https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock
Posted on 06/15/2023 9:09:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
You laugh, but in 1978, when I worked at the Multnomah County Library Extension (the place where they had their print shop and bindery, bookmobile garage, etc.), there was a guy on the staff who actually did drive around the city and try to recover library property. As far as I knew, that was all he did. I don’t think they paid him very much, though.
Yeah, it was found that the fines were more trouble to collect from an accounting standpoint than they were worth
Go to the library book sale, they dump books by the ton, including the very ones that we would most want people to read.
For some reason history books and biographies of true American heroes and leaders become outdated, especially the ones that we would most like to see people read.
I bought a brand new copy of Huckleberry Finn at one................
So your the reason math textbooks have a new edition every year. The math hasn’t changed but they make sure the only option is to buy a new copy.
No, professors who change two words in a book to make it a new edition are the reason for that. It’s not only math books; they do it with English grammar texts too.
Buried in here somewhere was my post about returning the EXACT SAME BOOK (though not a first edition) to my Jr. High School library 28 years late (1975-2013). Small world.
When I went into the Army I told my girlfriend to go to the library and turn all the books I had checked out for her and her kids. She promised to do it over and over.
Of course, she ghosted me in Basic and when I finally got back to town I had several hundred dollars in fines. The library understood and waived it since I didn’t even have the books.
I was kind of mad but the next thing I heard was that she was a junkie on the streets so that took away any grudge feelings I had.
Who needs the operations manual when you can observe it in real life?
Took my nephew to a book sale at our public library. We snagged a hard bound copy of a Red Rider book for 25 cents. He sold it on ebay for $40.00
Oregon has the lowest church attendance and membership of all the states and has been that way since the 19th century.
Al’s monolog at the end of his encounter with Miss DeGroot is one of my favorite TV scenes. “And the fact that I haven’t put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner!”
Yep, that was a classic.
“It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen...’’
They do in Europe. They use 24 hour clocks.................
24 hour clocks? So there actually is a ‘’thirteen o’clock?
Learn something new everyday...
I don’t think they use the word “o’clock”...............
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock
You’re not wrong; some professors do stand to make more money by forcing their students to buy a “new” edition of textbooks they (the professors) have written, but the publishing companies are probably more to blame. One of my sisters-in-law is from a textbook-publishing family, and I’ve been giving her grief for well over 40 years about gouging big bucks out of starving students.
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