Comments on: Contest: They Shoot Idiots, Don’t They? http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/856 Feel Smart Again Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:26:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Joe http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/856/comment-page-1#comment-2452 Joe Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:36:54 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/856#comment-2452 Katie Britt, are you from IL and have a brother Bill? If so, I think I know you. If not, congrats on the contest anyhow! Katie Britt, are you from IL and have a brother Bill? If so, I think I know you.

If not, congrats on the contest anyhow!

]]> By: Janel http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/856/comment-page-1#comment-2307 Janel Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:07:55 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/856#comment-2307 Your banned book week post made me think of one. Earlier this month, a concerned parent in Davis County, Utah, wanted to remove the book Voyage of the Basset from the public library because one of the illustrations has topless mermaids in it, which she thought could be suggestive. My local newspaper ran an editorial and printed a copy of the illustration along with it. The mermaids’ tops were covered with hair. You couldn’t see a thing. Sheesh. Luckily the library board decided to keep it. Here's the story: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645195626,00.html Your banned book week post made me think of one. Earlier this month, a concerned parent in Davis County, Utah, wanted to remove the book Voyage of the Basset from the public library because one of the illustrations has topless mermaids in it, which she thought could be suggestive. My local newspaper ran an editorial and printed a copy of the illustration along with it. The mermaids’ tops were covered with hair. You couldn’t see a thing. Sheesh. Luckily the library board decided to keep it.

Here’s the story:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645195626,00.html

]]> By: Becky http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/856/comment-page-1#comment-2189 Becky Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:07:23 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/856#comment-2189 I was working, ever so briefly, at the Virginia Department of Health in the Vital Records office before getting a real job after college. I answered calls from those in search of birth, death and marriage certificates. One woman wanted her son Mark's birth certificate. To facilitate my search, I asked if Mark was with a "k" or with a "c," to which she replied with great exasperation, "It's with an M!" Also courtesy of the VDH: One of the employees in my office had a teenage son who was applying to colleges. She and her son had just returned from a weekend visit to one school, and she was describing the campus to her coworkers. To help them visualize the admissions building, she invoked the image of a familiar landmark, explaining, "It had the octagonal shape of the Pentagon." I hadn't been to D.C. in a while, but the last time I checked, the Pentagon was shaped like a freakin' pentagon. I was working, ever so briefly, at the Virginia Department of Health in the Vital Records office before getting a real job after college. I answered calls from those in search of birth, death and marriage certificates. One woman wanted her son Mark’s birth certificate. To facilitate my search, I asked if Mark was with a “k” or with a “c,” to which she replied with great exasperation, “It’s with an M!”

Also courtesy of the VDH: One of the employees in my office had a teenage son who was applying to colleges. She and her son had just returned from a weekend visit to one school, and she was describing the campus to her coworkers. To help them visualize the admissions building, she invoked the image of a familiar landmark, explaining, “It had the octagonal shape of the Pentagon.” I hadn’t been to D.C. in a while, but the last time I checked, the Pentagon was shaped like a freakin’ pentagon.

]]> By: Alex http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/856/comment-page-1#comment-2170 Alex Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:28:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/856#comment-2170 You failed to mention where the mentalfloss dance marathon will be held. I would like to attend. I've got some moves. You failed to mention where the mentalfloss dance marathon will be held. I would like to attend. I’ve got some moves.

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