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A review by kaygray78
Because I Said So! : The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids by Ken Jennings
4.0
Ken Jennings is only a few years older than me, so many of the things he mentioned in this book remind me of my childhood, including mercurochrome, the Punky Brewster refrigerator episode, and my mother not letting us use the temporary tattoos out of the Cracker Jack boxes because they might be laced with LSD.
I think I was born a skeptic. I have snopes.com and urbanlegend.com bookmarked so that I can immediately disprove those annoying forwarded emails about chicken heads at KFC and baby seats on the side of the road having to do with gang initiation. I think my one aunt got the hint, because she finally quit including me on the forwards.
Anyhow, I chuckled through this book. Ken Jennings always struck me as being pretty square. But it turns out he's a pretty funny guy in addition to being smart. And I appreciated reading how all the things I was skeptical about are pretty much all untrue.
That said, I did tell my eight year old to stop running with a dumdum in his mouth the other day. Some habits die hard.
I think I was born a skeptic. I have snopes.com and urbanlegend.com bookmarked so that I can immediately disprove those annoying forwarded emails about chicken heads at KFC and baby seats on the side of the road having to do with gang initiation. I think my one aunt got the hint, because she finally quit including me on the forwards.
Anyhow, I chuckled through this book. Ken Jennings always struck me as being pretty square. But it turns out he's a pretty funny guy in addition to being smart. And I appreciated reading how all the things I was skeptical about are pretty much all untrue.
That said, I did tell my eight year old to stop running with a dumdum in his mouth the other day. Some habits die hard.