Today was a bad day. Why? I went to Barnes and Noble and:

a) The Universe: 365 Days was there. I took it to the counter and found out that I was one dollar short! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

b) I found a copy of We Never Went to the Moon wedged between Flight: My Life in Mission Control and A Man on the Moon. THAT BOOK DOES NOT BELONG IN THE SCIENCE SECTION! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

Sorry, I've had an exhausting week and this just caps it off.

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"Too low they build, who build beneath the stars". - Edward Young, 1745

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!?? SCUM OF THE EARTH, THE SOLAR SYSTEM, THE MILKY WAY AND THE ENTIRE PIGEONIFIED UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can we think of some way to blame anti-nukyular protestors for this act of evil?

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Yes - the radiation from nuclear reactors has baked the brains of the bookstore management so that they are unable to think logically.

Um, we want to blame anti-nukyular protestors.

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Lack of radiation from the sun has caused the bookstore management's salads to wilt, thus depriving their brains of essential nutrients?

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That could work.

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How about...

Because the anti-nukyular protestors have stopped us from replacing coal plants with nuclear plants, the radiation released from coal plants baked the brains of the bookstore workers.

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Yes, that's what I'm talking about.

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That or the soot from the coal and oil powered plants blocks just enough sunlight that someone couldn't really see what (s)he was doing the day the placed the book.

Say no more...I've had run-ins with Barnes and Nobel myself.

Recently, in the science section I found something titled "The Martian Mystery", authored by someone named Graham Hancock (or something like that). It was all about the Mars face..blah, blah, blah.

I've told the management before (when I've found mis-filed books) that it makes them look foolish to have pseudo-science books in the science section, but they just don't seem to care.

So instead of wasteing my time talking with the manager I did the right thing. I carefully took "The Martian Mystery" over to the "new age" section and stuck it right next to "Dark Moon". It fit there rather nicely.

Well, not to gloat, (:roll: ) but, I found The Universe: 365 Days at my local booksellers, and kind of drooled over it for about two weeks before actually buying it. I couldn't believe it was still on the shelf. Perhaps the drool marks put other potential buyers off.

Is that what those were? Eeewww.... I didn't want to touch them... :P

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Sorry, Canuck.

Hey, after the Tim's incident, it's not a problem...

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You've got to hand it to their persistence. I've seen creationist flyers shoved in between copies of Gould's and other evolution books at our local book stores. One time a prayer book was moved into the evolution section from the religion section of the store.

I wonder how often rational science minded folk think to do that sort of nonsense?

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That was going to be my suggestion, take the book out, look at it in another section, and out of kindness for the hardworking employees, reshellf it in the sci-fi section...or it might be better to shelf it in some section that no-one looks in, such as "Canada"...runs and hides from all the Canadians...I love you and your beautiful country.

This is a big step for me, suggesting that you shelf something where it does not belong, it irks me when I cannot find what I am looking for, but then again, I do not suppose that there is a "real" place for that kind of trash...hey maybe

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Couldn't come with any other "appropriate" choises.

You could use it to replace the now defunct Sears and Roebuck catalogues that once graced the outdoor facilities in rural areas.

There is hope. In my local branch of Blackwells, "The Stargate Conspiracy" and "God and the Evolving Universe" are prominently on display... in the Mythology section, either side of "The Oxford Campanion to Fairy Tales".

The Stargate Conspiracy? Is that one of those nutters who think the stargate is actually real?

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You mean like these nutters?