Greatest Books Not Written: NATIONS IN GREATNESS

Canadian Tips on World Dominance

A Guide to Arab Democracies

Fat-free Indian Cooking

English Tanning Secrets

A Guide to Swiss Beaches

Spicy Irish Cooking

Brilliant Spanish Military Campaigns

Great Cars of Russia

Advances in Chinese Human Rights

French Hospitality

Weird Questions Asked Of Librarians
"Do you have that book by Rushdie: 'Satanic Nurses'?"

"Where is the reference desk?" This was asked of a person sitting at a desk who had, hanging above her head, a sign saying "REFERENCE DESK"!

"Do you have a list of all the books written in the English language?"

"I was here about three weeks ago looking at a cookbook that cost $39.95. Do you know which one it is?"

"Can you tell me why so many famous Civil War battles were fought on National Park sites?"

"Do you have any books with photographs of dinosaurs?"

"I need a color photograph of George Washington [Columbus, Moses, Socrates, etc.] for a school paper I'm writing."

"I need a photocopy of Abraham Lincoln's birth certificate."

"Do you have a list of all the books I've ever read?"

"I need to find out Ibid's first name for my bibliography."

"Why don't you have any books by Ibid? He's written a lot of important books!"

"I am looking for a list of laws that I can break that would send me back to jail for a couple of months."

An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final exam after a semester dealing with a broad array of topics.

The class was already seated and ready to go when the professor picked up his chair, plopped it on top of his desk and wrote on the board:

"Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist."

Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in furious fashion.

Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting to refute the existence of the chair.

One member of the class however, was up and finished in less than a minute.

Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the group wondered how he could have gotten an "A"" when he had barely written anything at all.

His answer consisted of two words:

"What chair?"