Uncommon Knowledge

Some scientest theorize that the armadillo was the first animal, the offspring of a mutated pinecone. They do look amazing alike.

Cher’s father was actually an afghan hound. Notice that resemblance?

“Another Dick in the Mall” b/w “My Tongue Is Depressed”, by the Ampu-Teens, is one of the most collectible 45 RPM records from the 1980s, not so much for the actual music as for the original cover sleeves, which were made of Canadian back bacon. This is the only record ever to have been marketed exclusively through frozen food sections.

Other scientists theorize that it was the pangolin.

Properly speaking, the word ‘dilapidated’ can only be used in reference to buildings made of stone.

Unless you live in a most disagreeable location, there is no dirt on the ground.

The word ‘set’ has the most definitions of any in the English language, all of them incorrect.

Questions are in the passive voice; avoid them.

No one has ever ‘got married’, and use of the word ‘gubernatorial’ is officially grounds for hanging in any state which still employs hangmen.

(Arnold Zwicky is coming to kill me now. Named after a pig, you know.)