I'll throw you a bone.

[Shockeye]

Smelly Readers Banned From Calif. Library

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - A new county law aims to keep readers from reeking.

Libraries in San Luis Obispo County have had their own rules banning offensive body odor since 1994, but the policy became law after the Board of Supervisors last month adopted an ordinance that lets authorities kick out malodorous guests.

Visitors to 14 libraries and a bookmobile also could be asked to leave for fighting, eating, drinking, sleeping, playing games, and printing or viewing illegal materials on library computers.

"The point is to make the library a comfortable, safe place for everyone to use," said Moe McGee, assistant director of the San Luis Obispo City-County Library.

A strict code of conduct, officials argue, is needed to ensure one patron's right to use a public library doesn't infringe on the rights of another.

Yet the law can raise tough questions for librarians, said Irene Macias, Santa Barbara's library services manager.

"What is bad odor?" Macias asked. "A woman who wears a strong perfume? A person who had a garlicky meal?"

[Paelos]

Hmmm, it's the "Keep the bums out of the library law." It would be against the law to toss them out for just being there, so instead they isolate the odor and use that as a reason. Nice end-around.

[stray]

Deodorant sucks.

I've been using deodorant for the past couple of days because I made the mistake of thinking it was anti-perspirant. Gotta head back to the store.

Why do they even make this stuff? I don't see the use of it.

[Strazos]

Yeah, that Axe stuff isn't antiperspirant I believe. I use to try and use unodored Sure and the Axe....but the Sure tends to leave white dust....

I hate the white stick stuff. Someone needs to make an unodored gel or gelstick.

But yeah...bums should be allowed to read too. Better that than drinking or mugging people, or something.

[Samwise]

Deodorant is for people who don't sweat but still want to smell like synthetic ocean breeze or whatever.

[Furiously]

Blocking your sweat glands causes cancer.

[Paelos]

Blocking your sweat glands causes cancer.

Then the French are safe.

[Furiously]

And they said it was the red wine...

[Samwise]

Blocking your sweat glands causes cancer.

So does not blocking them.

I'll take the option that makes me socially tolerable.