What funny things have you seen in the library?

DrIndy

This thread is a blatant copy of the "Where in Trinity" except here, you post on what library you have been in and what funny things you saw other people do whilst there......

I was in the Ussher briefly today and popped into the Ussher computer room where I met a load of people I knew. I then proceeded to attempt to wave/obscene gesture someone I knew through the glass - but EVERYONE except the person concerned thought I was just some loony.....

Pinky is officially not around....... Hmmmm.......

Agent Smith

been in leckey and usher....

John

Haven't been in the library for a little while but I need to visit the Berkley tomorrow. I doubt anything exciting will happen

Agent Smith

i saw people having sex in the usher one night....

Pet

Lucky you.

Agent Smith

indeedy

foxybrowne

I will be in Ussher tomorrow.

ApeXaviour

OH GOD THIS IS A BORING THREAD..

Sort of a good idea but it's not being picked up on very well whatsoever..
I'm gonna change the title.


If it doesn't perk up I'm closing it..

Nietzschean

Er versues a discussion of where we are in tcd is amazingly interesting?

John

I once saw my reflection in the library, that was amusing

Calm Horizons

I once saw a guy studying; that was pretty far-out.

DrIndy

I saw stargal today in the library..........

Moahahahahaha......

Gotta make a paper plane and sail it down the center of the ussher.......

Nietzschean

DrIndy wrote:

I saw stargal today in the library..........

Moahahahahaha......

Gotta make a paper plane and sail it down the center of the ussher.......

o god this thread is lame

Pet

Gotta make a paper plane and sail it down the center of the ussher.......

Y'know, I was milliseconds away from doing that one day, I had the plane ready and all, but it was only my wide-eyed fresher's (it was the third week of term) terrible fear of disapproving scowls from librarians that kept me back..

Agent Smith

where is the love.


i too was in the liabary today, (usher) altho it was only to return a book.


Joe

DrIndy

I apologise for potentially starting a lame thread - I hoped that this would engender a love of the library where concerns do not rest solely on study - but that of study of the rest of humanity that surrounds you. Their strange quirks, their means of trying not to study. The sleeping (snoring!) at desks, the muttering, the quirks when you look up and see some sort of strange ritual. I always enjoy the study of psychology, and the ideal petri dish is the forced study of those that surround you......

Or just the bizarre.....

Perhaps that will be enhanced as the crazedness ensues as imminent examinations approach.

Pet

I once saw my reflection in the library, that was amusing

Don't be so hard on yourself.

Chick

I ain't been in no libraries of late, but last time I checked ain't nothin' funny in there, what's changed! :cool:

Agent Smith

well, they all have books,

and i discovered how to get into the pc room in the usher!

Chick

There's a pc room in the Usher :eek:


That's how often I frequent the BLU!

Agent Smith

ushers the best liabary to get distracted in, Ever time i go there, there's people talking, lissening to music, and theres often football games on outside.

Chick

I think the Leckys the worst, admittedly I too am one of those people who breezes along talking aloud... but everyone else does it!!

sleepingbeauty

nothing interesting ever happens in the hammo library, people are always really studying in there :eek:

DrIndy

You should stand up and shout at the top of your voice.....

"I'm studying!" and then sit down......

wayfarer

I heard that a month or two ago, there was a gerbil or hamster or some such rodent set loose in the Ham and the Library staff had to set up traps for it. Last I heard of the little critter was that it got stuck under a bookcase. Anyone know any more about it?

DrIndy

it probably survived off the sandwiches of the somnolent engineers who were sonorously "studying" in the Ham.....

Anyone see the Trinity cats up there?

dr_banuska

Way back when I was a fresher some poor girl got stuck in the lift in the Berekely for an hour or two. The horror of which you won't be able to comprehend unless you've ever actually used that lift.

It WAS quite amusing tho :rolleyes:

DrIndy

You should fart in the lift just before you hop out and then impishly grin as it goes to another floor to pick up a suprised punter on the long ascent up the ussher...........

Kevin_rc_ie

that was terrible about the hamster type rodent. poor little guy.

hey sb how the exams going? all scholarly?

KillerRabbit

DrIndy wrote:

You should fart in the lift just before you hop out and then impishly grin as it goes to another floor to pick up a suprised punter on the long ascent up the ussher...........

...Or any of this number of things:
http://www.geocities.com/area51newmexico/lifts.html

ApeXaviour

My favourites.. for simplicity and originality:

2) Shake the person's hand when he/she enter the lift.

19) Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: "I've got new socks on!"

36) Play the harmonica. (After reading this I'm gonna give a shot at learning a blues riff on a harmonica I just found)

53) Without letting anyone see, press the emergency stop button. Act surprised and start talking to yourself "its ok, it wasnt your fault you killed your family. It was SATAN, damm you SATAN! DAMN YOU!!!" Then press the stop button again and act as if nothing has happened.

71) Suggest to the other passengers that you all should play a game of twister. Then get out the board and lie it on the floor

98) While the doors are opening, hurriedly whisper, "Hide it...quick!" then whistle innocently.

PrecariousNuts

While in the Hammo I notice this guy standing in front of the desks next to me for 5 minutes or so. The desk was completely empty and he had a puzzled expression on his face. He comes over to me and goes "Hey did you see anyone take my stuff?". Thinking someone had taken a book he was using or something I told him I hadn't seen anyone near it. He then says "But someone's after taking my bag, all my notes and the 3 books I just took out". He heads off and a few minutes later he returns with 2 of the staff and the three of them stand there puzzled over the empty desk.

ApeXaviour

Hence why the sign is there.. do not leave your personal belongings unattended!!

Kevin_rc_ie

aparently if you leave your desk for more than 15mins the staff can take your stuff away and let some other guy sit there if it's busy. but that sounds like someone has just knicked all your man's stuff. I hope it was his mate thou. there's been a few laptops whipped from the arts libraries hasn't there been?

KillerRabbit

ApeXaviour wrote:

My favourites.. for simplicity and originality:

2) Shake the person's hand when he/she enter the lift.

19) Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: "I've got new socks on!"

36) Play the harmonica. (After reading this I'm gonna give a shot at learning a blues riff on a harmonica I just found)

53) Without letting anyone see, press the emergency stop button. Act surprised and start talking to yourself "its ok, it wasnt your fault you killed your family. It was SATAN, damm you SATAN! DAMN YOU!!!" Then press the stop button again and act as if nothing has happened.

71) Suggest to the other passengers that you all should play a game of twister. Then get out the board and lie it on the floor

98) While the doors are opening, hurriedly whisper, "Hide it...quick!" then whistle innocently.

If someone does all the odd numbers, I'll do the even numbers. In the Berkerley.

Kevin_rc_ie

Apex won't do nothing he's in a wimp

Nietzschean

Kevin_rc_ie
This message has been deleted by ApeXaviour. Reason: Ah no need for that (it was really me though)

sleepingbeauty

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

hey sb how the exams going? all scholarly?

meh not really..yeah i think i did incredibly badly :rolleyes: (combination of being sick for 3weeks, going out too much, and just not studying in general )
But not to worry at least i got a little study done for the summer
Ive not even finished the exams yet, one more on wed..but its redmond maths so itll be p*ss easy- yay
Who the hell makes up the exam timetables.. whoever they are they're evil..eating into my holiday :mad:

Nietzschean

you know these exams were all optional? makes it harder to moan about em...apparently maths or some class had exams 3 days in a row...which i imagine is worse...

Boston

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

aparently if you leave your desk for more than 15mins the staff can take your stuff away and let some other guy sit there if it's busy. but that sounds like someone has just knicked all your man's stuff. I hope it was his mate thou. there's been a few laptops whipped from the arts libraries hasn't there been?

doesn't have to be staff, and technically if you don't have a sicker on your desh saying when you left, they can persume it's longer then fifthteen minutes.

Nietzschean

are you sure it doesn't have to be staff? random people being allowed to move stuff leads to an awefully odd question of liability.... who's responsibile if something goes missing? you were authorised to move the stuff by the lib...so if something fell out its not your fault type stuff

Boston

Darth Bobo wrote:

are you sure it doesn't have to be staff? random people being allowed to move stuff leads to an awefully odd question of liability.... who's responsibile if something goes missing? you were authorised to move the stuff by the lib...so if something fell out its not your fault type stuff

Notices up in library saying you shouldn't leave your stuff there, therefore if you do it's at your own risk, and neither the next person at the desk nor the libery is liable. Also none of the signs about the 15 minute rule mention library staff, they just say you can take the seat.

sleepingbeauty

Darthsomething.. wrote:

apparently maths or some class had exams 3 days in a row...which i imagine is worse...

i think chemistry people had like 4 days in a row which is crazy :eek: think tps may have had similar...anyway yeah not nice!!

Kevin_rc_ie

who's darthsomething?

i'm confused.

Nietzschean

sleepingbeauty wrote:

i think chemistry people had like 4 days in a row which is crazy :eek: think tps may have had similar...anyway yeah not nice!!

Yeah if i got that ever i'd probally fail half the exam i need my cramming time

Nietzschean

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

who's darthsomething?

i'm confused.

Please tell me thats scarcasm.

Kevin_rc_ie

nope. but i understand. how i got confused:

i didnt read darth bobo's bit about the chemistry exams in a row.
I assumed sb wouldn't have edited the tags herself so i was looking for someone called Darthsomething.

maybe i am dumb.

sleepingbeauty

yeah i couldnt really remember what it was and i was too lazy to scroll..oh so tired..
sorry if i confused ya there kev

Nietzschean

sleepingbeauty wrote:

yeah i couldnt really remember what it was and i was too lazy to scroll..oh so tired..
sorry if i confused ya there kev

Poor lil babies......


Whats the story with last bus from heuston being at 22:15 while the last train is in at 22:30?!....

I assume lib is closed on monday?

ApeXaviour

Darth Bobo wrote:

Whats the story with last bus from heuston being at 22:15 while the last train is in at 22:30?!....

This is strange because...?

Nietzschean

ApeXaviour wrote:

This is strange because...?

Because my train will arrive into heuston at 22:30 tomorrow night , and i'll be stuck getting one of those stupid luas yokes prolly into town...... Bus would leave me off outside tcd(and is free with me ticket)...