Our Backyard — The Official Explanations

Our Backyard

THE OFFICIAL EXPLANATIONS

Throughout history, our lives have been intermingled with people from all walks of life, bombarding us with little quips of knowledge, often ironic in nature, telling us how life really is. I think we all would like to be remembered by a philosophical ‘one liner’ that has our ‘name on him’, so that we might be forever immortalised.

Although released in 1980, Paul Dickson, in his book ‘The Official Explanations’ (and of ‘The Official Rules’), has collected many of these. Of course, ‘new’ morsels of knowledge are being procured as we...

(Full article available in the October 2026 PDF.)

Bob Marshall.