He's nothing special, she's not too smart

[venta]

This morning, in my office, no one understood today's XKCD properly because no one had read both the relevant books. We sorted it out between us, because n-1 of those present were very familiar with Lord of the Rings, and 1 of those present was very familiar with Charlotte's Web.

I, um, er. I. Yes.

I'll be the 1.

Comments

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I too thought everyone read Charlotte's Web at school.

Is it that you haven't read Lord of the Rings or that you're not very familiar with it?

[venta.livejournal.com]

See comment above :) Technically I have read it, when I was about 11. But I retain no memory of anything that happened in it.

I've also seen the first two films, and retained no memory of what happened in those either.

Obviously I've heard people talking about it, but for some reason I seem strangely impervious to acquiring any form of knowledge/familiarity. Not on principle, by the way! It just seems to happen :)

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I have the same response to Babylon 5. I've seen all of it, some of it several times. I retain almost no information about it other than "oh, Neil Gaiman wrote an episode, didn't he? Was that Babylon 5?"

(That is now complicated by the fact that my brain says "no, he wrote an episode of Doctor Who". I appear unable to accept that he could have done both.)