[Sca-cooks] Phyllo definition

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Terry Decker wrote:

> Any source needs to  be taken with a grain of salt.

I will say that Wikipedia is very up-front about the extent to which  
they think they should be taken seriously. If they can quote a  
reputable source for their info, they'll say so, and when they can't,  
they'll say that, too. It's just that people don't want to read  
anything in detail, and they want one-stop information shopping, so  
these little things are glossed over.

Maybe I'm colored by having seen Mike Judge's extremely silly and  
banal film, "Idiocracy" last week. Imagine "Buck Rogers In The  
Incredibly Stupid 25th Century".

>   I've found errors of
> fact in works by top authorities in the field and I know I make  
> plenty of
> errors (and try to correct them as I become better informed).

My favorite is when people forget that the OED is basically a  
glorified Wikipedia, originally created by a committee of amateurs  
which included one guy in a padded cell, and the ultimate Open Source  
document. I understand my suggested change got through, anyway.

>   And when you
> wander into disputed territory where both sides are presenting their
> interpretation as fact, you getsa some real fun.

How did religion get into this?

Adamantius


"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread, you have to say, let them eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
     -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry  
Holt, 07/29/04