Re: Totaldummyume

Lane W wrote:
> jojo wrote:
>> Lane W wrote:
>>> marg wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:29:07 -0700, % wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> marg wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:38:37 -0700, % wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> marg wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:55:00 -0700, % wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> marg wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:48:35 +0000, jojo wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> % wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> jojo wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lane W wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The man in the library just let out a loud parp.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now, William Stickers is going to point to this man 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> as my
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> friend.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If confronted, he will scroll out endless lists of 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> grocery
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> receipts that show us shopping together and he will 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> claim that
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the man is also in my fencing club.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Remeber, when you Totaldummyume about someone you 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> make a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> totaldummy out of u and me.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> what were you doing at a library?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> he was learning how to spell %
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> i mean who even goes to a library now? i cant remember 
>>>>>>>>>>> the last
>>>>>>>>>>> time i ever went! it was back in school, and the 
>>>>>>>>>>> school had its
>>>>>>>>>>> own library.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I just helped build a new library in our village.  
>>>>>>>>>> People around
>>>>>>>>>> here still like to read books and eschew computers.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> we just got a new one but it took 3 years to raise the 
>>>>>>>>> money for it
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It took about that lone here too.  It's a lovely building 
>>>>>>>> though and
>>>>>>>> worth the wait.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ours is a lot better than the old one , the old one was 
>>>>>>> almost like a
>>>>>>> bookmobile i don't use libraries much anyway
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Our old library was very small and not up to code.  The new 
>>>>>> one has
>>>>>> upgraded restrooms (ADA compliant) and an entry ramp.  It 
>>>>>> is also
>>>>>> larger and the children's section is awesome.  It also has 
>>>>>> a public
>>>>>> meeting room and a computer area.  I've always been into 
>>>>>> books and so
>>>>>> was my husband.  He had over 5000 books, 1500 of which I 
>>>>>> donated to the
>>>>>> new library.  I need to get rid of more.  Sigh....
>>>>>>
>>>>> i have a few books , nature stuff and science and psychology ,
>>>>> she's got all kinds of books even from before i knew her ,
>>>>> all that steven king stuff and the hobbit stuff and the ring 
>>>>> stuff alone
>>>>> makes a ton of books i guess that's why i don't have lots ,
>>>>> i used to move a lot
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My *Library* has all sorts of books; science, geography, 
>>>> history,
>>>> psychology, sociology as well as SF.  It's a very eclectic 
>>>> collection.
>>>>
>>> My library is like the proverbial elephant. If I hang out away 
>>> from the Sun on 4th floor, there are all sorts of biography 
>>> books. If I sit in the capsule on third floor there are law 
>>> books about the States. If I go to the second floor by the 
>>> drop, there are graphical novels people just can't seem to put 
>>> down.
>>
>> how is that an elephant? where is the elephantness being 
>> described?
>>
> Hanging out and being near a drop are just like how elephants 
> sleep in the dark -- upside down.
> 
> Just kidding.
> 
> The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a 
> group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before 
> and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching 
> it. Each blind man feels a different part of the animal's body, 
> but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then 
> describe the animal based on their limited experience and their 
> descriptions of the elephant are different from each other. In 
> some versions, they come to suspect that the other person is 
> dishonest and they come to blows. The moral of the parable is 
> that humans have a tendency to claim absolute truth based on 
> their limited, subjective experience as they ignore other 
> people's limited, subjective experiences which may be equally 
> true.[1][2] The parable originated in the ancient Indian 
> subcontinent, from where it has been widely disseminated.

all wild animals have smells, so a lion has a smell, a tiger has 
a smell and an elephant also has a smell. humans are very smart, 
even if blind, they can smell the wildness.