by slimmouse » Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:21 am
<br> Just been reminded of this link, which I dug up to send to an old friend.<br> <br> Thought it might cheer a few up here.<br><br> Purported Quotes from US history students in exams. Im wondering how many of these guys actually made their way into the Presidential Speech writing machine ?<br><br> A quick selection followed by the link ;<br><br> "The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained."<br><br>"Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper."<br><br> "Hitler's instrumentality of terror was the Gespacho."<br><br> "History is nothing more than the behind of the present."<br><br> "The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth."<br><br> "Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head."<br><br> "Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic."<br><br>"The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men."<br><br> <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br> Full link ;<br><br> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.dribbleglass.com/Jokes/history.htm">www.dribbleglass.com/Jokes/history.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>