Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
From: fmanning@my-deja.com (Frank Manning)
Subject: Libraries? Still Useful?
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 19:30:00 PDT

True story. Today I happened to be in a library. You know -- the big
room with lots of books and no people, as Uncle Al would say.

I was reading a magazine and came across an unfamiliar
word. "Grubstake."

I decided to look it up. Without thinking I automatically wrote it down
on a piece of scrap paper, intending to go home later and look it up on
the Internet.

Did I mention I was in a library?

It suddenly dawned on me. I thought, "Wait a minute, you idiot! You're
in a LIBRARY for God's sake! Do you realize what that means?"

"That means they have terminals with FREE INTERNET ACCESS! I can use a
terminal right here!"

Only then, of course, did it occur to me to use an actual paper
dictionary.