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It's July 29th, 2014 from Slate Hits the Gist, I'm Mike Pesca. Read an interesting story

about Amelia Bedelia today. You know, Amelia Bedelia, let me read from Wikipedia. Amelia Bedelia

is the protagonist and title character of a series of American children's books that involve

Amelia, repeatedly misunderstanding various commands of her employer by always taking figures of

speech literally causing her to perform incorrect actions with a comical effect. All right, so I'll

give you a couple examples of what Amelia Bedelia does. When she's told to dust the furniture,

she puts dust on the furniture and then of course has to be told to undust the furniture. When

told to make a sponge cake, she bakes real sponges inside a cake. So that's Amelia Bedelia.

And the Wikipedia description is central to this story because today in the daily. I came across

I accidentally started a Wikipedia hoax. Here, E.J. Dixon writes about the time she was a college

sophomore in 2009. She came back from a trip to McDonald's with her friend and while pretty high

began adding erroneous information to the Wikipedia pages of a lot of fictional children's characters.

Dixon's contribution to the Amelia Bedelia page was this. Amelia Bedelia's character is based on a

made in Cameroon where the author spent some time during her formative years. Her vast collection of

hats notorious for their extensive plumage inspired parish that's the author to write an assortment

of tales based on her experiences in the north or just in north. Dixon made that up. Like I said,

she was stoned. She'd just come back from McDonald's. But then a couple weeks ago,

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