News The Best New Way to Pay For Libraries
posted by on May 8 at 15:31 PM
I can only imagine what this is going to do to The Stranger’s long distance bill:
Vienna’s City Hall has launched a “sex hotline” to raise money for the capital’s main public library.Callers pay 39 euro cents (53 cents) a minute to listen to an actress read breathless passages from erotica dating to the Victorian era.
Anne Bennent, a famous Austrian stage and film star, reads passages from the Vienna library’s collection of 1,200 works of erotic fiction from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, the library said.
Seriously though, just imagine how many public projects could get funding this way. I know I’d pay 50 cents a minute to call City Hall and hear Mayor Nickels breathlessly read municipal code to me.
Via AP
I know I’d pay 50 cents a minute to call City Hall and hear Mayor Nickels breathlessly read municipal code to me.
I've already heard enough of Nickels on KEXP encouraging me to "shower with a buddy".
How about a tax on stupidity instead? There's at least 30 percent of those left ...
Andy, I am horrified. Thank you for the indigestion.
That's quite a twist on the SPL's old Dial-a-Story program, which let kids call up the library to listen to a story every week. Of course, the Seattle Public Library didn't charge extra for the service.
"Seriously though"--well jeepers, sounds like they're seriously doing this in Vienna, right?
Anyone remember Mona Moan?
Call her up (free local call), and she read the time in a porn star voice & followed up with a fake orgasm. Back in the 90's.
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