“Do you know, Miall, Encyclopaedia Britannica doesn’t even mention spaghetti?” # and this is why we have #wikipedia

In de Jaeger’s 2000 obituary Ian Jacob, the then-Director-General of the BBC, was quoted as having said to Leonard Miall, Head of Television Talks 1954-61,

When I saw that item, I said to my wife, ‘I don’t think spaghetti grows on trees’, so we’d looked it up in Encyclopædia Britannica. Do you know, Miall, Encyclopædia Britannica doesn’t even mention spaghetti.

ref: http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/6772 via Spaghetti tree hoax – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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One response to ““Do you know, Miall, Encyclopaedia Britannica doesn’t even mention spaghetti?” # and this is why we have #wikipedia”

  1. Dave Walker

    [Dr Samuel Johnson, to Baldrick]: “Sausage? Sausage?!? Damn my eyes!”

    🙂

    One of the many virtues in having independent entities working toward similar ends, is one will often spot something that the other misses…

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