On 18/02/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/02/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
Plus, I am advocating replacing it with a verifiable and objective list, which they can still play with, just not adding their favourite basketball star. They might have to do some research. Something they could - you know - learn from.
[[List of people famous for being tall]] - there's your pygmies and ballerinas, out go your average basketballer.
For comparison, [[List of longest novels]] has interesting history, discussion and caveats. In Search Of Lost Time is pretty much the "conventional winner" as the longest novel anyone actually reads as a novel, but is not first on the list at all.
- d.