I’m shocked by how easily a piece of “common wisdom” can become accepted despite being patently and demonstrably wrong. The best example may be, “There’s no such thing as a silly question.”
Oh, yeah:
“Do you wear spurs when you ride ostrich in the avian rodeo?”
“If you had to wear shoes made of cheese, of which cheese would you want them made?”
“Do you have purple-glazed doughnuts in honor of the St. Crispin’s Day unicycle rally?”
“May I twirl my way into an eternity of dandelion lunacy?”
I can do this all day.
Are you seriously going to tell me that none of the above questions is at least a little bit silly. As a person of silliness, it enrages me… well maybe not so much “enrages” as has no discernible effect… when people deny the potential for silliness. Folks, it’s all around us. So, the next time you say that there is no such thing as a silly question, my response is, “Do you really think you can make that stick like the Archbishop’s bugger to the side of an albino wino?”
Tags: commentary, common wisdom, humor, opinion, questions, silliness
By B Gourley in Commentary, funny, humor, Opinion, wisdom on May 25, 2013.
