[BGHater]

Columbus, again, laddy.

[syriacus]

Those canny Scots.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Scotland Forever, baby!

[ClearCase_guy]

Actually, thr truth is more surprising:

His first name was neither Christopher, nor Pedro -- he was baptized "William". In addition, he was not born with the last name Scotto, nor did he adopt the name Columbus -- throughout his life he used his family name of "Shakespeare". Lastly, the man had a pathological fear of boats and never went to sea. He made his living writing plays in England.

Hope this clears up the mystery.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

[Liberty Valance]

Now that you mention it
I think I see the resemblence

[6SJ7]

“The sails can’t take much more of this!”

[longtermmemmory]

that’s funny, i saw an article that said christopher columbus was of Greek descent...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1241735/posts

actually if you do an internet search of “christopher columbus chios” and a who bunch of stuff pops up.

[MaestroLC]

The historian has also claimed that the navigator once worked for a pirate called Vincenzo Columbus

Naturally for this 'historian', pirates also comes into the Columbus narrative...arrrr!

I am the Pirate King!!

[Oldpuppymax]

I thought somebody said he was actually Hungarian...and of royal blood! Oh wait. That’s from Pygmalion! Never mind.

[JRios1968]

[Billthedrill]

There’s a town in Ohio that’s gonna be scrambling. Not to mention a country in South America.

[dfwgator]

The Blancmanges must have turned Columbus into a Scotsman. This can mean only one thing:

THEY MEAN TO WIN WIMBLEDON

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve seen this one:
http://columbus.vanderkrogt.net/us_ne/syracuse.html

For those who wanna look, there are at least a handful of topics regarding Columbus’ origin — a Jew, a Greek, a Basque, etc — and while I’m doubtin’ this (to say the least), Columbus did make a trip to Iceland to find out what the locals knew about the old Viking trips to the Americas.

[Gator113]

I’m fine with this.

However, as a Scotsman by blood myself, I must say that we don’t claim Arlen Specter..... we think he’s Irish. ;>)

[eleni121]

de Villalonga demonstrates his gross ignorance by associating identity with complexion.

[Ken H]

It was NOT Christopher Columbus who sailed to the New World. It was a different guy with the same name.

[ZULU]

Like no Italians ever had freckles or red hair.

Columbus is a mistery man in many ways, but this is probably the most hallucinatory of theories about the guy’s origin.

“In 1492 Pedro the Scotsman sailed the Ocean Blue”

Nahh. Not catchy at all.

Pedro the Scotsman??

[Joe 6-pack]

[J40000]

Chris O’Columbus!