I recently read a good mystery in which the author made reference to the Niagara Escarpment’s Precambrian Shield geology… the problem being, the Bruce Peninsula’s exposed rock formations are not at all connected to the Precambrian Shield. Come evening I mentioned the book’s misstep to Jane, my wife. She felt I was nitpicking. Then again she wasn’t a geography major.

Same evening, we watched Sam Gamgee free his pack horse before entering the mines of Moria (Lord of the Ring trilogy, movie 1). But wait…. the ‘Fellowship’ had no pack horse on their journey to the mines (unlike the book). This time, Jane and I went to bed agreeing that was indeed a big blunder.

But nothing compares with William Shatner’s cover of ‘Lucy in the Skies with Diamonds.’