Best Footnote Ever
In the long history of entertaining footnotes – okay, maybe it’s not that long – this is surely up there with the best.
This is truly the craziest footnote I have ever seen #twitterstorians pic.twitter.com/Sylg24CHYd
— Kara Schlichting (@KaraSchlichting) May 9, 2019
And it prompted people to share their own favourites.
This will forever remain one of my favorite footnotes. pic.twitter.com/HhNK854vAP
— Salim KAli (@SyntheticAli) May 9, 2019
Then there's this one: pic.twitter.com/V1TAcxS9cD
— Heath Sledge (@marigolds) May 9, 2019
My personal favourite: not a footnote, but a reference, from Jessie Weston's /From Ritual to Romance/ (ch. 8 if I remember correctly) pic.twitter.com/BfX8688JJd
— Rob Mitchelmore (@kerastion) May 9, 2019
Wut the! That's better than this footnote I found in a collected volume of Prominent Scholars during my first semester of grad school. pic.twitter.com/feEtua9BEH
— Ryan Driskell Tate (@rydriskelltate) May 9, 2019
