"Common Sense, Not by Thomas Paine"

My brother, who is twenty years old is starting to write a book. It's called Commen Sense, Not by Thomas Paine. It is a book of theorems. It's about nearly everyone, but it is about things that happen in this world that everyone is aware of, but they don't acknowledge it. Here's some examples.

One theory is that you can base the elegance and wealth of a restaurant by how high the stalls are in the bathroom. Think about it, when you walk into a cruddy restaurant bathroom, the stalls aren't very nice, and they're certainly not high. But when you walk into a nice restaurant's bathroom, the stalls are very, spacious, and extremely tall. However, the theory does become false when there are no stalls (it's just a room) or when restaurants have been open for a long time (say, since the eighties or early nineties). These older restaurants would probably not change the height of the stalls in the bathrooms if they don't really need to. Thus, the theorem should be modified to this: "One can base newer restaurants by the height of their stalls in their restaurants."

Another theory is that when you hug someone, the pat on the back marks the end of the hug. I believe this one to be all true. Just think about. You are hugging someone for two seconds, and then the person you hug starts patting you on the back. You instantly disembrace.

Since my brother is a Jewish white kid, he is not too cultured with other kinds of people. He's definitely not racist, but he sometimes makes false conjectures, such as this one: Asian people either look really young or really old for the age. This is true, only if he bases his facts on what he sees in the movies or on television because often, these Asian people do look very young or very old. But I happen to know various people that would make this theorem untrue.

I hope that my brother has a success with his book, and I think that it's a very intriguing subject. However, he needs to make sure that all of theories are completely true, and that there isn't one example that could make it not true.