it's not that we don't know the simple past tense of the verb drink - it's that we can't remember what the terminology "simple past tense" means

are you smarter than a 5th grader? well, that's really relative, isn't it? i mean, these crazy little facts from school that we all memorized by rote - the 5th graders are likely to clean up in a contest based on those because they know the vocabulary used to describe them.

* the simple past tense of drink is drank.
* the most prevalent element in the earth's atmosphere is nitrogen.
* if march 1 falls on a wednesday, april first falls on a saturday.
* the first secretary of the us treasury was alexander hamilton.

google for clinton 93 and you will find more news articles on this topic. note that "u.s. attorneys...are presidential appointees ". also note that "midterm firings are unusual" with "five instances over 25 years in which u.s. attorneys were fired or resigned in the middle of a presidential term". unusual, but not unheard of. and, the article goes on to explain only 2 of the five instances. that is assuming the 5 are individuals -- any one of the "five instances" could have involved more than one individual. it's not as simple as they'd have us believe, and it is important to dig deeper.

cbs didn't care what don imus said until the advertisers withdrew their money. but, there's not time to go into all that now.

suffice it to say that nothing is as simple as they'd have us believe.