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| Sunday, October 12, 2008 | Unshelved Book Club presents "Flesh House" by Stuart MacBride / Dewey: Humans are found in a refrigerated container.
/ Tamara: I'm going to eat my lunch and pretend books like that don't exist. / Dewey: A serial killer is slaughtering people and putting their meat into the food supply.
/ Buddy: Is that a yes to the pepperoni? / Dewey: A serial killer with the same M.O. was arrested years ago but released on a technicality. The police are looking for him, but what if they arrested the wrong man the first time? / Dewey: Joints of meat with pierced nipples and tattoos...
/ Colleen: I told you. No one's going to ruin my sandwich. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081012 |
| Monday, October 13, 2008 | Patron: I just need to print a FEW more pages!
/ Dewey: There's a copy center just down the street / Patron: But they're so EXPENSIVE!
/ Dewey: That's because toner and paper cost MONEY. / [[Dewey on computer at help desk, patron standing in front of desk]]
/ Patron: Not in the library!
/ Dewey: Sadly, the magic unicorn that brings our free supplies took a wrong turn at the rainbow bridge. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081013 |
| Tuesday, October 14, 2008 | Patron: I'd like to revise my previous statement. / Patron: I HAVEN'T printed my limit. / Patron [[revealed to be standing beside Merv]]: The computer incorrectly SHOWS that I have. / Dewey: I see you were able to retain expert assistance. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081014 |
| Wednesday, October 15, 2008 | Merv: My client demands that you make this unprovable situation right. / Merv: In exchange for which, you can forego the lengthy technical investigation and read more comics. / Ned: Good, but you forgot to block the punitive response.
/ Merv: What do you mean?
/ Dewey [[to patron]]: Oops, I accidentally made it so that next week you can't print anything. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081015 |
| Thursday, October 16, 2008 | Woman: You're wrong! / Woman: You're incompetent! / Woman: You're a liar! What's this?
/ Dewey [[presenting her with a cash prize]]: You just hit the Trifecta! http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081016 |
| Friday, October 17, 2008 | [[A male patron is talking to Dewey at the reference desk.]] / Male patron: Carrot sticks walk upright. / Male patron: My thresher needs regular maintenance.
/ [[Dewey leaves and comes back with Buddy.]] / Male patron: Have you rinsed your butter churn?
/ Buddy: My cabbage runs blue! http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081017 |
| Saturday, October 18, 2008 | [[Computer Victim is looking some print-outs and talking to Dewey]]
/ Computer Victim: Thanks for doing this for me!
/ Dewey: It was the fastest way to get you out of here. / Computer Victim: You slay me!
/ Dewey: If only I could. / [[Mel and Dewey are talking at the desk. Computer Victim is walking away]]
/ Mel: I was sure you were going to be rude to him.
/ Dewey: I tried, but he wouldn't believe me. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081018 |
| Sunday, October 19, 2008 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "THE ROAD" By Cormac McCarthy
/ {{Guest strip by Paul Southworth of www.uglyhill.com}} / After the end of the world, a man and his young son struggle to survive their journey across a stark, unforgiving post-apocalyptic wasteland...
/ [[Tired boy in tattered hoodie and backpack talks to father ahead. It is snowing lightly.]]
/ Boy: Are we dead yet?
/ Father: No. / [[Now we see both the boy and his father. The father sports a beard and mustache and wears a toque on top and is pushing what seems to be a shopping cart with cans in it.]]
/ Boy: How about now?
/ Father: Not yet. / Boy: When are we gonna be DEAD?
/ Father: We'll be dead when we're DEAD, okay? STOP ASKING! / [[They are inside in full color.]]
/ Father[[drinking what seems to be a Coke]]: That about cover it?
/ Boy[[holding a copy of The Road]]: NO! http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081019 |
| Monday, October 20, 2008 | [[Dewey is at a computer. Mel stands behind him.]]
/ Mel: You're spending too much time on the computer.
/ Dewey: This is a social networking site to help us connect with teens. / [[Mel leans in closer]]
/ Dewey: I'm bringing together Flash, videos, friends, favorites, texting, a new operating system, gigapixels, and an immersive audio experience. / [[Mel walks away. Tamara now stands behind Dewey.]]
/ Tamara: That sounds cool!
/ Dewey: I thought it sounded nonsensical. But it got her off my back. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081020 |
| Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | [[Mel is watching over Dewey's shoulder as he uses the computer.]] / Mel: I still don't understand what you're doing.
/ Dewey: You authorized it. / Mel: I want to "get" it.
/ Dewey: You'll get the credit. / Mel: I want to be in the loop.
/ Dewey: If I stop and explain, someone else will do it first. Then I won't be able to cite you as my inspiration in all those journal articles. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081021 |
| Wednesday, October 22, 2008 | [[Tamara is talking to Dewey, who is seating and reading a stack of books.]]
/ Tamara: You're NOT working on a social networking site?
/ Dewey: No. I'm using the time to prepare book talks. / Tamara: Why didn't you just TELL Mel that?
/ Dewey: I tried. She turned down my request. / Tamara: I don't understand. It sounds like you're LYING.
/ Dewey: Only by an unfashionably rigid definition. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081022 |
| Thursday, October 23, 2008 | [[Mel and Dewey are walking together.]]
/ Mel: I told a few other managers about your social networking revolution!
/ Dewey: Yeah. That didn't work out. / [[Mel and Dewey stand in front of a bookshelf. Dewey shelves a book.]]
/ Mel: They were so envious!
/ Dewey: Then tell them we got a grant for an extended research project. / [[Mel stands behind Dewey, who has a book in each hand.]]
/ Mel: But...wouldn't that be a *lie?*
/ Dewey: Did *everyone* drink pedantic tea this morning? http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081023 |
| Friday, October 24, 2008 | [[Dewey, talking to Mel with a stack of papers in his hands]]
/ Dewey: I've got something for you to brag about to your peers!
/ Mel: Your social networking site? / [[Dewey hands pages to Mel]]
/ Dewey: Better! A whole passel of book talks for the spring!
/ Mel: How is that better? / Dewey: These will actually help the teens we're supposed to help.
/ Mel: Try telling that to my Library 2.0 breakfast club. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081024 |
| Friday, October 24, 2008 | [[Dewey, talking to Mel with a stack of papers in his hands]]
/ Dewey: I've got something for you to brag about to your peers!
/ Mel: Your social networking site? / [[Dewey hands pages to Mel]]
/ Dewey: Better! A whole passel of book talks for the spring!
/ Mel: How is that better? / Dewey: These will actually help the teens we're supposed to help.
/ Mel: Try telling that to my Library 2.0 breakfast club. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081024 |
| Saturday, October 25, 2008 | Patron: Are you the token male, or are you qualified to answer my question?
/ Dewey: Both! http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081025 |
| Sunday, October 26, 2008 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "The Snow Spider" by Jenny Nimmo / [[A boy throws a red and yellow object]]
/ Dewey: Things haven't been good in the Griffiths house since Gwyn's sister Bethan disappeared years ago during a storm. On his 9th birthday, his grandmother gives him five special gifts to find out if he's a magician, like his ancestor Math, Lord of Gwynedd, Gwydion, and Gilfaethwy. If he has the power, he may be able to get his heart's desire and see Bethan again. / [[In the library]]
/ Boy: He traded PRESENTS for his SISTER? Was he CRAZY? http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081026 |
| Monday, October 27, 2008 | Patron: My father checked these out. They were due in 1961. / Patron: I thought about keeping 'em. But I thought this might make a heartwarming story in the paper. / Patron: "Books returned 47 years late."
/ Dewey: "Late fees bankrupt local man's estate." http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081027 |
| Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | Patron 1: We'd like to check out all your books on witchcraft.
/ Patron 2: We're going to burn them for Halloween! / Dewey: But you'll check them out first?
/ Patron 1: Of course!
/ Patron 2: We're not criminals! / Dewey: The selection's pretty picked over.
/ Patron 1 [[to Patron 2]]: I told you we should've done this on the fourth of July! http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081028 |
| Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | Mel: You told them where to find BOOKS to BURN?
/ Dewey: It's okay. They checked them out first. / Mel: But... But...
/ Dewey: "I don't care why they check out books as long as they follow the rules." / Mel: Who said that?
/ Dewey: You. Last week. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081029 |
| Thursday, October 30, 2008 | Mel: We're not here to help people commit crimes!
/ Dewey: True. Sometimes we change the toner in the photocopier too. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081030 |
| Friday, October 31, 2008 | [[Carved jack o'lanterns of Merv, Bucky, Dewey, Colleen, Doreen, and Mel.]] / Happy Halloween from Mallville Public Library. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081031 |
| Saturday, November 01, 2008 | [[Woman with glasses comes to Dewey on the help desk]]
/ Woman: I need you to look up something.
/ Dewey: Can you be more specific? / Woman: Not really.
/ Dewey [[making a call]]: Then let me get today's designated nonspecific problem solver. / [[Tamara appears with various implements while Dewey leaves.]]
/ Tamara: I've got a Tyvek(R) suit, salad tongs, and the Old Farmer's Almanac. What seems to be the problem? http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081101 |
| Sunday, November 02, 2008 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "Rat Life: a mystery" by Tedd Arnold / Dewey: Todd's family lives in the office of their hotel in Elmore, NY.
/ His father works in a glass factory and his mother runs the hotel while trying to take care of Todd's ailing grandmother.
/ The other day, on the way home from school, Todd found a stray puppy.
/ He tells everyone that it ran away after biting him, and now he may have to get rabies shots.
/ Rat saw what really happened to the puppy.
/ Rat's a little older than Todd, and lives at the drive-in with his mother.
/ He offers Todd a job helping out-- free popcorn, free movies, and a paycheck.
/ They pick up garbage, do chores, and dress up as monsters during a B-movie.
/ As Todd gets to know Rat, and tries to figure him out, he keeps coming back to the story of a murdered man found in the river, a man who was beaten to death. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081102 |
| Monday, November 03, 2008 | [[Blond man with mustache in a wet poncho confronts Dewey, who is looking away from him at the computer.]]
/ Man: Sure is wet outside.
/ Dewey: Sure is. / [[Man points his thumb at himself.]]
/ Man: Life requires FORETHOUGHT. I bet you think I was LUCKY to be dressed like this. I was NOT. I checked the weather report. I PLANNED for it. / [[Dewey is still not looking at the man, only at the computer.]]
/ Man: You don't look ready for ANYTHING.
/ Dewey: And yet I'm the one who's dry. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081103 |
| Tuesday, November 04, 2008 | [[Tamara is walking in the rain with an umbrella]] / [[Tamara is splashing puddles and dancing in the rain]] / [[Dewey and Tamara talking]]
/ Dewey: Jumping in puddles again?
/ Tamara [[dripping wet, smiling]]: I'm anticipating the rainbow! http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081104 |
| Wednesday, November 05, 2008 | [[Dewey is standing with Colleen who is soaking wet and frowning]]
/ Dewey: Don't tell me the weather's got YOU down too. / Dewey: I hate to sound like Tamara, but what's it going to take to get you to smile?
/ [[Colleen continues to frown.]] / [[Mel walks up.]]
/ Mel: Dewey, I need you to run to the bank for change.
/ Dewey: But I don't have a raincoat!
/ [[Colleen perks up and smiles.]] http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081105 |
| Thursday, November 06, 2008 | [[Wet Dewey gives roll of dimes to Mel.]]
/ Dewey: I ran through the rain to get your roll of dimes from the bank. I was almost struck by lightning. / [[Dewey points at Mel, who is breaking open the roll of dimes.]]
/ Dewey: I dodged a falling branch. I think I'm coming down with pneumonia. So this had better be worth it. / [[Mel gives dime to angry woman.]]
/ Mel: Here's your refund from the photocopier!
/ Angry woman: You're still going to hear from my attorney. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081106 |
| Friday, November 07, 2008 | [[Dewey is holding 3 books at the circulation desk and talking to a woman]]
/ Woman [[pointing to the books]]: You can't charge me for these!
/ Dewey: Those books are ruined. / Woman: It's not MY fault it rained!
/ Dewey: No, but you could have taken reasonable precautions. / Woman [[arms crossed]]: It was an act of God.
/ Dewey [[Holding up an invoice]]: Unfortunately we can't invoice him. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081107 |
| Saturday, November 08, 2008 | Library Tip #45: Read the last page first / [[Dewey at computer]]
/ Mel: Did you read the analysis of our circulation methodology?
/ Dewey: Skimmed the conclusion three times. Took me six minutes. / Mel: That's like reading the last page of a mystery first!
/ Dewey: It's exactly like that. / [[Dewey and Mel at help desk in background, Colleen passed out on book in foreground]]
/ Mel: What about the supporting data?
/ Dewey: Colleen tried. Didn't make it past the bar charts. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081108 |
| Sunday, November 09, 2008 | The Unshelved Book Club presents Death Rites by Alicia Giménez-Bartlett / [[An older man and a young woman sit at a counter or desk, analyzing evidence ; he eats soup and reads a document while she sips coffee and looks at photos.]] / Mel: Petra Delicado left behind a thriving legal career and two ex-husbands to join the police.
/ Posted to a high level position in the Department of Documentation, she is viewed as an intellectual and given a desk job.
/ She gets a chance to prove herself when a serial rapist begins attacking young women in Barcelona.
/ Petra and an aging detective are assigned the case.
/ The victims and their families are uncooperative, her partner is very provencial, and no one respects a female detective.
/ To demonstrate she can handle the job, Petra toughens her edge, just when she and her partner need to learn to count on one another. / [[Back to the library]]
/ Mel: [[standing like Petra, cup of coffee in hand]] It reminds me of my struggle to be taken seriously by the men I work with.
/ Dewey: When did I not take you seriously?
/ Mel: This morning's staff meeting.
/ Dewey: There was a staff meeting? http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081109 |
| Monday, November 10, 2008 | [[Dewey is at the Information Desk. A patron hand him a book.]] / Patron: I want to return this.
/ Dewey: Okay. / [[Patron continues to stand at the desk with his hand out.]] / Dewey: Anything else?
/ Patron: I'm waiting for my refund. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081110 |
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