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Monday, April 05, 2010 [[Dewey and Colleen are conversing.]] / Dewey: No complaints about those kids? / Colleen: A few silent pleas, but I've ignored them. / Dewey: They're blocking the door! / Colleen: You can get past if you try. Takes a bit of maneuvering. / Dewey: You're making this my problem, aren't you? / Colleen, walking away: Oh look, it's my break.
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010 [[discussing a bunch of kids blocking the entrance to the library]] / Colleen: Are they gone yet? / Dewey: They're on their way out. [[on phone]] Hi, I need a squad car at the library. A bunch of teenagers loitering by the front door. They won't let anyone in. Five of them. Yeah, pretty big. / Dewey [[looking at phone with disappointment]]: We're on our own. / Colleen: The tall one just ate the pay phone.
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Thursday, April 08, 2010 [[Dewey is plugging a large boombox into the wall]] / Teenager: Can't afford batteries? / [[Dewey is holding up the boombox]] / Teenager: Look out, it's the revenge of 1989! / [[music is playing offscreen]] / Mel: Is that... polka? / Colleen: I didn't know teens could run that fast!
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Monday, April 12, 2010 Dewey: You gave all your personal information to a website. / Bald Man: It was encrypted. / Dewey: Meaning no one will see it except the mobsters you sent it to. / Bald Man: Would mobsters give me an iPad, absolutely free? / Dewey: No. / Bald Man: I rest my case.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Dewey: It's a bad idea to give personal information out online. / Bald Man: I wanted to use the website! / Dewey: Did you consider the consequences? / Bald Man: I really wanted to use the website. / [[Dewey disappears, but the man doesn't notice]] / Bald Man: But now I want to take it back or delete it or whatever. You can help with that, right?
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 Dewey [[to bald man at computer]]: You already gave away your personal information. What happens next is beyond my control. / [[Bald man looks nervously left and right]] / Bald Man: Nothing happened yet. That means I'm okay, right?
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Monday, April 19, 2010 [[At the Reference Desk in the library, a patron has approached Dewey who is at the computer and presented a paper]] / Patron: I'm looking for this book. / Dewey: Never heard of it and it's not in the catalog. / Patron: It was published today. / Dewey: And you thought we might have it already? / Patron: Why wouldn't you? / Dewey: I'll check to see if we have an unpopular book by the same author.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010 [[At the Reference Desk in the library, Dewey is talking with a patron.]] / Patron: You buy the book. You put it on the shelves. / Dewey: It's not that easy. / Dewey: We have to add it to our catalog first, so that you can see that it's not here yet. / Dewey: Then we obscure the cover with labels. / Dewey: Then we coat it with mylar to protect it from your grubby hands. / Patron: How long does it take? / Dewey: Long enough to build up a daunting wait list!
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010 [[A Man is speaking with Dewey at the reference desk.]] / Man: Even with all of your processing, it shouldn't take long to get a new book on the shelf! / Dewey: True. If it were just one book. But we're talking *thousands* of books. *Tens* of thousands. It creates quite a backlog. / Colleen, approaching: Look! The 2007 almanac arrived! / Man: I'll head over to the bookstore.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010 [[Dewey is on the phone at the reference desk.]] / Voice on phone: Send out my son! / Dewey: Sorry, I'm not a paging service. / Voice on phone: I'm outside in my car. I can see him sitting right there. / Dewey: Still not my job. / Voice on phone: I'll have you fired. / Dewey: I doubt it. You'd need to leave your car.
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Monday, April 26, 2010 [[Dewey is helping a Strange Man at the desk.]] / Strange Man: There are no leaves on the trees! / Dewey: It's called winter. / Strange Man: The kids aren't in schools! / Dewey: It's called a weekend. / Strange Man: The little beige men won't leave me alone. / Dewey, picking up phone: I'm calling for help.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Narrator: REF DESK / [[Two people are necking in front of a library bookcase. A female librarian in a striped shirt sees them]] / [[The librarian performs a series of umpire gestures]] / Librarian: PENALTY. / HOLDING! / STEP BACK FIVE YARDS!
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Man: Why isn't there a sign that says "Information"? / Dewey: I'm behind a BIG DESK in a LIBRARY. If you're not smart enough to ask me your questions, you don't DESERVE an answer.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010 Angry Woman: That's it, I'm UNFRIENDING you! / Dewey: I don't have an account. / Angry Woman: I meant the LIBRARY. / Dewey: It's a BUILDING. It doesn't have FRIENDS. / Angry Woman: Then how should I express my DISPLEASURE? / Dewey: Stop sending it birthday cards.
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Friday, April 30, 2010 Unshelved Book Club Presents "Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else" by Geoff Colvin / {{Guest Strip (c)Chris Eliopoulos @ MiseryLovesSherman.com}} / Benny: I wish I could be a great MUSICIAN. / Benny: I just don't have any talent, Zort. / Zort: Benny, talent is overrated. / Benny: What? / Zort: That's what it says in this new book I'm reading called "Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else", written by Geoff Colvin. / Basically, it says that there is no such thing as TALENT. It's all HARD WORK, PASSION, and COMMITMENT. / Zort: It applies to athletes, musicians, and even office workers. / Zort: It just requires a lot of what is called "DELIBERATE PRACTICE". / That means a lot of HARD WORK, doing things over and over until you're GREAT at it, then CONTINUING to do it for YEARS. / [[Benny is silent.]] / Benny: I wish I could be a great COUCH POTATO.
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Monday, May 03, 2010 [[Dewey is on the phone and holding a piece of paper.]] / Dewey: This is Dewey at the library. / I've got your complaint letter right here. / Dewey: I'm calling to clarify what you're upset about. / Because your scrawl is indecipherable. / [[Silhouette of Dewey holding the phone in front of him.]] / Dewey: Becoming incoherent won't help.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010 Mel: Look at this complaint letter! / Dewey: Already handled. / Mel: No, this is NEW! It's a complaint about the way the FIRST complaint was handled. / Dewey: How can you TELL? / Mel: Look here, where her pen DUG through the paper. / Dewey: Oh yeah, that would be a reference to me.
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010 [[Dewey is retrieving a paper from the fax machine while Mel reads from a complaint letter.]] / Mel: She says you mistreated her. / Dewey: In my defense, I initially thought her VOICE was a FAX MACHINE. / Fax machine: <> / [[Dewey holds up the fax. Paper reads "I HATE YOU".]] / Mel: That's ridiculous. / Dewey: Then explain THIS.
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Thursday, May 06, 2010 [[Mel is on the phone. Dewey looks on.]] / Mel: I'm going to show you how this is done. Hello, this is the manager of the library. / Mel: Yes I -- No I -- You don't -- / [[The phone is in the trash.]] / Dewey: (off-panel) Is that how it's done? / Mel: (off-panel) With people like her, yes.
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Friday, May 07, 2010 SECRET ORIGINS: DEWEY / {{Dewey narrates nearly the entire comic}} / [[Dewey's mother is changing Baby Dewey's diaper, using a comic as reference]] / One of my first memories is of comics. / Dewey's Mother: Hold still of I'm getting the staple gun! / [[Young Dewey is diagramming the sentence "It's a bird, it's a plane, it's superman!" on a blackboard.]] / I quickly inferred all the rules of grammar. / [[Young Dewey is reading a comic under a tree.]] / I learned a lot of vocabulary. / Young Dewey: %$#@! / [[Young Dewey is reading Garfield Gets Repetitive.]] / I found things to aspire to. / Young Dewey: Someday I'm going to own a cat and be able to read its mind! / Some people were against comics. / Librarian: There will be no funny books in this library as long as I'M here! / [[A bully takes YoungDewey's comic.]] / Bully: I'll take that, runt! <> / [[Young Dewey points at bully. Librarian attacks bully.]] / Young Dewey: He brought COMICS into the LIBRARY! / [[The panel is filled with a picture of a comic called "Power Girl" with a bust super-heroine on the cover.]] / I learned about the facts of life from comics. / [[The comic is now tipped forward. Behind it stands a busty cheerleader in the same pose as the super-heroine on the comic.]] / Cheerleader: Comics are stupid! / [[A freckled girl with glasses approaches Young Dewey, who is reading a comic.]] / But comics also taught me the value of inner beauty. / Girl: I like Spider-man! / [[Young Dewey and the girl share his comic.]] / [[Young Dewey is reading a comic.]] / I thought about becoming a SCIENTIST. / Young Dewey: Taking over the world sounds like a lot of WORK. / [[Young Dewey has fled the scene, leaving the comic behind.]] / I considered a career as an ASTRONAUT. / Dewey's Mother: Mow the lawn NOW or I'll knock you into SPACE! / [[Young Dewey is hiding behind a bookshelf in the library.]] / But comics taught me it's important to go where I'm NEEDED. / [[Middle-aged Librarian is pointing at Young Dewey.]] / Librarian: YOU? A LIBRARIAN? HA! / [[Elderly Librarian is shaking her cane at Teenage Dewey.]] / Librarian: COMICS? HERE? Over my dead body! / [[Adult Dewey is reading the Mallville Advertiser. Paper reads "Local Librarian Finally Checks Out".]] / [[Present-Day Dewey is holding up comics. Several teenagers are running to get them. A boy stands to the side with a book.]] / Dewey: And here I am! Who wants some COMICS? / Boy: I'll show him! I'm going to read a book that's full of WORDS! JUST WORDS. / The end . . . or is it? / [[An author and an illustrator are working and looking angry.]] / Bonus! The secret origin of comics! / Author: You got PICTURES in my WORDS! / Illustrator: You got WORDS in my PICTURES!
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Monday, May 10, 2010 Concerned Mother: For what AGE RANGE is this book appropriate? / Dewey: It depends. / Concerned Mother: I'm looking for something for my kids. / Dewey: That's a big job! / Concerned Mother: Don't you have an opinion? / Dewey: Several. All likely different from yours.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Concerned Mother: Is there any SWEARING in this book? / Dewey: I haven't READ it. / Concerned Mother: Does it have adult content? / Dewey: STILL haven't read it. / Concerned Mother: Are you ALWAYS this irritating? / Dewey: At LAST, a question I can ANSWER!
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