For Our Favorite Librarian

I read this earlier and couldn’t help sharing it here… well I guess I could have resisted the urge but why? It’s pretty funny in a weird way – and I’m good with that!

So Tim – this is for you…

Oh – Yeah, you have to replace the “she” in this joke with “he“– the “he” being Tim. It’s really not that difficult, I think we can pull it off but you have to use a little imagination.

Once again…this is for you Tim…


A librarian is working away at her desk when she notices that a chicken has come into the library and is patiently waiting in front of the desk. When the chicken sees that it has the librarian's attention, it squawks, "Book, book, book, BOOK!" The librarian complies, putting a couple of books down in front of the chicken. The chicken quickly grabs them and disappears. The next day, the librarian is again disturbed by the same chicken, who puts the previous day's pile of books down on the desk and again squawks, "Book, book, book, BOOK!" The librarian shakes her head, wondering what the chicken is doing with these books, but eventually finds some more books for the chicken. The chicken disappears. The next day, the librarian is once again disturbed by the chicken, who squawks (in a rather irritated fashion, it seems), "Book, book, book, BOOK!" By now, the librarian's curiosity has gotten the better of her, so she gets a pile of books for the chicken, and follows the bird when it leaves the library. She follows it through the parking lot, down the street for several blocks, and finally into a large park. The chicken disappears into a small grove of trees, and the librarian follows. On the other side of the trees is a small marsh. The chicken has stopped on the side of the marsh. The librarian, now really curious, hurries over and sees that there is a small frog next to the chicken, examining each book, one at a time. The librarian comes within earshot just in time to hear the frog saying, "Read it, read it, read it..."


I could’ve altered the joke by inserting Tim into it myself, but I think we would all agree that we need the opportunity to exercise our imaginations from time to time – and it’s just funnier this way.


By the way – I hope there are no rules against putting “fowl” jokes on our church blog-site or I’m in a lot of trouble. :p