Wikipedia
People who know me know that I love Wikipedia. Why consult a boring (and often expensive) encyclopedia when you can get punk rock information now that’s occasionally wrong and hilarious. For instance, I had no idea that the badger was an ingredient in the color blue and could be used to make a “smashing party punch.”
A while ago, I read an article about how Tequila was rising in popularity such that aged tequilas were being sold. Many, many, many people told me that you can’t age tequila. After a while it supposedly goes bad. I hadn’t heard this before, but was more likely to believe the article than the yahoos I know.
Rich dropped by my office today. He’s spent quite a bit of time in Mexico lately, and raves about the tequila he scored. I brought up the whole “you can’t age tequila” malarky and he agreed, it’s malarky. He told me to consult wikipedia.org. I did. It doesn’t say anything about tequila going bad. Why would it? It did force a dump truck load of knowledge into my head.
And, now I want a margarita.