Brickbat: Though This Be Madness

Mark Forsyth was working in the British Library and wanted to check a line from "Hamlet." However, when he tried to access an online version of the play, the library's wi-fi system blocked it because of its violent content. Library officials say they have received complaints about other sites that have been improperly blocked and are working on the issue.

Comments

[Dave Krueger]

Hopefully they blocked the Bible, too. Very gruesome.

[sarcasmic]

Know what the most stolen book is in the US? That's right. The Bible.

[invisible furry hand]

I just steal it for the articles

[SugarFree]

It's only because the paper is thin enough to be used to roll joints.

[sarcasmic]

I actually tried that once. Didn't work as well as advertized.

[Swiss Servator - past LTC(ret)]

The Gideons are on to you!

[sarcasmic]

I'm scared.

[SugarFree]

Did you trim off the gilt edges? Because that's the part that gets you like all, whoa dude.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Library officials say they have received complaints about other sites that have been improperly blocked and are working on the issue.

They've sealed up the slot on the complaint box.

[MappRapp]

Joe Darn Diddy is not gonna like that.

http://www.World-Privacy.com

[Fist of Etiquette]

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous surveillance, or to take up arms against a sea of spammage, and by opposing, block them...

[invisible furry hand]

Get thee to a nunnery

[UnCivilServant]

I discovered that they were still gender segregated, and they tried to send me to a monastary. I didn't have the heart to tell them I wasn't there to join the church.

[John C. Randolph]

First thing we do, is kill all the spammers.

-jcr

[Almanian!]

Out, out damned Bot!

[Mainer2]

I el-oh-el'd

[Eduard van Haalen]

+1

[UnCivilServant]

I would be annoyed, but I stopped going to the local library when it started resembling a coffee shop. Oh, and when they got rid of the interesting books in favor of tripe.

[PS]

What, frighted with false firewall?

[SugarFree]

I have heard of your trollings too, well enough; Google
has given you one email address, and you make yourselves
another: you whine, you grief, and you sockpupp't, and
nick-name Matt's creatures, and make your partisan-ness
your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath
made u mad bro. I say, we will have no more redefined marriages:
those that are redefined already, all but one, shall
be banned; the rest shall keep as they are. To a
beautiful bean footage, go.

[invisible furry hand]

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

[BakedPenguin]

Though this be madness, yet there is trolling in it.

[Swiss Servator - past LTC(ret)]

*begins standing ovation*

[SugarFree]

My absent editor forces me to amend the last lines to:

To the
beautiful bean footage, roll.

[grumble]

[Gozer the Gozerian]

How all libraries do inform against me...

[Geoff Nathan]

You guys oughta be working for TheOnion or something--it's rare you can all make me giggle at 10 in the morning.
Well played!

[Eduard van Haalen]

The last time the British Library gave unrestricted access, Marx wrote *Das Kapital."

He mostly spent his time looking up *Fanny Hill,* *Saucy Wench Quarterly,* and Jane Austen's often-overlooked *Mr. Darcy and Emma's Spanfest.*

[Eduard van Haalen]

Spankfest

[Eduard van Haalen]

Also, Bourgeois Babes in Bondage.

[Eduard van Haalen]

And The Coming of the Proletarians - With the Assistance of the Vanguard