Lead Pipes and Informed Misconceptions
When I was twelve or thirteen I played Clue for the first time. We had gotten the board game for Christmas one year as a family gift. The game is basically a process of elimination mystery game, for those unfamiliar, and one of the things you need to solve is which of the six weapon options was used to kill the victim. The weapons in the classic game are a candlestick, knife, revolver, rope, wrench, and lead pipe. Now at the time, the fact that it was specifically a lead pipe seemed significant, especially since none of the other weapons had their composition designated. I was familiar with the concept of lead poisoning, so obviously the lead pipe was used to kill the victim through poisoning, otherwise why did it matter that it was a lead pipe? I was eventually disabused of that notion, but I still find it irksome. Especially since three out of the six weapons were apparently used as a bludgeon: the candlestick, wrench, and lead pipe...