I can't remember how I came across this blog, but it's a new favorite. The latest entry, Nov. 1 2012, is titled as above. Sam Greenspan is the author and sole editor of the blog. He has one published book, the "11 Points Guide To Hooking Up." Greenspan strives to pick categories as different as possible.
The next most favorite is "11 High School Pictures Musicians Wish We'd Never Seen." Great fun.
On the current blog entry, however, I would like to tell you I got everything right and wasn't an idiot. Full Disclosure, although it's embarrassing ....
1.Joe Paterno molested children. In a poll conducted by Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research in August of this year, 28 percent of people said Joe Paterno is accused of molesting children.
(I went with "is" instead of "was" because I assume they also think
he's alive.) Another 15 percent weren't sure whether or not he'd been
accused of molesting children. [Source]
I thought Joe Paterno was an equal abuser with Jerry Sandusky. I did sorta think that he was covering up for Sandusky. Part of my ignorance was that Paterno died in prison and Sandusky just got sentenced. First in was worst, right? Really no excuse for not knowing this.
2.Romney's first name is short for "Mittens." We don't have many presidents who go by nicknames. Mitt Romney (if elected) would. And a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll in January found that 94 percent of the country has no idea what his real name is. It's like Muggsy Bogues all over again."
Boggues was a 5' 3" (yes) NBA basketball player whose given name was Tyrone Curtis, and actually this is not like Muggsy Bogues, as noted below.
"Of the people surveyed, 20 percent thought his name actually is Mitt, 18
percent went with Mitchell, eight percent picked Milton and two percent
chose Mittens. Yes, one out of 50 people believed his name is Mittens.
(Just six percent accurately went with Willard.) [Source]"
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I did not think Mitt Romney's
first name was Mittens, but I did think it was Mitchell. Probably
because it was the only name I could think of beginning with "Mit."I
sort of thought his real name might be Willard because I'd seen it in
some Yahoo comments postings, although I thought maybe it referred to
the Crispin Glover film. So were they calling Romney a rat? His full legal name is Willard Mitt Romney. Note that Mitt is named after his father's cousin Milton. The cousin's nickname was "Mitt," so that's the actual middle name for Romney, not his nickname.
But Romney's
real name is Mitt Romney--he just goes by his middle name rather
than his first name. My parents burdened me the same way, (not with
Willard), as I go by my middle name as well. There have been hundreds of
occasions where I've had to grit my teeth and explain. I feel sorry for
any child so labelled.
This is the one and only break I'll give to Mittens, though.
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