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If you aren’t reading the Dilbert blog, you should be. Unless you don’t like things that are funny, often in a sarcastic way.

In catching up on old feeds, I came across this post where he analyzes various “common knowledge” threats to society, such as:

When I was a kid, it was common knowledge that you would get cramps and drown if you went swimming within an hour of eating. It never occurred to me that if eating and swimming was a deadly combination, the bottom of every pool would be covered with corpses. I never heard of anyone perishing from a sandwich-related drowning. It turns out there was a good reason: Eating before swimming doesn’t cause cramps after all.

He goes on in the rest of the post to reflect similarly on cell phones crashing planes, getting AIDS from oral sex, the deadly danger of terrorism that we as Americans must live in ever-vigilant fear of, vegetarians not getting enough protein, and, of course, the many perils of drinking diet soda.

For a more straightforward joke, see the adjacent post about politeness.