September 4th in nerd history: The price is definitely not right
Happy Eat an Extra Dessert Day! Yeah yeah, Labor Day too, but this feels much more important.

This is The Reset Button from Classic Nerd, resetting your day.
Editors note: A few readers were quite understandably confused when we listed a certain birthday in last Friday’s newsletter — Engelbert Humperdinck. It’s a name that’s hard to forget.
It’s certainly reasonable to first think of the singer who rose to prominence in the late 1960s and ’70s with hits like “Release Me” — born in May of 1936. However, we listed a birthdate of September 1, 1854.
That’s because Engelbert Humperdinck is actually a stage name. Arnold George Dorsey adopted the name at the suggestion of Gordon Mills, a friend and music impresario. After years of struggling to break through in the music industry, Mills suggested Dorsey adopt the name of a 19th-century composer best known for his opera, The OG Humperdinck was born in 1854.



