Posted on 09/30/2013 2:37:16 AM PDT by Islander7
Read any of Richard Armour’s works, especially “It All Started With Columbus”.
“Every morning the Puritans went out to the fields in their blunderbusses & sowed grain, fertilizing it with the bodies of the original inhabitants.”
;^)
My bad. Norm Crosby is still alive and kicking!
Read any of Richard Armour’s works, especially “It All Started With Columbus”.
...his takes on Shakespeare were remarkably funny...
A few years ago, Sean Hannity sent a reporter out into the streets of New York to ask passersby why we celebrate July 4. None of the respondents came even close to giving a correct answer. But what floored me was that the reporter herself didn’t know what we celebrate on July 4—if I remember correctly, she thought it was the end of WWII.
A story like this is compiled from little mistakes.
For example, when I was in 7th grade we had a quiz bowl kind of thing in history class on one of the days where a vacation was coming up and it didn’t make sense to start the next chapter. I quickly raised my hand when asked the names of one of the first people to walk on the moon. “Armstrong!” I shouted out when called on. The teacher asked for a first name and I couldn’t remember Neil so with all eyes on me and in the pressure of the moment I blurted out the first Armstrong I could think of. “Louie!”
Put a whole bunch of those incidents together and you get a story like this.
My husband is a pastor and some of the innocent bloopers are just funny. We have a devotion book that our synod puts out that is called “Portals of Prayer”, but one shut-in parishioner used to always ask him if he brought her a “Portable Prayers”. Another gal we know talked about the church she attends in town which is really called “Radiant Springs”. To Heidi, though, it was always Radiator Springs. Too much “Cars”, I think, but it was an innocent mistake from an innocent-minded person. The spell-check in our office must not have recognized the word Pilate because in the Apostles’ Creed there in the bulletin we learned that Jesus “suffered under Pontious Pilot”. And we thought the Wright brothers invented the airplane millenia later! At least it was phonetically correct; my sister was confirmed with a girl who always pronounced that name like ponteous pill-latey...
I’m glad there’s always something in life that we can laugh at (pardon the dangling participle there. My English teacher would hang me; he always said dangling participles are something up with which we should not put...)
bfl
Armour’s “Twisted Tales From Shakespeare” made the drowning of Hamlet’s sister Ophelia seem funny, especially the crosseyed cartoon of that tragic figure.
lol!
/mark
History isn’t taught well—that is all. Also—too much of our history is Propaganda with a leftist/White Guilt bend. More about the KKK than Thomas Alva Edison.
The author certainly has a way with words.
De-nial is a river that runs through Egypt.
and these things vote... RAT!!!
Gladly the constipated cross-eyed bear. Aka Gladly the consecrated cross I’d bear.
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