Fact Finder Prints

'We've researched these facts beyond a doubt. . . keeping in mind, of course, that 'research', 'facts' and 'doubt' are all open to interpretation.'

'All this 'history' stuff you teach about - is it based on actual events?'

'I have a good memory for most things - it's only facts that throw me.'

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

'All this 'history' stuff you teach about - is it based on actual events?'

"I don't have much street smarts, but so far I'm surviving on Wikipedia wisdom."

"Are you liking that program with no opinion, no slant, just news? . . . John?"

Sense of dread & foreboding Information blackout Illumination Facts known

Fear/Knowledge

"Apparently, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water!"

"I'm suffering the unbearable loneliness of being right on the internet."

A good journalist cures what ails you.

Funky Facts: Sea Animals.

"Life is just a theory! It's all subject to change when we get new facts."

"So ants can lift twenty times their body weight. Big deal. Who can't?"

Reporter #6: television.

Funky Facts: A slug has no teeth, 2 teeth or over 25,000 teeth?

Funky Facts: Dogs.

"Is that you talking or Wikipedia?"

"Perhaps there is such a thing as being too well-informed."

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

Before the Internet

Funky Facts: Football.

Useless information desk at trivia buff convention

Rumors, lies and innuendo.

We have a problem with your research. We're Encyclopedia Britannica and you're Wikipedia.

"Dinosaurs are cool!"

The Month of July

"Are these 'raw' facts or 'spun' facts?"

"I didn't find out quite what I wanted about the economics of democracy but I did find an interesting article about the mating habits of the Patagonian Fruit Bat."

"Please, Lord, enough already."

"That's Eleanor. She's a fact checker."

Two computers, smaller one labeled DATA, the larger one, HYPE

Funky Facts: Elephants.

'Washington has wooden teeth? -- how did you find that out?', 'It came out in conversation.'