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* In ''[[Dilbert]]'', when the company produces a product that doesn't work and its instruction manual is complete fiction. The Pointy-Headed Boss's reply: "Ship it and hope someone publishes a 'For Dummies' guide."

 

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' worlds bless dummies with the following literature:

** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has something close - [[canon]]ically, [[Fictional Document|Volo's Guides]] are an awful mix of brilliant investigations and silly hearsay. The most infamous was "Volo's Guide to All Things Magical",<ref>[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13961 on Wizards' site], free</ref> the "second edition" of which claimed that v 1.0 contained a lot of [[The Anarchist Cookbook|recipes how to kill oneself in amusing ways]] - and so much of sensitive information that Volo hesitated to introduce himself in a hearing range of other wizards ever after, and Elminster had to personally hunt down and destroy every last copy.