Everyday People series of Toyota commercials in the late 1990s. The song's title is mentioned in the hit song by Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You (For Lettin Me Be Myself Again)" in the third verse, along with their other hit "Dance to the Music". Soul singer Billy Paul covered the song on his 1970 album "Ebony Woman". Joan Jett's version appears on her 1983 release "Album". "Everyday People" by Ta Mara and the Seen was a minor hit in the Philippines in 1988. Aretha Franklin performed a version of the song for her 1991 album "What You See Is What
The Man Who Had No Idea The Man Who Had No Idea "The Man Who Had No Idea" is a 1978 science fiction story by Thomas M. Disch. It was first published in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction". In a world where licenses are required in order to participate in conversation, Barry Riordan risks failing his exam because he cannot think of anything original. "The Man Who Had No Idea" was a finalist for the 1979 Hugo Award for Best Novelette John Sladek considered it to depict "delightful problems". "Kirkus Reviews" noted that it "say(s) a great deal about our expectations of ourselves and