@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") wrote:
This is a marvelous thread & reminds me of the time in 7th grade when we had to write reports about an element of the periodic table, and I picked Xenon because it sounded cool, then couldn't find ANYTHING about it so I made up a story about a secret society of Xenon worshippers
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@shockproofbeats ("The author, Séamas O'Reilly") wrote:
When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.