Looking for something mindless to watch as I worked tonight, I pulled
a random animated series DVD off the shelf at the library. ("American
Dad". It appears to be "just like Family Guy, but with
war-on-terrorism jokes". If you like one you'll like the other, and if
one annoys you ditto, but I digress.)
I watched a couple of episodes, got a vague idea what was going on
(and ironed my shirts). Then I sat down, paid a bit more attention,
and watched one without getting distracted.
And the test.
I then read our (characteristically exhaustive) article on that
episode, and came away knowing about twice as much about what had
happened in it as I had by actually watching the damn thing.
I'm not sure if this is a positive or negative sign, but it struck me
as an amusing experiment!
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk