Oh, H.E. Double Toothpicks!

I stand corrected. Kitsy Starling has taken me down a notch and rightly so, from the sounds of things.

Talking about The Toothpick: Technology and Culture, by Henry Petroski

and referencing Which Came First…

Kitsy’s words (posted in a comment, but that does not seem adequate):
Check it out; the interviewer was a little off. There are no footnotes in this book, per se. There are endnotes, which is a very different thing in the publishing world.

If there’s anything Petroski and his books aren’t, it’s pedantic or stuffy.

Oh, H.E. Double Hockey Sticks