08 May 2009

Best...Footnote...EVER

I recently ran across the best footnote ever in the history of publishing. It appears on page 140 of Why is Snot Green?: and Other Extremely Important Questions (and Answers) by Glenn Murphy. Here, in all its glory, is the Best Footnote EVER:

* See What would happen if you sneezed and farted at the same time? (page 158) for more details about snot.


It just doesn't get any better than that.

Incidentally, this reminds me of my all-time favorite bit of errata, which appeared as a special page at the beginning of a long-forgotten book about World War II:

ERRATA: The caption to Plate XII should read: "Winston Churchill in the bombed House of Commons."


Sure enough, when you turned to Plate XII, the existing caption read: "Winston Churchill bombed in the House of Commons."

1 comment:

Thomas Atkinson said...

Of course, there's always Tom Weller's Science Made Stupid for such gems as: "A more detailed explanation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle may be found in the appendix. Then again, it may not".

But I think you were after unintentional humor. But you may not have been.