Confused

Hi. I am very new to the site, I am totally lost as to how it works. Will someone please explain it to me.

I started to write a lengthy answer, but then thought that the best thing to do is refer you to The Tour. I think this will help explain things.

For specific issues, you can check out the FAQ.

>jeant

after you do the tour and search around a bit though, don't hesitate to ask questions! lots of people are always happy to lend a helping hand. i've been on here almost a year, and i still have questions sometimes.

welcome to LT!

so... is this site about books, or something?

Naughty MrA!! *slaps MrA's wrist*

*thwaps Andrew*

>4 MrAndrew:

Are you denying my sacred right to catalog a bobcat?

If it is a stuffed bobcat, the whole thing is really about the skin, which is equivalent to clothing, which people already do here.

Now a live bobcat -- I don't think a live bobcat has any business in a library, or a LIbraryThing.

Every library should have a cat, bob or otherwise!

What's the policy about that? I'd be surprised if many libraries allowed them. I'm allergic as all heck, but I'd not oppose a cat-brary. It sounds homey.

The hard part is shelving them.

They.just.won't.stay.shelved!

Hmmm, that reminds me - has anyone seen Catalog around lately?

Now I understand why Tim changed the name of that tab.

tim- maybe libraries with cats in them could issue all you allergy sufferers some sort of 20,000 leagues under the sea type helmet/breathing apperatus so that the library could remain homey and those of us without allergies could laugh at you... just a thought.

Hey, I am the model of the tolerant man. I spend long weeks at my wife's parent's house, which has three cats, and am reduced to a drippy, weepy mess every time. Heck, I'm alergic to both dust and dust mites. When we found that out, around 15, the doctor asked if I had any books in my room. My mother and I looked at each other and laughed—the room had a built-in bookcase with about 1,000 titles. They stayed with me through college. I suffer for literature!

just imagine where all 685,000 of us would be today if you had been less of a trooper in the face of allergies.... i shudder to think. i at least greatly appreciate the fact that you are wiling to put up with nasal drip for all that is book holy.

now we know not to send you a sweater made out of cat hair for christmas!

Oh sure. You were a drippy, weepy mess due to the cats. Come clean. It was due to watching Steel Magnolias with the ladies, right?

#14, maybe he dislikes tabby cats?
http://www.catfacts.org/tabby-cat-facts.jpg

Umm, #7, I thought you were thinking of this sort of bobcat.

http://www.bobcat.com/index.html?cale=NA_en

Oh thank you guido - so did I!!
I was so confused - I kept wondering why the $#@* anyone would want to put that huge piece of equipment on a shelf???
The allergy bit..and cat hair helped clear the mud - slightly.

add: boy, this thread sure has gone off-topic. Probably helps immensely in showing just how this site works!!

'I was so confused'

You see - still on topic.

Very good MarthaJeanne - now can you fix my confusion please!

Hmmm, cats and books, who ever heard of such a thing?
http://www.librarything.com/work/6829415

There is always

http://www.librarything.com/groups/catsbookslifeisgood

How do you feel about bison?

>8 infiniteletters:
Though I can't know the intentions of the LT cataloger, Bobcat! is an educational film, not a stuffed (or live) animal. See the LOC entry.

Sorry to be a wet blanket.

The blanket was already there, on the bison.

I hope it's not wet. It will ruin the books!

We only have mice in my library. They like the old organic glues and ate the spines off a bunch of old journals before we found out and moved the journals out of the storage room. Our joke is they ate the Journal of Pest Management, but that seems to be apocryphal.

I wish we could have a cat, but we're a government library and there are Rules about that sort of thing.

LOL!

Lovely meander through the minds of LTers...

>30 tardis:

Maybe you could hire the cats to deal with the mice. Then they'd be government employees and subject to a whole different set of Rules.

Wait a minute! Those mice may have learned some important government information from those journals!

http://www.librarything.com/work/922702/book/41193950

After the cats have dealt with the mice, it won't be a problem any more.

I think the union might have something to say about hiring cats...

Our main client department has a Rat Patrol (Google Alberta Rat Patrol if you don't believe me) but they won't deal with my mouse problem. That's up to building management who put down ineffective little traps that never catch anything but spiders.

Did anyone else think that the first sentence in #16 was going to end with "modern Major-General"?

>35 tardis: Ah, I didn't think of that.

The cats would have to join the union, and that just ain't gonna happen.

>36 DieFledermaus:
"With cat-like tread, upon our way we steal..."

How about a book by a cat?

The Silent Miaow

>38 thorold: Upon our prey we steal! You know, like a cat.

In silence dread our cautious way we feel!

Ahhhh, I love it.



...back when I used to have hair! ;)

>38 thorold:, 40

Oops, sorry - that's what happens when you Google the bit of a quotation you remember: there's always someone else who has misheard it the same way.

Which one are you?

What an aptly named thread topic

Front row, second from the left.

More on the Bobcat meme. Be sure and read the tooltip (often the best part of an xkcd 'toon!)

I think this is the bobcat cartoon: http://xkcd.com/325/.

Where is the tooltip?

Robert

Mine is valid too! Just rest your cursor anywhere on the cartoon and a little comment pops up. There is one on every xkcd 'toon (you're going to have to go back and read them all again now).

So it is.

The tooltip is a little finicky which may be why I didn't stumble across it.

Thanks,

Robert

OMG! LT already has a "Bob" cat!

http://www.librarything.com/profile/xhfxfoigbi