Have you guys ever played Apples to Apples? It’s a game where each turn one player, the judge, has a card on which is printed an adjective. Everyone has a hand of cards with proper nouns or events, like some random actor, historical figure, or war or something. Each player throws in a card that they think best embodies the adjective the judge has given, and the judge picks a winner.

So this one time we were playing and the adjective was “useless”. Guess which card won? Helen Keller.

This other time we were playing the adjective was “ridiculous”. Guess which card was close to winning? Helen Keller. When asked why she threw that card down, my friend said “It was ridiculous that her mother didn’t abort her.”