The Sadder But Wiser Librarian

March 29, 2008 8:55 PM

Is there any other way to Woo a Librarian? I mean, you don't want to cause Trouble, but it's tough to find that girl to be your Shipoopi, but when you meet her, it's like hearing bells.
posted by Del Far (18 comments total)

Taking an interest in exercise is surely the way to woo a librarian. Master these moves and s/he'll be yours forever.
posted by HotPatatta at 9:03 PM on March 29, 2008 [7 favorites]

Meredith Wilson's Musicman
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

and thre rest are in the related videos box.
posted by bigmusic at 9:06 PM on March 29, 2008

Nobody, and I mean nobody, takes a back seat to me when it comes to loving the Music Man. But four songs on YouTube does not a post make. Flagged as flim-flam, flagged as bullroar, flagged as shinola, flagged as the purest snake oil ever squeezed out of a copperhead.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 9:25 PM on March 29, 2008 [10 favorites]

I apologize for not including more links to all of the songs but I was trying to be funny and it seemed impossible to do, so I apologize for that. Music man was the third musical I ever saw.
posted by Del Far at 9:35 PM on March 29, 2008

Dude, all you have to do is buy me a beer. Wait, I'm not gay though, so.... 2 beers.
posted by bradth27 at 9:54 PM on March 29, 2008

I love Shipoopi. Especially when sung by Peter Griffin.
posted by brautigan at 10:12 PM on March 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

This becomes even more mysterious when you listen to the music while looking at Del Far's user photo.
posted by HuronBob at 6:03 AM on March 30, 2008 [1 favorite]

I made a very short librarian muxtape. I do not, however, love the Music Man.
posted by jessamyn at 7:07 AM on March 30, 2008

Del Far, you gotta know the territory
posted by Shohn at 7:17 AM on March 30, 2008 [1 favorite]

Ideally, you should start by being a combination of Daniel Webster, Saint Pat, and Paul Bunyan, and it'd help if you could quote a little Balzac and Shakespeare.

(I've been pretty amazed, upon a recent re-watching, at how Shirley Jones took an essentially pretty thinly written character, and made Marian stand out in my memory as far more layered than most musical soprano leads.)
posted by Tomatillo at 9:01 AM on March 30, 2008

Loving "The Music Man" ain't always what it's supposed to be.
posted by First Post at 9:23 AM on March 30, 2008

Del Far, you gotta know the territory

Well it seemed like a very huge librarian population on Meta-Filter, and at 11pm when I came across my dvd of the movie, I then wondered if anyone has posted that song on meta-filter, because I couldn't really think of many love songs to librarians, although Jessaym has now fixed that.
posted by Del Far at 9:26 AM on March 30, 2008

duh, I'm stupid, didn't realize you were referencing the music man until i finished that post
posted by Del Far at 9:31 AM on March 30, 2008

I love the music man and this post was a good reminder of why. Also:

Metafilter: Pick a Little, Talk a Little
posted by Muttoneer at 10:26 AM on March 30, 2008 [1 favorite]

Black Mask, Desk Set and Party Girl are all better librarian movies than The Music Man.

Another way to woo a librarian: know the verb form of 'cunnilingus.'
posted by box at 10:52 AM on March 30, 2008

Shhhhhhhhh!!!
posted by not_on_display at 2:19 PM on March 30, 2008

If you try to woo me with that crap, you will get such a shushing.
posted by Razzle Bathbone at 2:39 PM on March 30, 2008

marshmallow?
posted by null terminated at 9:03 PM on March 30, 2008