The Book of General Ignorance said that the female mosquito is the most dangerous animal that ever lived. If this was the case, then I would have died 20 years ago.
The Book of General Ignorance also said that the dishwasher was invented by a woman who owned a huge collection of china and other precious dishes. Such a woman didn’t want her porcelain pieces broken by the maids, so she devised her own blueprint of a modern dishwasher. With the help of an engineer she was able to come up with a machine that prevented dish breakage by human handling. This prototype evolved throughout the years, giving the modern American household the machine that’s causing it a lot more trouble than it needed. Not just to pay the bills, but the fact that the dishwasher is extremely unnecessary in the kitchen. In other parts of the world, people simply wash their dishes, rinse and wipe them — period.
We were at Books-a-Million yesterday when this little myth-busting hardbound (Book of General Ignorance) caught my eye. At 20 bucks, I suggest you should bring it home, if you don’t have the time to read the entire book in the store. (Which I sometimes do, the cheat!) So many of us think we know so much, which makes us appear even more dumb.
“He who knows what he does not know is the wisest.” -Confucius
Ugh. Now I miss my childhood days.
