The Gods Must Be Crazy

In Ms. Geraci's 9th Grade Social Studies class we watched the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy". My bff, Sarah Kel and I sat through the entire movie believing, that it was, in fact, a true documentary. At the end of the movie, we had to get into our assigned study groups (two ditzes in a study group not permitted) and discuss the movie...My study group included, Bill McMahan, my boyfriend extraordinare at the time, and Mark Lion and Adam Krauser...our class brainiac's who are off somewhere today, super good looking and super successful....oh, and myself. At one point I actually turned to my group of intellectuals and said:

"Wait, so if the Bushmen are real, and they have never had any contact with someone from the outside world, how do the translators know what they're saying and what do they think of all of the camera men??"

Silence...

Sarah and I reconvened at the end of class and she too had let the cat out of the bag. We were officially labeled ditzes for the remainder of our High School careers.

Today, I made a similar blunder. I sent an article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17704847/site/newsweek/ ) to several of my friends with the belief that while the author was obviously being sarcastic, the quotes were definitely true. And I discussed this belief in detail with Elissa (another sucker) until I received the email below from one of our far more witty and practical friends:

Sara,
This was great - Thanks for thinking of me! I was sure this was a true story until I saw the reference to "satire" up on top :) 300 captured the real side of our beloved Persians!
Hope all is well,
Etti


Damn it!