Time Wasters

Bertrand Russell was a Philospher and a Mathematician who received a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. He is reputed to have said, " There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge ". These words coming from such a learned man strongly validate my interest in this neglected area. If only I could get more people to recognise this, I too could have had a Nobel Prize for Literature in the area of Collection of Useless Information. It's probably too late for me, but in order to assist other devotees to persevere and perhaps capture this rare prize, I am quite willing to share my Useless Knowledge (Hereinafter called U.K.; not to be confused with the United Kingdom, although a lot of my U.K. collection does seem to emanate from there.)

An example of U.K.
A Lipogram is the omission of a specific letter from a written work, keeping the same meaning but substituting words that don't contain the forbidden letter. It is harder than it looks. Here is "Mary Had A Little Lamb" without the letter "s", (not my work but the creation of some anonymous time-waster.)

Mary had a little lamb
With fleece a pale white hue,
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb kept her in view;
To academe he went with her
Illegal and quite rare;
It made the children laugh and play
To view a lamb in there.

For those who may remain a little unconvinced, I finish with another aphorism from B. Russell: "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time ". This type of advice to young people might not be appreciated by dyspeptic pedagogues or passionate parents,
but to the rest of us it is an inspiration. On with the search !