One of the things I’ve always found hardest to understand about humans is their habit of continuously stating and repeating the very very obvious

Can we call this the McCarver-Dierdorf theorem henceforth?

Re the Wife Swapper: I’m no longer surprised to what depths people will sink for a buck…disgusted, but not surprised.  I consider myself very fortunate to have had a friend (I won’t name-drop, but he was Roger Maris’ roommate) who shared stories of the 1961 Yankees.  He told me that he had been asked many times to write or coauthor a book about the team.  His comment was that nobody would want to read it because (and I’m paraphrasing) he couldn’t bring himself to write cr*p about his teammates simply because they were human.  He was a great guy and honorable man. Too bad there aren’t more of them.

One of the things I’ve always found hardest to understand about humans is their habit of continuously stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in “It’s a nice day, or “You’re very tall”, or “Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?”

—Douglas Adams
Author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

You know what? The obvious often needs to be stated over and over again because the really hard-to-believe thing about humans is they usually ignore it and act on what they want to be true instead.

Obvious, I know.