Imo, one of the best ways to get an appreciation for the fallacy of an "absolute, true history" is to read old encyclopedias. Compare and contrast.
Did anyone else have a professor at UF that would say, "You can go look that up in your Funk & Wagnall!" ?
It took me by surprise the first time he said it and had to go look up what a Funk & Wagnall was first.
Years later @Seedy 's dad gave us a set and I had to laugh.
We had the Funk and Wagnalls set. You bought it one book at a time from the grocery store (maybe Publix, can't recall now). They'd sell volumes 1 and 2, then a week later it would be volumes 2 and 3, a week after that it would be volumes 3 and 4, and so forth until you got the whole thing (plus the 2 volume dictionary).
We had this set:
Alex.
World Book. Read the set from A to Reference in the 6th grade. Always looked forward to the annual update. Used to annotate the update articles every year. The nickname Mr. Encyclopedia elicited a lot of blood from noses, in addition to mine.
Just so you know, the prof was quoting Rowan and Martins Laugh In.We had the Funk and Wagnalls set. You bought it one book at a time from the grocery store (maybe Publix, can't recall now). They'd sell volumes 1 and 2, then a week later it would be volumes 2 and 3, a week after that it would be volumes 3 and 4, and so forth until you got the whole thing (plus the 2 volume dictionary).
We had this set:
Alex.
My calculations are it would be worth $8.14. I didn't use a calculator though so that might be inaccurate.
Marlon Perkins was a lot smarter than Steve Irwin. He’d ride in the helicopter while Jim Fowler would wrestle the dangerous wildlife.
Memory trigger. The BUFF has an HF radio (1000 watts) that can be tuned to CB frequencies. We were climbing out of a low level route around Holbrook AZ and I tuned to Channel 9 to listen to the truckers on I-40. I finally broke in and did my good buddy spiel. One of them asked what I was transmitting on since we pegged the meter. Told 'em I was a copilot on a B-52 doing the triple nickel on IR-276. Don't know if anyone believed me.
I had a biology class at UF in the fall of '93, big class in an auditorium. The teacher had 3 overhead projectors and three screens, he would talk and write, talk and write, talk and write, going from one projector to the next....he would go through at least 5 per class. I'd be barely finished with the first one when he'd pull the sheet and start (so he'd be starting his 4th and I'm starting #2). I'd sometimes not get all the notes and would stay after class for 20-30 minutes to get it all written. I made a B- in that class. loli had algebra 1 and 2 taught via overhead projector. it was a good tool at the time.
if you really wanted to punk the teacher, switch out her dry erase markers with a sharpie or 2
