Nick MathewsonRunning a used book store means you get to make up your own awesome filing system
smells of bikes@nickm the crossover novel here is destined for greatness
Shirley Eugest@smellsofbikes @nickm
I could see it.
Peyronie's airship
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/airships-blimps-dirigibles-lighter-than-air-craft.4136/page-9
I could see it.
Peyronie's airship
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/airships-blimps-dirigibles-lighter-than-air-craft.4136/page-9
Jasper 🍉@EugestShirley this source https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/morrell-airship-disaster-over-berkeley-17290635.php
and via your link https://www.historynet.com/was-this-dirigible-builder-stock-swindling-grifter-or-a-deluded-visionary/ both say no-one died.
But this older (dutch) source says 7 died and 13 were heavily injured.
https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?query=%22John+Morrell%22&coll=ddd&page=1&facets%5Bperiode%5D%5B%5D=1%7C20e_eeuw%7C1900-1909%7C&identifier=MMHCO01:000080123:mpeg21:a0002&resultsidentifier=MMHCO01:000080123:mpeg21:a0002&rowid=1
It also differs, basically says the Ariel crashed, in the english stories the second one crashed.
The History guy covered it too..(edit: he also says no-one died) https://thehistoryguy.com/videos/the-largest-airship-of-its-time-the-morrell-airship/
@EugestShirley hmm delpher is really good, wish they applied it to all newspapers.
like https://www.loc.gov/newspapers/?dl=item&end_date=1906-06-01&ops=PHRASE&qs=John+Morrell&searchType=advanced&start_date=1906-05-01&location_country=united+states looks like i have to look at whole pages? And bunch a others are commercial. (including one that is "free" but just sends you to a commercial one)
But any dunno don't feel like figuring it out. Bit sorry for bothering you with it, but also not? Find inconsistency mention inconsistency...
Snaprails@smellsofbikes
The opening line of which might be, "She had an impressive décolletage, when she walked into a room it was like watching a dead heat in a Zeppelin race".
@nickm
The opening line of which might be, "She had an impressive décolletage, when she walked into a room it was like watching a dead heat in a Zeppelin race".
@nickm
Jordan@nickm @ireneista But…shouldn't the dirigibles be up high? What happened to the helium!
Ozzelot 
Hugo Mills@nickm If I ever get to run a second-hand bookshop, I'm going to collect books on nuclear engineering, plastics chemistry, and the geology of oil wells, and file them all on a shelf labelled "unpopular science".
Jeremy List
Bee O'Problem 
@nickm where would a story about joining the mile high club on an airship go? 😛
Dreaming of dad jazz.I'm guessing the book laying on it's side is about inflation fetishes?
Joel VanderWerf@michaelcoyote @nickm Or the "mile high" club.
Negative12DollarBill@nickm "Oh, the pornography!"
Andrew Benedict-Nelson
Bakunin Boys@negative12dollarbill @nickm OH THE HUGE MAMMARIES!
Zoe : Void -> a@nickm that's just steampunk
EndlessMason
The Queen of Weltschmerz🏳️⚧️@nickm @beardie_jamie Chuck Tingle is firing up the laptop as we speak, buckaroos
somcak@nickm hey @BonnettsBooks has a similarly cool filling system.
BonnettsBooks
Jake in the desert@nickm if I had a Dirigibles section I might adopt your filing system. 🙂👍 Right now, my Commercial/Private/Model Aircraft section is segregated from Erotica by Sports & Automotive interests.
mikeash@nickm I find this rather unclear. Is it two different sections or is this just in the middle of one large section of dirigible erotica?
@nickm And if it’s one section, is it erotica set on dirigibles, or involving dirigibles, or? Honestly this sign raises more questions than it answers.
Charles Fulton@nickm still deeply appreciate the one in Brunswick, Maine, that put Stephen King in the "local authors" section
Oblomov@mackensen @nickm they never got someone complaining because he was born in Portland, not Brunswick? 8-D
Chantaru@nickm somehow I am sure there is a book that would fit on both sides.
Big Ben@nickm So THIS is where inflation fetishes were discovered
playinginthedirt
Coles Street Pothole@nickm These are the two genders.
mark zerolofty vs. turgid
Wes Montage@nickm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpA4XpnnI_U
Lyrics at
https://genius.com/Captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-the-blimp-mousetrapreplica-lyrics
Captain Beefheart - The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)
Face Thumb@nickm Look, I like what I like, ok?
mj@nickm @rossgrady shouldn't the dirigibles have the up arrow?
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦@nickm Should be the inverse. Dirigibles tends to go up and erotica is often about going down.
Jonathan HendryOnly if the categories blend into each other so there are some dirigible erotica titles where the categories meet.
(Made up books with Photoshopped covers pasted onto other books are acceptable in a pinch)
Bongolian
Darth Paradox@nickm "Excuse me, where can I find books on inflation?"
Daniel M. Reck@nickm Either topic can give the reader a rise.
Tor Lillqvist@nickm Oooh, aaah, oooh, the humanity!
Ronan Jorah@nickm seems only fair
schratze@anarchiv have you seen this https://abyssdomain.expert/@nickm/114881925096959252
Nick Mathewson (@[email protected])
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Montessori Space Programme 🛸@schratze already boosted it!
I kind of see why you would tag me in that one :D
@anarchiv haha yeah I couldn't be bothered to check 400 boosts
@schratze dirigible-themed erotica when
@anarchiv people have written erotica about jetplanes and rollercoasters. It's only a matter of time
@schratze I feel like Cory Doctorow got pretty close to veering into dirigible erotica in Walkaway
@anarchiv Kenneth Oppel also wrote a couple of books about teenagers making out violently on airships
Eve, Go Listen to Dead Channel Sky
rob@EveOfTheFuture @schratze @anarchiv the root meaning of the word "dirigible" is "capable of being directed or steered". So, if you had, say, a remote controlled vibrator, it could be said to be a dirigible. Opens up a considerable variety of possibilities.....
skua@nickm
I came here looking for the #BalloonSex section.
These dirigibles, do they go "Bang!"?
elle mundy@nickm @MLE_online they both involve inflation
Benjamin Reed
zendao42