Overheard at the Baker Street tube station.


Two American tourist-girls look at the tiles on the subway wall illustrated with the silhouette of Sherlock Holmes.

Tourist Girl 1:
Look! Charles Dickens!

Tourist Girl 2:
I think it's Sherlock Holmes.

Tourist Girl 1:
Yeah, duh, Dickens wrote Sherlock Holmes.

Tourist Girl 2:
Dickens isn't a writer, he's a painter.

Tourist Girl 1:
Whatever, painted Sherlock Holmes.


It sounds fake, but this conversation is real. I overheard it about 5 years ago, and it's the basis by which I judge stupidity.