already exercises.

I hate the fact that Flattr button is too close to the QC forums link. I try to pinpoint to the QCF link, and that damn Flattr button pops up and completely obscures the QCF link. ARGH!!!

(1) Haven't you bookmarked the forum yet?
(2) You need to develop your wrist control.

[Loki]

(1) Haven't you bookmarked the forum yet?

Psh, bookmarking is for sissies. I start typing forums.q and then go down the required number of times, then hit enter.

[Border Reiver]

I'll go out on a limb and say this relationship has no future. Though that's a matter of a pinion.

That pun is flying on a wing and a prayer.

Puns are awesome.

Depends on the pun, that one lacked some strength.

I do have to say that the interaction between Marten and Claire seems very natural and unforced.  Well done.

[Redball]

I've signed up at a senior dating site. My first effort at describing myself and my preferences is lame. But I ask that a companion recognize and acknowledge puns quickly, with a groan, a chuckle or a punch. Doesn't matter which. Marten flunks.

[Bluesummers]

And push ups don't really build shoulder muscles, do they?

Not when there's no muscles to build. Poor Marten. Poor, poor unmuscular Marten.

[themacnut]

Protein drinks. That's what Marten needs. Along with some steriods. Then the pushups might help.

[Finvara]

Also, what's up with all the hate for puns, I liked Claire's joke ^^'

No reaction. No groan. No return sally.
I'll go out on a limb and say this relationship has no future. Though that's a matter of a pinion.

See, that's a great pun. I thought Claire's pun was great, too. Marten's just sore he was Delt a bad hand.

[jwhouk]

(1) Haven't you bookmarked the forum yet?

Psh, bookmarking is for sissies. I start typing forums.q and then go down the required number of times, then hit enter.

"Option-W - porn? That's weird."

[Barmymoo]

I liked Claire's pun too! I can't think of a single exercise that will alter the shape of Marten's shoulders though. I suppose he could do some weirdly-specific exercises that would bulk up the muscles around them, but basically it's down to bone structure.

[hakko504]

(1) Haven't you bookmarked the forum yet?

Psh, bookmarking is for sissies. I start typing forums.q and then go down the required number of times, then hit enter.

Me too. The fact that QC is usually the first item in that list is both disturbing and convenient.