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scottobearsayra pointed out that one of the factoids from a book of trivia I posted earlier is untrue... apparently, it's not rude to tip in Iceland....Curse you, Max for your fibs!
Which brings to mind a question. How does a "book of trivia/factoids" check it's sources? I rather dislike having misinformation in my skull if I can help it. I sometimes wonder that about all our knowledge, and how much is patently untrue, while being accepted as fact... Did we really land a man on the moon? Is the world really round? Some of these things can be investigated, while others have to be taken in good faith. It's not like I can go to the moon, and look for flags. I'm confident that there is math and travel that will allow us to see that the world is a ballish thing though. But why publish something that is apparently patently untrue? Filler, and the odds no Icelander (is that the right term?) will find out about it? I enjoy tipping folks for a job well done, and would've deprived someone of a gratuity if I took the book at face value (as I pretty much had...) while visiting Iceland.
so much for my Icelandic trivia... I wonder if my other limited knowledge of there is also incorrect....Is it true that the phone books are listed by first name? Are many of the women there as cute as Björk? Is it really nice there, while Greenland is cold and rocky, misnamed so sailor-types could have a happy private place to live?
Anyhow, thanks for the correction, Sayra...
Which brings to mind a question. How does a "book of trivia/factoids" check it's sources? I rather dislike having misinformation in my skull if I can help it. I sometimes wonder that about all our knowledge, and how much is patently untrue, while being accepted as fact... Did we really land a man on the moon? Is the world really round? Some of these things can be investigated, while others have to be taken in good faith. It's not like I can go to the moon, and look for flags. I'm confident that there is math and travel that will allow us to see that the world is a ballish thing though. But why publish something that is apparently patently untrue? Filler, and the odds no Icelander (is that the right term?) will find out about it? I enjoy tipping folks for a job well done, and would've deprived someone of a gratuity if I took the book at face value (as I pretty much had...) while visiting Iceland.
so much for my Icelandic trivia... I wonder if my other limited knowledge of there is also incorrect....Is it true that the phone books are listed by first name? Are many of the women there as cute as Björk? Is it really nice there, while Greenland is cold and rocky, misnamed so sailor-types could have a happy private place to live?
Anyhow, thanks for the correction, Sayra...
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Date: 2000-11-14 12:50 pm (UTC)wagging the dog
Date: 2000-11-14 04:09 pm (UTC)Re: wagging the dog
Date: 2000-11-14 05:26 pm (UTC)Re: wagging the dog
Date: 2000-11-14 05:30 pm (UTC)um, but... don't make pam anderson leo's love interest...
give them each someone else... she'd kill him...
Re: wagging the dog
Date: 2000-11-14 06:05 pm (UTC)pam can love regis philburn.. we all want him dead anyways..
and leo can love some unknown who will soon be a bigger star than he.. titanic anyone?
Re: wagging the dog
Date: 2000-11-14 06:53 pm (UTC)Re: wagging the dog
Date: 2000-11-15 10:31 am (UTC)Re: wagging the dog
Date: 2000-11-15 11:44 am (UTC)woah! Wuhoh!, ahh, ahh, ey oh!
Re: wagging the dog
Date: 2000-11-15 02:05 pm (UTC)the humanity of it all!