[sotd] Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets [July 3, 2009]
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- Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:11:29 -0300
Site of the Day for Friday, July 3, 2009
Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets
Today's site, from the folks at Mental Floss Magazine, presents a sterling
collection of specific cultural must-knows. Gentle Subscribers who are more at
home
at a weekend barbecue than a cocktail party can use them, too.
"We're the sort of intelligent that you hang out with for a while ... Great
times.
And you only realize how much you learned from us after a little while. Like a
couple days later when you're impressing your friends with all these intriguing
facts and things you picked up from us, and they ask you how you know so much,
and
you think back on that great afternoon you spent with us and you smile. ... And
then you lie and say you read a lot." - from the website
This light-hearted but essentially factual batch of cultural essentials offers
more
than forty subjects, ranging from individuals to weighty topics, each handled
in an
engaging fashion. With a succinct round-up of the crucial details, the
collection
takes a look at such disparate figures as Miles Davis and Charlemagne, along
with a
nod to subjects like the Rosetta Stone and the Hundred Years' War. Each cheat
sheet
fills in the basics, offers a few relevant highlights and concludes with a
choice
selection of the all-important "conversation starters".
Sashay over to the website for a little nudge towards cultural literacy at:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/cheatsheets/
A.M. Holm
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