LOL! My wife just got back from volunteering at a library book sale

[Xipe Totec]

At the end of the day any used books that did not find a new owner ended up going to the mulcher.

She watched intently all day long to see if a particular set of books piqued anyone's interest.


But no. Not a single person showed any interest in these books, despite the attractive slender blond decorating the covers.

At the end of the day, she watched with amusement as every single Anne Coulter book went into the mulcher to be composted.

I hope the earthworms don't get indigestion.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. What a great use for those... um....."books"!

[left on green only]

2. Did She Mention If There Were Also Any Books By Caribou Barbie?

You have to wonder what all of this means for the karma of the person who donated the books?

[Scarsdale]

41. $arah PayMe

Her books are stacked in her garage, waiting for when tRump picks her as VP, then they will sell like hotcakes! Yeah, right.

[NBachers]

3. I loved reading this post, and it gave me the best laugh of the day.

Let's hear it for worm fodder. I'm working on leaving a nice, juicy carcass for them.

OK, here's a good business op - I don't see any entries for "worm composting coffin" in Google.

[Hekate]

12. The kind of coffin you mention can be had from...

...whoever makes coffins for Orthodox Jews. They are simple pine boxes and iirc from my late father in law's funeral, there are holes drilled in the bottom. The body is being returned to the Earth, not preserved in a hermetically sealed environment like an Egyptian mummy.

Plan ahead!

[NBachers]

14. Never too early to start your own self-composting worm colony.

The care you show your worms will be returned to you in the afterlife.

OK- Back to Ann Coulter . . .

[freshwest]

57. Also, there is the practice of placing (in our case) rounded river stones on my FNL's marker.

He was the only one from his family to escape the plan for them in Poland. I researched trying to find anyone else who escaped. We never did. He adored me and my cooking and we loved him.

[Hekate]

59. I hope the family stories are never forgotten, as that generation fades into history.

[TexasTowelie]

4. Don't lie in your OPs!

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but saying that Ann Coulter is attractive is a stretch.

[Xipe Totec]

6. She is attractive, in an Afghan Hound sort of way

[TexasTowelie]

7. Now why would you do that to such a noble creature that has done no harm to you?

I'm referring to the dog, not Coulter.

I actually have another callous remark in mind, but I don't want to get a hide for mentioning that word on DU.

[awoke_in_2003]

28. My grandfather had one of those

Fast as lighting and could go over a 6 foot fence like it wasn't there.

[L0oniX]

48. LMFAO

[Stargazer09]

50. That's a BEAUTIFUL dog!

There is nothing beautiful about Ann Coulter.

[valerief]

53. Afghan hounds are attractive. Coulter is slime. nt

[bobclark86]

55. Hahaha!

It's funny because it's her appearance that is all that matters...

Oh, silly women and trying to have ideas ... smh

[Spazito]

5. LOL!

Finally, her pathetic books are being put to good use!

[merrily]

8. Coulter is the only case of voter fraud I know of.

[NJCher]

9. good one

I hope the earthworms don't get indigestion.




Cher

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. It's a shame to let Anne Coulter's books go to waste

Aren't there people in some poor third world countries that could always use a little more toilet paper?

[csziggy]

13. They'd be too irritating for use as toilet paper

[progressoid]

20. Exactly.

I'd rather use switch grass.

[csziggy]

22. I'd rather use poison ivy! nt

[Eleanors38]

61. Holy itch, Fatman!

[MisterP]

11. they're put out by vanity publishers, bought in bulk with Scaife money to put them on the lists,

sold for 5-for-$1 on WND, and then pulped

it's the perfect astroturf: nobody has to even read it

[treestar]

51. Yet it gets her on the TV shows

to spout her poison.

[farmbo]

56. And she used to get listed as a New York Times "best seller"...

... until the Times called BS on the process:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/07/nyt-wont-put-ted-cruz-on-the-bestseller-list.html

[Thespian2]

15. Great!

Always good to see some works getting their just deserts...mulch that I wouldn't put on my garden..

[lastlib]

16. Recommended use for that mulch is any spot in your yard......

...where you have grubs. Kills 'em & then you won't have any moles. Repels armadillos, too! (Using one leprosy-bearing critter to repel another! Brillliant, Kronsteen!)

[SCantiGOP]

17. Folks will wish they had those

When she becomes President Trump's VP

[mgardener]

18. Sarah Palin too!

Last edited Sun Aug 16, 2015, 07:29 AM - Edit history (1)

When our Borders was going out of business, there was a table piled high with Palin books. They could not get rid of them, even for a dollar.
So much for best selling author.

[Xipe Totec]

23. It turns out, there were Sara Palin books as well, and also George and Barbara Bush

None of those were spared from the compost.

Dilbert on the other hand did find a new owner.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

19. Thank you! You have no idea how happy that made me.

[MrModerate]

21. They'll probably decompose quite quickly . . .

Being pretty close to fertilizer to start with.

[treestar]

52. lol nt

[carolinayellowdog]

24. as a retired public librarian, I'll offer some even better news

the books that end up in these sales are normally those that have not been checked out FOR YEARS

[Scarsdale]

42. Not checked out in years?

Much like Coulter and PayMe themselves.

[Xipe Totec]

63. I thank you for your service!

I've spent many a pleasant day browsing through books at the public library.

[kairos12]

25. Her books leave mulch to be desired.

[japple]

27. Yes they do...and thank you so mulch for posting

that! Had a good laugh on you.

[Xipe Totec]

30. Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end?

Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to aggravate thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.

Shakespeare - Sonnet CXLVI

[Spitfire of ATJ]

26. I went to a "buck a bag" sale in Fullerton....

Big old paper grocery bags hold a LOT of books but the stuff from Limbaugh remained.

The ONLY way these books sell is from bulk sales. A right-wing publisher sells by the case to a right-wing distributor to try to get on the NYT Bestseller List. Then places like Newsmax or WND offer the books free if you pay for your bubble world.

[Enthusiast]

32. +100%!

[catrose]

29. HA!

I thought she was going to snatch some worthy but neglected books from the jaws of the mulcher. It's terribly hard for me to watch books destroyed, even if I'm not going to read them.

Naw. Not in this case.

[Liberal_in_LA]

31. lol

[Iwillnevergiveup]

33. And if a mulcher isn't handy

Coulter/O'Lieley/Limbaugh/Hannity ghost-written claptrap can always be rearranged on book shelves so they're not seen.

[herding cats]

34. Normally the destruction of books hurts my heart.

In this case it seems proper for them to become fodder for bacteria.

Decomposition does have a cathartic effect in this particular instance. Perhaps something good and pure can sprout from the compost of of an Anne Coulter book? Stranger things have happened in this world!

[3catwoman3]

35. This delightful story...

...totally makes my day.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

36. Well thats just great!! Some poor soul is gonna be accosted daily by their suddenly insipid and...

...obnoxiously petulant garden!

[nxylas]

37. As a bibliophile, the thought of any book going into a mulcher saddens me a little

But in this case, only a little. Was there no conservative book club that could have bought up all the copies?

[cantbeserious]

38. The Worms Will Be Grateful - As Are The Humans That Don't Have To Read Those Books

eom

[Fearless]

39. Defiitely not attractive!

[fadedrose]

40. I almost got very sad

about those poor books, and your slow painful telling of their outcome was enough to ruin my day wondering what is wrong with these people...

Then the name of the author rings a big bell with a very happy sound in my head...Anne Coulter.

The books were glad to be mulched to do some good and hide their shame.

Thank your wife for us.

[tanyev]

43. My library in deep red country had their big book sale last weekend and I too can report

a plethora of Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, and various other RW books out on the tables. A few were weeded from the library collection, as mentioned by a retired librarian above, but I'd say the majority of them came from donations the library system collects throughout the year. People around here know that they can donate all the books they no longer want to the library and they will either add them to the collection (rarely), sell them at the book sale (mostly), or dispose of them properly (frequently).

[mdbl]

44. I would have bought them for the mulcher

along with limpballs, and any other right wing nut's book.

[JayhawkSD]

45. "...despite the attractive slender blond decorating the covers."

Who did the books have on the covers? And if they were written either by or about Ann Coulter why didn't they put Anne Coulter on the cover?

Oh, wait. You mean you think the scrawny, skeleton faced bitch is an "attractive slender blond." I can recommend a good eye surgeon.

[Xipe Totec]

60. Give the devil her due. The reason she became the darling of the right,

Is because neocons love a pretty blond that talks dirty.

To deny her beauty is to lose credibility; to attack her for being a woman.

Her flaws are not with her physique. They are with her thoughts, politics, and words.

[Demeter]

46. I was going to ask how many shelves of books she brought home--but yours is better!

[denvine]

47. Great post!

It put a smile on my face. Hopefully the composted pages aren't as toxic as Ann Coulter!

[mtasselin]

49. hope

I hope the earth worms don't get sick from eating them I feel that I am getting sick just seeing her name.

[OldRedneck]

54. Should NOT compost Anne Coulter books

They need to go to a place that deals with toxic waste.

[azurnoir]

58. maybe the title for her next book could be-from my keyboard to a worm's butt

[Eleanors38]

62. Jeeesus. The thought process I just went through.

[ladyVet]

64. The earthworms may die, but they will be remembered always in my heart as martyrs.

Oddly enough, it seems the thrift stores around here can't sell the damn things either. You'd think all the poor folks who can't live without their Confederate flags would snatch up cheap books by their idols, but no.

Sends me to my happy place, it does.