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Friday funnies: unintentionally amusing patrons



In honor of Friday, one of my favorite reference desk stories:

A clerical coworker had returned to school later in life to earn a
teaching degree and frequently used our library to prepare lesson
plans and other assignments.  One lesson plan was about the history
of our city, Buffalo, NY.

Because of its strategic position on the Great Lakes and at the end
of the Erie Canal, Buffalo used to be the largest grain port in the
world (you should see our colossal concrete grain silos!), became a
rail center second only to Chicago, and I think we're still the
largest flour milling center on the continent.

My coworker wanted to talk about this industry to grade school kids,
and how all that grain meant that we had a lot of breweries.  She
wanted to explain how you make beer out of wheat, and went off to the
Children's Room.

Not long after, she came back, full of indignation.  "I can't believe
that they don't have *anything* on home brewing for kids!"


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who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary
power, reconstitute the world."  -Adrienne Rich
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