Comments on: Hopping Gangman Style @ Your Library

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:55:50 +0000

You do realize it’s Gangnam, not Gangman, right?

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:26:54 +0000

Uh, I’m 43 and I look pretty darn good. There is beauty after 30.

By: me

me — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:45:33 +0000

@ de la Tour d’Auvergne

What a diatribe. People in Alabama don’t have teeth.

By: DevelopmentArrested

DevelopmentArrested — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:08:49 +0000

This sounds surprisingly like my failed pilot for an NBC sitcom. Billing it as a least marketable Community was probably the wrong way to go.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:55:35 +0000

It is actually Gangnam Style. (Not gangman.)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gangnam%20Style

By: UK Wildcat

UK Wildcat — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:31:33 +0000

That’s almost as funny as the tradition at Kentucky’s Willy T Young library when someone rappels from the 5th floor during finals.

By: de la Tour d'Auvergne fan

de la Tour d'Auvergne fan — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:24:41 +0000

On the subject of where librarians tend to fall in on the attractiveness scale…

There are plenty of good looking female librarians to be found in, for example…..ALABAMA.

Said it before, will say it again, ’cause it’s still true:

AL knows such and is likely jealous of said librarian-hotties’ ability to get the .05% of LibraryLand that are good-looking single straight men…such is part of what fuels her Alabamaphobia.

Last time I mentioned this she soooo quickly tried to quip back with how she doesn’t date librarians. Who knows maybe she doesn’t. Bet she still does that little compete-for-attention thing though for the one decent-looking straight dude at conferences though Ego-trippin’ is a b****, aint it, AL?

I remember your Halloween costume post of a few years ago. Hah. Like you know the half of it? Again, who knows though – maybe you do. Gotta allow the possibility since we’re living in that great realm known as Pseudonymia.

By: UMD Librarian

UMD Librarian — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:52:33 +0000

I work at Maryland and that video did indeed come out of the library (good job spotting our dean, btw!) I think the big difference is that it came from one of the undergrad students who works in the library — he thought up the idea of a Gangam Style flashmob in/at the library, put out the invitation and relentlessly beat the drum to get his peers to show up. Our Communications people were on hand to direct and film the action, but the student did all the final editing of the video. I was afraid it would come out like one of those lame “hey we’re cool too” videos, but was very pleased with the finished product. Glad you liked it too!

By: The Librarian With No Name

The Librarian With No Name — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:34:46 +0000

One of our local public libraries had a pretty good showing in a recent OKC Thunder video. The video was a montage of the mascot (a buffalo, sadly, not some anthropomorphic cloud or lightning bolt) dancing in front of various local landmarks with a boom box.

The segment at the library ended with one of the circulation clerks shushing him and then dragging him out of the library by his ear.

Take THAT, edgy young stereotype-breaking librarians.

By: Get A Clue

Get A Clue — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:08:29 +0000

Oh dear God we can’t even get students to turn off their damn cell phones. They are NOT bringing marching bands into the library.

Shhhhhh.