{"id":234,"date":"2019-12-15T22:24:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2021-12-26T21:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T21:57:44","slug":"library-jokes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/activities\/library-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Library jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chicken walks into a library. It goes up to the circulation desk and says: &#8220;book, book, book, boook&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The librarian hands the chicken a book. It tucks it under its wing and runs out.<\/p>\n<p>A while later, the chicken runs back in, puts the first book onto the counter and looks at the librarian again saying: &#8220;book, bok, bok, bok, boook&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Again the librarian gives it a book, and the chicken runs out. The librarian shakes her head, wondering what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>Within a few minutes, the chicken is back, returns the book and starts all over again: &#8220;boook, book, bok bok boook&#8221;. The librarian gives it a third book, but this time as the chicken is running out the door, she follows it.<\/p>\n<p>The chicken runs down the street, through the park and down to the riverbank. There, sitting on a lily pad is a massive, green frog. The chicken holds up the book and shows it to the frog, saying: &#8220;Book, bok, bok, boook&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The frog blinks, and croaks: &#8220;read-it, read-it, read-it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Did you hear about the Librarian who slipped beside the shelves?<\/strong><strong>She was in the non-friction section.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>An astronaut was invited to a party where she met an author.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I took your last book into space!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow!&#8221; said the author, &#8220;What did you think of it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was wonderful,&#8221; replied the astronaut, &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t put it down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s a Librarian&#8217;s favourite food?<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Ssshushi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>(Courtesy of Thomas, age 7)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>What is the tallest building?<br \/>\nThe library cos it has most stories.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Why does Bilbo Baggins always have his lunch at noon.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cos he&#8217;s a creature of hobbit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Why was the vampire in the library?<br \/>\nHe wanted to sink his teeth into a really good book!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Why did nobody break into the library? <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The thieves were afraid of long sentences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>What do you call a dragon with heartburn?<br \/>\nBad news for the nearest village.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Why did Dracula not mind the doctor looking at his throat?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Because of the coffin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Why was the dinosaur reading?<br \/>\nBecause he was a Bronte-saurus.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Why did the Librarian keep buying books?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>He had no shelf-control.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Why does an elephant use its trunk as a bookmark?<br \/>\nSo it nose where it stopped reading<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Why are there no blue books? <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Because they&#8217;re all read.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>What did Shakespeare write for Halloween?<br \/>\nA Midsummer&#8217;s Night Scream.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I ordered a new thesaurus for the Library, but when it arrived all the pages were blank!<\/p>\n<p>I have no words to describe how angry I am.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Courtesy of Laura, age 21)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Why did the bookworm visit the Library?<\/p>\n<p>Because he wanted to burrow a book.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chicken walks into a library. It goes up to the circulation desk and says: &#8220;book, book, book, boook&#8221;. The librarian hands the chicken a book. It tucks it under its wing and runs out. A while later, the chicken runs back in, puts the first book onto the counter and looks at the librarian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/activities\/library-jokes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Library jokes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":0,"parent":175,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions\/3045"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}