Author: Holly
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Good Clean Fun – Soap Carving!
Soap Sculpture Gaba 1969 Submitter: Okay, first off, I always thought soap-carving was something of a joke–something that you hear about, but in which nobody ever actually engaged. I think the only real reference to soap-carving I ever saw was a “Peanuts” cartoon where Linus was describing to Charlie Brown…
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Be Bold with Bananas
Be Bold with Bananas Banana Control Board 1970 Credit goes to Book Riot for bringing this little gem to our attention. Also, my friend Brian, who sent me that link. I verified library holdings just to be sure it is an awful “library” book and not just a weird book…and…
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Touched
Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story Sandusky with Richeal 2000 Submitter: Hello, I’m a librarian in [NY] and a huge college football fan. Shortly after the sex abuse scandal at Penn State I decided to look on amazon and in our library catalog to see if we had anything by or…
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Do you have a sunburn, or are you always this hot?
101 Best Opening Lines (Meeting People) Weber 1983 Thank you, submitter, for making my day. I cracked up when I saw this! Seriously, we can do better for our patrons in the dating pool. It’s just so cheesy! Did people really say these things in 1983? (God help us…do they…
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Ham Shack, Baby
Setting Up & Using Your Own Ham Shack Cebik 1981 They left off “your mother’s basement” from the list of places you could set up a ham shack (first sentence, first image below). Seriously, though, this is a reasonable subject for the community college library that owned it, but it…
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The Curse
Everything You Need to Know About Getting Your Period The Need to Know Library Rue 1995 These books are so important for adolescent girls! We find them all the time tucked away in the dark corners of the library. Poor things, they’re too embarrassed or shy to actually check them…
Awful Library Books 