Friday, January 4, 2008

Books

College bookstores are a scam. I caught my visit today on film.



I need to start shopping online.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love how they take someone's used Trust and Estates book, give them $20 bucks for it, and then sell it for $95, when the price new is $118.

Bastards.

El Guapo said...

I was told by a prof in grad school that the largest purchaser of used books is the book publishers so they can shred them and sell new copies to suckers like us. I don't know if this is true but he thought they were bastards too.

Guy Fawkes said...

You know what people are? Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.

I can't take credit for that, so kudos to the person who names the source.

El Guapo said...

Dr. Bob Kelso, Scrubs.

Here it is on film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ICj1MlMqQ

Anonymous said...

Kudos to el guapo!

Guy Fawkes said...

I have to revoke El Guapo's kudos because it was Dr. COX, not Kelso ;)

Guy Fawkes said...

Let me rephrase...the ORIGINAL quote was attributable to Dr. Cox:

http://scrubs.mopnt.com/scripts/407.php

Dr. Kelso indeed uttered it in El Guapo's video which is a clip from later in the same episode.

Nicole said...

Apparently, the US Department of Education recently wasted a lot of money and time to generate a 95-page report on how college textbooks are too expensive.
"And to think for $500, they could've called any one of us."-Lewis Black