Pliny the Elder and Radar O'Reilly

[dickens]

What do these men have in common? Their filing system.

There is an episode of MASH where Radar's filing system plays a part. No one can find the file for any of the jeeps. Radar explains that they are filed under W because jeeps have wheels.

Pliny the Elder? He wrote an encyclopedia called the Historia naturalis. In it, you can find the entry on Navigation in the Horticulture volume. Why? Because sails are made of linen.

Comments

[resolute.livejournal.com]

. . . and the fact that you know that is a joy to me and a delight unto mine eyes.

[hypatia-j.livejournal.com]

Now I'm wondering what it says about me that I DO know both of those things...