this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago

You need some serious pattern recognition skill to come up with this idea.

[–] mypasswordis1234 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The guy that downvoted was the librarian

[–] uis 9 points 1 year ago

Such librarian should be Twilight Sparkle

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Is it me or does this "World book" have a lot of US personalities on its spine?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For anyone wondering, the books that are turned around on the right are the bottom part of the L and two right thirds of the O's.

[–] V0lD 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's what it's called according to the caption 🤷

[–] corus_kt 23 points 1 year ago

It's a memory from a long time ago - but I remember you can arrange this into ROBODICK

[–] Whirling_Cloudburst 21 points 1 year ago

Did the artist that did this sign their name?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

2 of my friends are librarians. It was 100% the librarians who did that.

[–] Coreidan 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Stamau123 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Better than two in the bush

[–] MBZzZzZzZz 3 points 1 year ago

Don't mess with the cobck is what my polish granny would always say.

[–] Kyyrypyy 7 points 1 year ago

Now I have an urge to write a series of non-fiction books and name them with "subject within the overalltopic, Part N", so that if you arrange them from part 1 to tge last,part the spines spell the name of the series, but if you order them alphabetically, the spines spells something hilariously profane.

[–] psmgx 5 points 1 year ago

Dudes assuming this was a library employee who did this.

I totally would then blame some teen