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On Jan 26, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Roy Tennant wrote: > Those of you (are there any?) who can't or don't want to login to see > berick's response should know that it is: > > aren't we all morons in the face of MARC? Why so negative toward a spec that's served our community for nigh unto forty years? I'd much rather see something fun or silly and not disparaging of anything and would vote against this if we were set up to vote against something. I mean, wouldn't you really then mean for it to say: "...in the face of MARC? By which, of course, we mean MARC with ISBD punctuation and AACR2 rules, the combination of which might make sense still to some members of our community but to us snarky geek types is really quite difficult to work with, so much so that we love dropping metaphorical bombs on it even while we don't really have a decent solution for replacing it quite yet hence the insecurity we share in great evidence by mocking it on a conference t-shirt." For good or ill, our profession is invested in MARC, and to parade around in clothes disparaging it (or in a shirt mocking any particular individual, which was, apparently, my first annual t-shirt suggestion objection, last year) seems like the wrong impression to give. Just because we blow off steam sometimes by acting like junior high schoolers on-channel doesn't mean we have to document similar behavior on clothing we'll all wear to other conferences.