Watched Drew Carey last night. Haven't watched in a while, probably a couple of years, so there were new characters and plot lines that didn't make much sense. We thought we can look it up on the interent. But why. In the good old days that was called unimportant. If someone you knew did not know or you did not have a book on the topic, it was likely unimportant to you. Nerds had their reference guides like the Radio and TV Handbook or Halliwell's movie guide that could tell you how many TVs there were in Chad or which movie the bit player in that movie was in five years ago. Now if you do not know anything, you do to the unauthoritative source of everything and get an idea. Nothing is unimportant not to check which makes nothing important enough to go to the trouble to really check. [Ed: alternate reading: if nothing is so unimportant not to bother seeking confirmation on the internet then nothing is actually important now in the same way it was pre-interweb.] Fact and trivia have merged.
I do not know what happened to Mimi's husband / Drew's brother and don't care.

Comments
Nils Ling - July 8, 2004 9:35 AM
>Nothing is unimportant not to check which makes nothing important enough to go to the trouble to really check.<
That sorta squishy thump sound you heard was my head imploding.
Alan - July 8, 2004 9:45 AM
That was actually the desired effect. I think BC (before coffee) I was intending to say that if nothing is so unimportant not to bother seeking confirmation then nothing is actually important now in the same way it was pre-interweb.