Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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Ahhhh, my girlfriendShe's not stupid, but every now and then will come out with the odd statement. She blames it on being Kenyan, and completely unaware of us Western savages, I'm not convinced.
We were on the tube, "Look, Baker Street, that's where Sherlock Holmes lived" she says. "Yep, 221b" says I, "There's a statue of him somewhere there too". "You think he was really that good a detective?" she asks me. "Err, He wasn't real you know", I say, realising I've just crushed something she held most dear. "Oh".
Somewhere in Stratford, "They've gone to a lot of trouble for this Shakespeare, he isn't even real" she says. "He is you know", I tell her. Later that evening she phoned her dad and told him too, "Yeah dad, Shakespeare was real".
By the time Robin Hood came round I was seriously considering letting her keep thinking he was real, but I conceeded and told her about him too.
I'm trying to anticipate which real person vs. fictional character will come next.
(, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 16:16, 1 reply)
But Shakestaff wasn't real...There's a theory it was a pen name for a group of playwrights. As for Robin Hood -- he may or may not have had pesky antics with the Sherif of Nottingham but it's possible he was real nonetheless.
(, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 17:37, closed)
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