Fact Finders Mugs

Useless information desk at trivia buff convention

Fear/Knowledge

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

Before the Internet

"That was totally....what's the word I'm looking for?"

Funky Facts: Football.

Reporter #6: television.

Rumors, lies and innuendo.

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

"Dinosaurs are cool!"

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

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

The Month of July

"Is that you talking or Wikipedia?"

"Please, Lord, enough already."

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

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

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

'There are facts,there are factoids, and there are just plain fun facts.'

Funky Facts: Turtles.

Funky Facts: Elephants.

Sense of dread & foreboding Information blackout Illumination Facts known

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

'You're so illogical. I can never win an argument with you.'

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

"We will demonstrate that climate change denial blogs cause further global warming."

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

Conspiracy theories

'Hey, that line's moving a lot faster!'

'We ran a full DNA test, STR and Mitochondrial analysis... and Bob here 'Googled' it just to make sure.'