The worship of ignorance (and the anger that any hint of education or intellectualism ignites among so many) is profoundly depressing. This whole post made me lose the will to live. Sigh.

In a university English I class, the professor asked an open question to the class, based on a common mistake and pet peeve of hers: "Does anyone know the difference between 'everyday' and 'every day'?" I gave a couple seconds for the other ~20 students to answer before saying, "One's an adjective, the other's a noun." She threw up her arms and let out a yelp as if about to faint. I was in shock at how low the bar was.

At nursery school my daughter impressed her teacher by offering to spell medicine and getting it right first time. A three year old isn’t expected to be quite that advanced, she would fall flat on any other eight lettered word but medicine, yup nailed it. Her teacher asked about it and I had to confess that we loved listening to Ryan Hamilton and his song Medicine, in it he spells out M-E-D-I-C-I-N-E medicine before every chorus. She’s 11 now and still loves that tune 😀

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” -Isaac Asimov, 1980

I see a lot of folks on this post like me...I rarely show my Mensa side but am quite happy when folks say "Ask Annie...she'll know"...tis better than being an arrogant ass...😁...plus I live in a NorCal town, population 1k where 3/4 of the people are eagerly awaiting 2024 to "Make America Great Again"...hands folded, mouth shut saves a LOT of ass whuppins...😬🤣🤣

Heard about a kid called Baghdad for whole of high school. One his first day he forgot his bag, and his dad brought it in.

I was chatting at a fam. gathering about the big questions of retail in the current age ('Can brick & mortar stores still make in this e-tailer age?' - That sort of chat). So I mentioned how I read in the paper how 'class A malls are actually doing well on foot traffic.' (Nat.' retail groups actually rank every USA mall as Class A, B or C, - As are the 'good malls', Bs are in the middle, Cs are all the ones considered not so good). A fam. member heard this and said I was trying to make up a French-like version of the word classy, that I was trying to turn the word classy into some invented thing like 'classé'. It was funny but awkward to explain what I was actually meaning to her, and that I would never think I could actually suddenly invent an adjective, lol. I've had another person think I was being very fancy and scientific for referring to tectonic plates in a discussion about earthquakes. She thought this made me a Stephen Hawking of the conversation. Don't I wish I was as smart as someone like that!

When we were kids, one of my brother's favorite jokes was telling people that the word "gullible" wasn't in the dictionary.