The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 5 (September 1, 1933)
Fundamental Facts and Fact-demental Funks
Fundamental Facts and Fact-demental Funks.
The beauty of being a plain ass is that it is useless to pretend that you are anything else. When you're unused to speeding on the cinder-track of knowledge a sharp collision with learning oft’ causes a compound facture of the intelligence. Thus fundamental facts are more useful than fact-demental funks. Some things are too plain to be noticed and others are too noticeable to be plain, but take it or leave it—there are things worth taking and things better left; for often the “left” is right and the right is left, and it takes an ass to ass-ess the assets.