Overheard at the Baker Street tube station.

Two tourist-girls look at the tiles on the subway wall illustrated with the silhouette of Sherlock Holmes.
Tourist Girl 1:	Look! Charles Dickens!
Tourist Girl 2:	I think it's Sherlock Holmes.
Tourist Girl 1:	Yeah, duh, Dickens wrote Sherlock Holmes.
Tourist Girl 2:	Dickens isn't a writer, he's a painter.
Tourist Girl 1:	Whatever, painted Sherlock Holmes.
It sounds fake, but this conversation is real. I overheard it about 5 years ago, and it's the basis by which I judge stupidity.

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