You know the old joke: a bunch of junior mathematicians set out to discover the least interesting number. They work for a long time and eventually conclude that a certain number (whose name I won’t mention here — her name has been dragged through the mud too many times already) is the least interesting number in existence. Proud of their discovery, they take the result to their department chair. Without even looking up from his computer screen, where he’s been surfing on TBD all morning, he says: “Least interesting number, eh? Well, that’s a very interesting property.”
So even though it was many years ago yesterday (on January 14th) that singer David Jones made a pivotal career decision and changed his name to “David Bowie” in order to prevent further confusion between himself and Davy Jones, superstar member of the then insanely popular group “The Monkees”, I’m sure that there will be something equally droll and nearly newsworthy that happened on this day in history, unless it truly is the least interesting day of all, but I don’t know what that nugget of interestingness is yet–although I’m sure whatever you can dig up will be more interesting than what I have.
The frightening thing is that that isn’t even one of my longer sentences.
