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Alternatively: if there was no internet, I'd be answering reference questions with awful one-use print resources like the Congressional Yearbook and the Hoover's Handbook of American Business and the goddamn Criss Cross Directory, instead of just googling that shit.
Like, last week I was asked whether the "Hidden Valley" in Hidden Valley ranch dressing is a real place, and if that's where it was invented. If there's no internet, that dumb question is my whole morning.
(Also, the answer is yes it is, and yes it was.)
As a DC tour guide, it’s amazing the details I get wrong for years and nobody ever calls out. You can just make stuff up and people won’t even google it much less check your citations.
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I actually wouldn't mind doing reference questions the old fashioned way. One time our catalog was down for a week at the public library and I got really good using an old Sear's Subject Heading Catalog to find books for people or finding books to then help people.
Alternatively: if there was no internet, I'd be answering reference questions with awful one-use print resources like the Congressional Yearbook and the Hoover's Handbook of American Business and the goddamn Criss Cross Directory, instead of just googling that shit.
Like, last week I was asked whether the "Hidden Valley" in Hidden Valley ranch dressing is a real place, and if that's where it was invented. If there's no internet, that dumb question is my whole morning.
(Also, the answer is yes it is, and yes it was.)
As a DC tour guide, it’s amazing the details I get wrong for years and nobody ever calls out. You can just make stuff up and people won’t even google it much less check your citations.
Did you know that Napoleon Bonaparte invented the fiddle?
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Also cute animal compilations.
Hey, all you Yes voters, click through and regret your vote. This beautiful thing never would have happened without the internet.
As a DC tour guide, it’s amazing the details I get wrong for years and nobody ever calls out. You can just make stuff up and people won’t even google it much less check your citations.
It was like a mystery.
Did you know that Napoleon Bonaparte invented the fiddle?
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Is that a TV show thread?
In any case, vote reaffirmed
I have detailed files
NO FATE
See, the person with internet access is way happier than the person without.
On second thought, fuck the Internet
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That person hasn't yet read the comments
It was the only one I could find and wasn't sure what the source was
But yeah, people stealing art on the internet is a big problem.
also the joke looks like a toothpaste for dinner comic
I ain't gonna razz on Stig for not knowing the name of a specific webcomic. Ain't all of us full of useless trivia like that.
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It is ok not to be obsessively familiar with various webcomics
Another reason why the internet was a mistake
List of deleted wikipedia articles with freaky titles