My most gullible momentSomeone once told me that gullible wasn't in the dictionary and I went, "yeah yeah ha ha" but when they were gone that didn't stop me checking. What was YOUR most gullible moment? Zero points for buying an icon on b3ta.
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rob, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 18:33)
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The Princess BrideThe Princess Bride is one of my absolute favourite films. I love it. I was really excited to pick up a copy of the book and read it.
It's one of those books that have the author talking about his real life in between telling us the story. So Goldman told us about his wife and his son and how he wrote the book and took it to Hollywood etc.
Part of the way through all this he began to mention the two countries from the film a lot, Florin and Guilder, as if they were real countries. For instance, he said that he had ancestors in one of the countries and later in the book he had a research trip to Florin.
Instead of then doing a double take and realising that the allegedly non-fiction parts of the book were as made up as the story, my mind took the other route and wondered at how I had managed to reach the age of thirty something without ever hearing of these two countries. I think I may have mentioned this to a few of my friends.
It was some while after I finished the book before I read something on the web that showed me the error in my thinking.
(, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 11:33, Reply)
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