Another shorty

Maybe I am Lois, maybe I am.

When I read that line I heard it in the voice of George Reeves, from the old Superman TV show, as the inscrutable Clark Kent.  I'll leave it at that.

But Uncle Ken was talking about the marketplace of ideas, an idea with much merit with one serious flaw.  Some good ideas may not be popular and will fail in the marketplace just as many mediocre products thrive in the commercial and cultural landscapes.  The marketplace has become a flea market, overrun with useless crap.  The response to the "popcorn of crazy ideas" should not be a stifling blanket but an effort to prove them wrong, using facts and not opinions.  But that's just my opinion.

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It's funny how one thing can lead to another.  While I was reading about clocks I started thinking about the way we say tick-tock and not tock-tick, and I stumbled on a new (to me) set of rules in the English language.  These are rules we use everyday without knowing them, something we picked up along the way; I don't recall ever being taught them formally.  What do you guys think?  Now I wonder what else we know without knowing we know it.  Did I intuitively know the earth was round because otherwise all the water would fall off?