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Well, here's one. I used to work at the library at Ft Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. The library director insisted on keeping the library open 12 hours a day even during the last 3 weeks of August when summer session was over and fall semester hadn't started. Something to do with retaining library funding, I think. Anyhow, the campus was deserted. A friend and I were stuck being the two librarians on duty. We managed to fill up the mornings pretty well, but the time from 2pm - 6pm just DRAGGED.
Somebody had anonymously donated about 200 soft core porn books to the library as a joke, and the books had stayed in a few boxes down in the basement for some years. One afternoon my friend came up to me chuckling and said, "I just got a new library stamp."
"Huh?" sez I.
My friend showed me his new toy and it was a rubber stamp reading "From the collection of Rexer "Bubba" Bernt." Well, Rexer Bernt was the college president at the time and not very beloved at the library, since he always hit us first when funding cuts came around.
"I think we should clean up that stack of old aquisitions down in the basement and add them to the collection along with a little recognition for the doner. What do you think?" he asked.
I was delighted! "You're on!" said I. "The library summer aquisitions committee has spoken!"
We spent the remainder of the week stamping porno books and inserting them at random among the other books on the shelves. Just a little harmless fun on a few August afternoons. That was 15 years ago, and I hear that every now and then a freshman or a professor will still pull one from the shelves...
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