Do you know how I know all these things?
Do any of you remember the old Jiminy Cricket shorts they used to show on the Disney Channel, featuring the famous Cricket walking down a row of books and then proceeding to tell you a lot of useful facts?
I think it was called "I'm No Fool," and at the end he would sing the song.
This occurs to me from time to time. I loved watching these when I was little and many of the "useful facts" are still a part of my daily reasoning. I remember one about swimming safety, one about fire safety... what, were these all safety films!?
But the best thing I learned from it was a line that I catch myself saying all the time, without even realizing what I'm quoting. "Do you know how I know all these things? I get them out of books."
And what was the one that featured the history of musical instruments, with four cavemen blowing on reeds and pounding their chests to represent different families of instruments (string, wind, percussion, et cetera)? Was that Jiminy Cricket? And there was one about the Moon, and one about nursery rhymes... were all of these Jiminy Cricket? For some reason they are all lumped in one category in my memory.