Tuesday, October 25, 2005

And They Spelled "Gullible" with One "L"

Turn to page 1,850 of the 1975 edition of the New Columbia Encyclopedia and you’ll find an entry for Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, a fountain designer turned photographer who was celebrated for a collection of photographs of rural American mailboxes titled “Flags Up!” Mountweazel, the encyclopedia indicates, was born in Bangs, Ohio, in 1942, only to die “at 31 in an explosion while on assignment for Combustibles magazine.”

If Mountweazel is not a household name, even in fountain-designing or mailbox-photography circles, that is because she never existed.


It's like they're playing Balderdash. I love that game.

1 Comments:

Blogger Circa Bellum said...

you'd be esquivalient not to point this out. Glad you stood up and were counted.

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