Save the books pt.11 decision

by | Oct 6, 2025 | Fiction, Things to Come | 85 comments

After a week or so we were amazed by the appearance of these idiots’ parents. In the morning we awoke to half a dozen or so billiards ships, with parents wanting answers.

The initial responses were hilarious.

β€œSo what, I’ll offer half a billion dinkets to just bail out and go to another planet, what’s that? So what? it’s just a planet, who cares?”

Most of the parents that were there disapproved of the idea and felt that the humans on this planet, in fact, deserved something green, not a barren rock, after all their children wrecked it.

The truth was humanoids have populated most of the inhabitable planets in this quadrant of the galaxy and had stayed more or less the same for the past 5 millions sols, or so, we were no different.

So the offer was made, leave to a new green world with a G main star, they would supply us with tech and subsidy until we could survive independently.

β€œWhat about our history? Our art, our knowledge? We throw that away?” Apparently this has happened before and the standard procedure was to collect and archive as many books as possible. We scoured the great libraries of the world then it was time. To. Leave.

Bobbo, the end of our world

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85 Comments

  1. Evan from Evansville

    We don’t always throw things away. Often, casual negligence, disregard and a distinctly meh indifference to it all.

    My computer’s current issues are an example. Not sure if it’s dead-dead, tho that wouldn’t surprise me. Therein, one can see the issue with The Unresolved.

  2. Sean

    Y’all see that Hunter’s moon tonight?

    • DrOtto

      Is there a crack pipe in his smile?

      • Timeloose

        No scarf either. I am disappointed.

      • rhywun

        lol

    • Threedoor

      Clear and brisk here.

    • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

      Saw it as it was just rising, about a half hour before your post. I believe some of the highest tides occur during an October Moon.

    • Gender Traitor

      Would have liked to see that moon, but it was clouding up at dusk ahead of some badly needed rain.

      I could tell it was a full moon, though, by some of the nutsiness at work today. πŸ™„

  3. slumbrew

    Good to know it’s not OPI if you’re the Chiefs.

    (That was a blatant pick play)

  4. Timeloose

    “So the offer was made, leave to a new green world with a G main star”
    https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Stars

    Lots of stories with stellar objects mentioned today. It makes me happy as I am a bit autistic about them.

    • Bobbo

      Yay you read it

  5. Evan from Evansville

    Philly has made this interesting as fuck I’m the 9th.

    Fuck LA. Fuck Philly,too, but root root Schwarber.

    • Ted S.

      And fuck Chicago.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Gov, yes. But sports, Chess Records, comedy..

        The Second City is Bro’s fiercest enemy, always raising his pathetic thingy that (is supposedly) goes up.

        But he gets em sent in from Indiana. I also cause that.

      • Brochettaward

        I got 99 problems son, but being second…that aint one.

    • Evan from Evansville

      As soon as that ended, the channel went to the Cubs game.. *just* as Suzuki hit a 3-run bomb in the 1st w no out.

      I cause Things. Big Things. Biggliest. (Imanaga got thru the 1st no issues, apparently. I also caused that.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Fuck. Let it not be said, the Baseball Gods are fickle. Still.. we’re making it again interesting in the bottom half.

  6. slumbrew

    I’m weirdly pleased and definitely amused that Brian Bosworth as “The Sheriff” has jumped from the Dr Pepper commercials to the Nissan Heisman House series of ads.

    Same character, two totally different ad campaigns.

    • Chafed

      I haven’t seen the ads. Is this the same guy who flamed out in the NFL decades ago?

      • slumbrew

        Yep. “Brian and The Boz” is an excellent documentary, if it’s available to you.

      • Chafed

        Thanks for the recommendation.

        Unrelated, Pats are showing signs of life this season.

      • slumbrew

        Maye looks to be a legit talent.

        Early losses were turnovers and penalties, both of which are in their own control (vs. something like an inability to run the ball or the like)

        I’m optimistic. Not expecting magic, but a good season.

  7. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    Welp, that happened.

  8. slumbrew

    Second blatant PI by the Chiefs, “missed”.

  9. Evan from Evansville

    Oh. Y’all are watching Week 4/5 of that sport rather than playoffs of another.

    Could be Week 3, I spose. The 3/5ths Compromise in glib form. Which I don’t consent to.

    • Bobbo

      Some of us could care less about sportsball, try to keep up junior

      • Evan from Evansville

        It’s my Friday. Positive Distraction Dust I’ve developed, not just all season, but for ~3 decades.

        This yute also enjoys many other things.

      • slumbrew

        Aren’t you Mr Disc Golf? How is that different than being interested in any other sport?

      • Chafed

        Because FYTW.

      • Bobbo

        This guy gets it

      • slumbrew

        Got it, you’re just being a dick to Evan for no reason.

  10. Bobbo

    It looks like Im moving to OKC soon, what a drastic departure. Its nice enough but leaving my fruends, my job my life? Kinda hard since I just built it.

    • Chafed

      Are you being enslaved?

      • Evan from Evansville

        Detained. Keep up, sport.

      • Bobbo

        Yes I am, Im a whore for good looking, serious women

    • Gustave Lytton

      Pretty sure there’s a need for HVACR in OK, if that’s still you’re thing!

    • Not Adahn

      If they’re still open, you should go to Greek House in Norman.

    • R.J.

      Wow! I’ll find you on the comments somewhere and pass you my email. I can visit at some point.

      • UnCivilServant

        “I will find you, and I will visit you.”

      • R.J.

        Yep! If you lived down here you’d be cursed with me too.

  11. Evan from Evansville

    Fun fact – Swift sold 1.2 million VINYL albums on Day 1.

    That explains the driver backlog at work I mentioned.

    Damn, girl. Listened to ‘Orphelia.’ Does it’s job, no more

    • rhywun

      Don’t know any song of hers and have no intention to.

      There is nothing there of even the slightest interest to me.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Shake It Off is a legit pop masterpiece w a solid msg. Gold.

        Blank Slate, I highly enjoy. Vid makes it better. A really well written pop song.

        I do not understand Swift hatred. She’s damn good at her job and she’s built her empire from scratch. Respect, y’all. More of it.

      • rhywun

        I don’t hate her. I just have no interest in her music, or her “empire”.

    • UnCivilServant

      I can’t name a single thing she’s done – and her fans make me not want to learn.

    • Brochettaward

      The important thing is that she found a guy with an apparently big dick who actually wants to marry her insufferable ass for some reason.

      • Bobbo

        I would fuck that serious ass, so would you

  12. Mojeaux

    Okay, so I finally figured out why football no longer interests me and it came to me while my husband was telling me about all the penalties the Chiefs racked up (13, apparently).

    I cannot stand all the fucking penalties. It’s just not fun anymore.

    Trying to give us bread and circuses and the bread’s moldy and there are no elephants at the circus. Pussies.

    • creech

      I’d get rid of “false starts” penalty and be more lenient with many of the other calls.

    • Bobbo

      Pussies is why I dont watch anymore

    • rhywun

      It’s so bad you expect something to be called every play.

      I agree… it’s extremely tedious and borderline unwatchable.

      • Mojeaux

        It’s like having two ads in a 3-min YT video.

    • UnCivilServant

      Can we have the Circuses go back to being chariot races? I’m not talking about the shadow of the sport they call harness racing, I mean, four half-feral crazed monsters dragging a wicker and balsa wood death stool on wheels around a nascar track in a no-holds barred battle royale around the loop until the fans inevitably riot when their team crashes out.

      • Mojeaux

        Look, football is SUPPOSED to be about gladiators and … now we’ve got padded helmets and roughing-the-passer calls if you sneeze in his direction.

      • rhywun

        I would watch the hell out of that.

      • Gender Traitor

        Have them chasing the inevitable PETA protestors and I’m in. πŸ˜ƒπŸ‘

  13. Bobbo

    You know that time when your lady friend is pissed at you? Yep

  14. rhywun

    Two more (((days))) off πŸ™‚

    I dunno if drinking yourself stupid is a Sukkot tradition but I’m happy to make it so.

  15. Evan from Evansville

    “I’ll be your father figure
    I drink thar brown liquor
    I make deal w the devil
    Cuz my dick is bigger”

    She’s kinda our gal.

  16. UnCivilServant

    I am sad.

    I picked up the manga series early on, and it doesn’t deserve the be mistreated with a free to play abomination.

    • UnCivilServant

      Morning, Sean.

      Bacon sounds good. I’m out of bacon, and the store doesn’t open for another 40 minutes.

      I miss 24 hour grocery stores.

      • Sean

        Bacon always sounds good. 🀀

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Ah, the soundtrack for every goofy β€˜90s comedy with a reluctant love interest. Good song though.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean, U, Stinky, and Ted’S.!

      • UnCivilServant

        Morning. How goes?

        I’ve acquired bacon and am making turkey-bacon wraps.

      • Gender Traitor

        Okay, but I didn’t get nearly enough sleep last night. I really don’t know why I had such trouble dropping off. I don’t think I drank any more coffee than usual. I can’t believe it would have been the tiny little “fun size” pack of M&Ms I indulged in (leftover from this past weekend’s Board long-range planning session.) The rest of this month – but especially early next month – is going to be awash in temptation. 😳🍫🍭🍬

      • Gender Traitor

        The turkey bacon wraps sound really good. πŸ˜‹

      • UnCivilServant

        I have consumed them, and am out of turkey now. Though I have retained some bacon for future meals.

    • UnCivilServant

      How many of these are being caused by Amyloid clots?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Not surprising, a quick look shows the primary risk factors to be largely related to weight and we’ve become a nation of fat people.

  17. Ownbestenemy

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      • Ted S.

        Because FYTW?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Blame the shurltdown

      • UnCivilServant

        CODEC ERROR IN TRANSLATION.

        MESSAGE INCOMPLETE

        END OF LINE.

  18. UnCivilServant

    It’s fascinating – the more info that comes out about Metroid Prime 4, the less interested I am in the game.

    • UnCivilServant

      There’s nothing that sets off any “This is going to suck” flags, I just find increased disinterest in playing.

  19. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    whats goody

  20. Chipping Pioneer

    I saw a headline last night about Lebron James teasing a “big announcement”.

    I hope he takes his talents to South Florida and the Del Boca Vista lawn bowling team.

    • UnCivilServant

      Naw, he’s coming out as Trans and going to the WNBA

  21. Not Adahn

    Re: INXS,

    Some of you more into the music scene might be able to tell me about the particular flavor of “cool” that is in their music, which is shared (IMO) by Prince and Dire Straits.