Mental Floss is what it is. It's about people learning information they always thought they should know.

It's good training for a writer, ... entertaining people, telling them about your life, listening as they tell you about theirs.

Never floss with a stranger.

Some people thought that it was going to be a learning process because we got young guards, but all he's doing is showing everybody that they're wrong.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game