not to mention 'sides to middle'.
Then there's how many bushels in a peck, or chains in a furlong, or even (if asked) who discovered America. In my school days we'd have confidently answered Christopher Columbus. But now the 'right' answer could easily be Eric the Red when we all know it was Prince Madog anyway, or maybe St Brendan the Navigator?
How much 'useless' information is swimming about in our heads, and was it really worth the bother of learning it all in the firs place when it can only lead to confusion in later years, and an almost certain and humiliating defeat in 'who wants to be a millionaire?
2007-11-26
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proud walker
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