Some of nation’s best libraries have books bound in human skin

eyewitnessnewstv.com ^ | 1/7/06 | AP

[muir_redwoods]

"“People kept their family histories written in Bibles, and what is a Quran?” she said."

It ain't a Bible

[humblegunner]

raYea spanish people are so sadistic. think before your write.

Were you thinking when you wrote raYea or when you failed to capitalize spanish or think?

Perhaps you were thinking when you misused your?

Does mommy know you are using her computer?

[nmh]

EW and shivers too!

[moog]

him to cuban--Does mommy know you are using her computer?

SHHHH.... she's not supposed to find out. She'd skin my alive if she ever found out I was using her precious computer.

[moog]

him to cuban--Does mommy know you are using her computer?

Correction

SHHHH.... she's not supposed to find out. She'd skin ME alive if she ever found out I was using her precious computer.

[Stentor]

Conscience? No, we have to kill our entire souls before we can complete our first year.

If you're going to be a lawyer, why stop at your soul?

[StarCMC]

While human leather may be repulsive to contemporary society, libraries can ethically have the books in their collections if they are used respectfully for academic research and not displayed as objects of curiosity, says Paul Wolpe of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sorry, but for some reason I found that funny.

[moog]

Kind of stretches things a little.

[StarCMC]

LOL!!

[JubJub]

Michael Moore's skin will be sold by the yard with an average width of 80 inches.

[moog]

Sorry about that. I am in one of my "morbid" moods today.

[grey_whiskers]

Index --index finger? Coincidence? I think not. And don't even get me started on footnotes...

For full details, see the Appendix.

Cheers!

[applpie]

it is pretty evil too. dead or not. a human body should be respected not ripped apart for commerce...oh, i forgot, we do that all the time today to dead children. obviously this concept of utilitarianism is yet another idea that must have come out of our enlightenment. hey but if it is not YOUR body, then who cares what happens to them. right?

its no wonder god sent a flood.

[JubJub]

What about the guts of the story?

[Clemenza]

Spaniards and Cubans are OK. Puerto Ricans and Dominicans on the other hand...

[toddlintown]

So if you rub a small book covered in foreskin, does it turn into an encyclopedia?

[manwiththehands]

I'm not at all advocating book burning of any kind ... but this is SICK.

It wreaks of cannibalism.

I thought I lived in a civilized society.

(erp!)

[moog]

Didn't know you could measure that.

[grey_whiskers]

Let me abo's go loose, Bruce,
let me abo's go loose
they're of no further use, Bruce

so let me abo's go loose

(all together now)

Tie me Kangaroo Down, Sport
Tie me Kangaroo Down!
Tie me Kangaroo Down, Sport
Tie me Kangaroo Down!

Cheers!

[The Cuban]

Listen you dimwitted fool, think before you write.