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Line 2: {{quote\|''"All of the historical oddities and amazing true facts contained herein are lies, made up by me -- and it is this astonishing innovation that allows each entry to contain more truths than if it were merely factual... Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies, or for that matter, as true. Proof of which maxim is the fact that I just made it up."''\|from the audiobook introduction}} Short for:~~<br~~ />''An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order by Me, John Hodgman, a Professional Writer, in '''[[Title Drop\|the Areas of My Expertise]]''', which Include: Matters Historical; Matters Literary; Matters Cryptozoological; Hobo Matters; Food, Drink, & Cheese (a Kind of Food); Squirrels & Lobsters & Eels; Haircuts; Utopia; What Will Happen in the Future; and Most Other Subjects; Illustrated with a Reasonable Number of Tables and Figures, and Featuring the Best of "Were You Aware of It?", John Hodgman's Long-Running Newspaper Novelty Column of Strange Facts and Oddities of the Bizarre''. As the name implies, it is a book of trivia written by John Hodgman, better known as [[Mascot\|a PC]], and as ''[[The Daily Show]]'''s "Resident Expert". Every single fact in it is a lie ... or is it? Line 11: The first in the ''[[Complete World Knowledge]]'' trilogy, followed by ''[[More Information Than You Require]]'' and ''[[That Is All]]''. ---- {{tropelist\|''The Areas of My Expertise'' provides examples of, and parodies, the following tropes:}} ~~{{tropelist}}~~ * [[Alien Geometries]]: One house with a 666 phone number is described as having no right angles. * [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: Subverted: The Skulls and Bones are said to have failed in their bid for world domination, and now spend all their time masturbating and tending to the pterodactyls on their private island. The Masonic symbols allegedly hidden in Washington DC's architecture are also parodied. Line 76 ⟶ 77: ---- ~~===~~ {{examples\|Hodgman also gives us The Fifty-Five Dramatic Situations: ~~===~~}} {\| class="wikitable" Line 109 ⟶ 110: [[Category:Comic Literature]] [[Category:Non-Fiction Literature]] [[Category:The Great Depression]]▼ [[Category:The Areas of My Expertise]] [[Category:Books on Trope]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] ▲[[Category:~~The~~Cult ~~Great Depression~~Classic]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Areas of My Expertise, The}}