This is what will happen to Solly one day, I'm afraid.

[Rubia Warren]

Books trap man for three days
April 22, 2003

A CROATIAN professor spent three days trapped under a pile of books in his apartment in Zagreb before being saved by a neighbour who heard his cries for help, a local daily reported.

The unfortunate 60-year-old mathematics professor, identified only by his initials DK, spent the Easter weekend lying helplessly on the floor, trapped between a bed and a book-case under a pile of books that fell on him, the Jutarnji List daily reported.

The neighbour who called the police and paramedics told the daily that the professor's apartment was very untidy, "filled up with books, tapes, furniture and food".

"It looked like a real rubbish dump," he said, adding it was hard to imagine how the rather corpulent professor, weighing about 120kg, could freely move around in it.

He was treated for exhaustion and dehydration in his apartment by the paramedics and recovered enough to refuse hospital treatment.

Agence France-Presse


:teeth: :lol: :rofl:

[GrayPilgrim]

See the pen can be mightier than the sword.

[Patroclus]

Another reason to paper backs. They weigh so much less.

[Solly]

:rofl:

If only I had that many. I actually have to prune my collection from time to time or the missus get's annoyed, and I can't by anymore. Check my journal for latest acquisitions...

[Rubia Warren]

I DID see your journal yesterday.... then when I saw this article, I immediately thought of you!!!! Hahaha That is too funny.

[Solly]

:hrm:

Laughing at my expense? On my birthday?

[Rubia Warren]

Oh, yeah! It was your birthday, that's right! Go Solly.....go Solly.........it's your birthday......uh-huh..........you know it.........go Solly......it's your thang......

[Solly]

:hrm:

I am Reformed. I don't dance. Just nod gently.

[Solly]

Btw Rubi, has your avatar just found the hairball in the plughole?

[The Curtmudgeon]

Today @ 02:12 AM Solly:

:rofl:

If only I had that many. I actually have to prune my collection from time to time or the missus get's annoyed, and I can't by anymore. Check my journal for latest acquisitions...

Hah, Solly! I'm up on you then--yet another advantage to having gotten my "divorce" before I was actually married. :eek: I'm not sure of an exact count anymore, but I know its well up in the thousands. They've taken over not only the second bedroom (which they're forced to share with the computer), but my own bedroom as well, not to mention a few smallish stacks in the living room.

Anyway, unlike the Croatian prof, I've actually learned about both bookshelves and boxes, so I'm not in much danger of being attacked by my books (unless Texas finally has an earthquake, or one of our resident tornadoes pays a visit).

The (but moving around the apartment is an artform!) Curtmudgeon

[djnoz]

Today @ 01:56 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=77434#post77434)
Solly:

:hrm:

I am Reformed. I don't dance. Just nod gently.

Solly, that's mine, you thief. (yoda animation) :rofl: j/k of course :teeth:

That article was pretty funny anyway... I've got a friend from church who belongs to the Tolkien society and has an entire bookcase (floor to ceiling) filled with Tolkien books. That's just the beginning, there are bookcases in every room and one room contains about 8 large cardboard boxes, also filled with books. I don't think anyone would ever beat that family in book collecting. I envy him though - one day I when I am older I plan the same kind of collection - I am still young at the moment.

[Jaltus]

The president of Southern Baptist Seminary has 10,000 volumes in his basement alone.

I am still looking to break 900 myself. I probably will this summer. I estimate around 850 right now.

[GrayPilgrim]

I think I've broken the 1,000 mark.

[Pereynol of Sheer Dread]

Solly,
Happy birthday!
(A day late, but better late than not...):cheers:

[Sher]

pish ... ya lightweights :teeth: I can't even count my books, we have so many ... sigh ... but the computer seems to drag me away more often than not nowadays.

[Solly]

There was a man from the last century, S M Houghton by name. He was collecting Puritan works when nobody else wanted them, in the first half of the 20th century. He had so many books in his house (and you know what Puritan tomes can be like), they had to put up pillars downstairs to strengthen the top floor.

[DanielleJoy]

Man I miss the ten cent book sales at Goodwill... those were the days...