Posted on 10/04/2011 2:08:22 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
Wow. Memories ...
I got mauled mercilessly in several classes in Jr HS when I turned in work that relied too heavily on F n W as the principal source. I just KNEW I had presented ONLY facts and details provided by a supposedly authoritative source ...
The lesson I learned was to be prepared to challenge ANY ‘authoritative source’ and to provide myself with a sufficient quantity of alternative sources.
I haunted libraries and bookstores for years afterwards — and now the Internet — and never let myself fall into that particular trap again. ( Found a few others, along the way, but that’s a tale for another campfire ... )
21stCenturion
” Lincoln Library of Essential Information.”
My grandmother had one of those when I was a kid. Was at least 6” thick. I wish I had it still.
The Rocky Horror Picture show has “audience responses”. I don’t know if it’s been used lately, but one scene has the Narrator/Criminologist reading from a book, and audience
members yell out, “Look that up in your F-— And Wagnalls...”
(only they use the swear word :) )
Of course there have been many songs using “Funk” and it sounds so similar to the swear word...
Get The Funk Outta My Face
Ain’t Gonna Funk No More With No Big Fat Woman
Play That Funky Music White Boy
We Got The Funk (...bring out the funk...)
Doin’ it to Death (”gonna have a funkin’ good time...”)
Funk & Wagnalls...the Wikipedia of my youth!
For those of us older than dirt, remember green stamps? They could be saved in small booklets then turned in for things like encyclopedias or what my mom called “gas station china.”
Sperry and Hutchinson’s (S&H) GREEN STAMPS. I spent hours as a kid licking and pasting this bloody things into those stupid books for my mother.
The blood was from my raw tongue.
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