World History According to College Students
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Dude, you've missed the best one of all time:
"Sir Francis drake circumcised the world with a 20 foot clipper"
"Sir Francis drake circumcised the world with a 20 foot clipper"
"I fight with love, and I laugh with rage, you gotta live light enough to see the humour and long enough to see some change" - Ani DiFranco, Pick Yer Nose
"Life 's not a song, life isn't bliss, life is just this: it's living." - Spike, Once More with Feeling
"Life 's not a song, life isn't bliss, life is just this: it's living." - Spike, Once More with Feeling
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So true, but not in the sense the student meant it."Augustus (a.k.a. Octagenarian) founded the Roman Catholic Empire and punished those involved in sibilancy and adultery. The symbol of his authority was the cross. He put it everywhere. Augustus did have to leave the Empire due to his death."
Devolution is quite as natural as evolution, and may be just as pleasing, or even a good deal more pleasing, to God. If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.
-H.L. Mencken
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You really don't know high school and college students, do you?kojikun wrote:I very seriously doubt the authenticity of these.
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I can understand some of these mistakes, but not all.
I am sure we all have made mistakes on a timed essay accidently replacing one noun with another.
I personally have written down "Australians" when I ment "Austrians". Or some times your mind wonders to a different subject with out you relising it. For example putting the current year as your birth year with out thinking about it. This kind of stuff happens to the best of us.
When I was did an essay on Charlemagne, I add a little humor, which some of these could account for. His father was Pippin, and I made it very clear I was not talking about the hobbit.
That being said, some of the comments were definately made out of pure ignorance.
I am sure we all have made mistakes on a timed essay accidently replacing one noun with another.
I personally have written down "Australians" when I ment "Austrians". Or some times your mind wonders to a different subject with out you relising it. For example putting the current year as your birth year with out thinking about it. This kind of stuff happens to the best of us.
When I was did an essay on Charlemagne, I add a little humor, which some of these could account for. His father was Pippin, and I made it very clear I was not talking about the hobbit.
That being said, some of the comments were definately made out of pure ignorance.
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So much for Cybersex being a recent invention...Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote: "The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine.
YO, hydrogen-give it up already...
'Next time I let Superman take charge, just hit me. Real hard.'
'You're a princess from a society of immortal warriors. I'm a rich kid with issues. Lots of issues.'
'No. No dating for the Batman. It might cut into your brooding time.'
'Tactically we have multiple objectives. So we need to split into teams.'-'Dibs on the Amazon!'
'Hey, we both have a Martian's phone number on our speed dial. I think I deserve the benefit of the doubt.'
'You know, for a guy with like 50 different kinds of vision, you sure are blind.'
'You're a princess from a society of immortal warriors. I'm a rich kid with issues. Lots of issues.'
'No. No dating for the Batman. It might cut into your brooding time.'
'Tactically we have multiple objectives. So we need to split into teams.'-'Dibs on the Amazon!'
'Hey, we both have a Martian's phone number on our speed dial. I think I deserve the benefit of the doubt.'
'You know, for a guy with like 50 different kinds of vision, you sure are blind.'
Mine too. Great enough to go in my sig.HemlockGrey wrote:That's my favorite."The Assyrian program of exterminating various ethnic groups generally failed to promote cultural diversity."
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
Stuipid scientists are afraid of sacrificing people to the gods and think they can calm them down with 'science'.Master of Ossus wrote:Like all things Spanish, it is extremely dangerous.entfern wrote:My opnion of my fellow classmates has gone down considerably. . .I didn't realize that we were such an undereducated bunch
I thought El nino being bad becuse it was from Mexico and stuff like that only went till Jr. High and idiot Highschoolers. . .
More:
"As Louis XIV once said, 'L'etage cest moi.'"
"Royal absolutism thus became a progressive force, because it didn't put up with complainers."
"The Prussian army would surprise young men by grabbing them in unfair places and sending them to Shanghigh."
"Gustav Adolf Hitler perched on the Swedish throan and looked droolingly at Germany."
"England suffered Civil War between the Musketeers and the Round Ones."
"The Anglo-Dutch trade wars broke out because of trade and possibly not."
"Winston Churchill helped begin a New England colony."
"King James Stuart Charles I was beheaded in 1649 and restored with his family several years later."
"East of the back of the beyond were the Russians, who knew nothing at all during this period. A factor in this was their use of the Kinetic alphabet."
"Catherine the Great rose to power only because her husband had been murdered by his clothiers for failure to incubate."
"There was an increase in climate during the eighteenth century. Agriculture fed more people as crop yields became lower."
"Copernicus showed that the solar system rotates around the Earth."
"Sir Isaac Newton invented the Newton."
"Deism was the belief that God made the world and then stepped on it. In Deism God has no influence on daily life, but just watches like a movie, eating his candy and munching his popcorn."
"Americans, of course, wanted no involvement in the French and Indian War because they did not want to fight in India."
"The Boston Tea Party was held at Pearl Harbor."
"The Quebec Act was an Intolerable Act because it would have required Americans to learn French in school."
"Yorktown was the sight of Robert E. Lee's greatest victory. Washington defeated the Allies at Gettysberg."
"France was in a very serious state. Taxation was a great drain on the state budget. Another problem was that France was full of French people."
"Revolters demanded liberty, equality, and fraternities."
"The revolution evolved throuh monarchal, republican, and tolarian phases until Napoleon performed a coo in 1799. Napoleon was ill with bladder problems and was very tense and unrestrained. He was later troubled by Spanish gorillas, who formed a sore in his side."
"European nations had the raw materials to start an industrial revolution, but they did not have the knowledge to start a revolution and thus they were retarded."
"Robert Owen, for example, tried to set up a text tile plant. Later he tried to become his own factory."
"The Russians financed industrialization by selling bongs to foreign countries."
"An example of the importance of women during the industrial revolution was the work of Spinning Jenny, a young girl forced to work more than 40 hours a day."
"The Trans-Siberian Railroad connected Europe to California."
"Burt Einstein developed the theory of relativism."
"Prostitution, considered the world's oldest profession, got its beginnings in the nineteenth century."
"In 1848, unemployment became a crisis in Paris. Out of a city population of one million people, two million able bodies were on the loose."
"This was called the Roamantic age, because everybody moved around."
"The Irish had to imagrate to the United States because of Hitler."
"As Louis XIV once said, 'L'etage cest moi.'"
"Royal absolutism thus became a progressive force, because it didn't put up with complainers."
"The Prussian army would surprise young men by grabbing them in unfair places and sending them to Shanghigh."
"Gustav Adolf Hitler perched on the Swedish throan and looked droolingly at Germany."
"England suffered Civil War between the Musketeers and the Round Ones."
"The Anglo-Dutch trade wars broke out because of trade and possibly not."
"Winston Churchill helped begin a New England colony."
"King James Stuart Charles I was beheaded in 1649 and restored with his family several years later."
"East of the back of the beyond were the Russians, who knew nothing at all during this period. A factor in this was their use of the Kinetic alphabet."
"Catherine the Great rose to power only because her husband had been murdered by his clothiers for failure to incubate."
"There was an increase in climate during the eighteenth century. Agriculture fed more people as crop yields became lower."
"Copernicus showed that the solar system rotates around the Earth."
"Sir Isaac Newton invented the Newton."
"Deism was the belief that God made the world and then stepped on it. In Deism God has no influence on daily life, but just watches like a movie, eating his candy and munching his popcorn."
"Americans, of course, wanted no involvement in the French and Indian War because they did not want to fight in India."
"The Boston Tea Party was held at Pearl Harbor."
"The Quebec Act was an Intolerable Act because it would have required Americans to learn French in school."
"Yorktown was the sight of Robert E. Lee's greatest victory. Washington defeated the Allies at Gettysberg."
"France was in a very serious state. Taxation was a great drain on the state budget. Another problem was that France was full of French people."
"Revolters demanded liberty, equality, and fraternities."
"The revolution evolved throuh monarchal, republican, and tolarian phases until Napoleon performed a coo in 1799. Napoleon was ill with bladder problems and was very tense and unrestrained. He was later troubled by Spanish gorillas, who formed a sore in his side."
"European nations had the raw materials to start an industrial revolution, but they did not have the knowledge to start a revolution and thus they were retarded."
"Robert Owen, for example, tried to set up a text tile plant. Later he tried to become his own factory."
"The Russians financed industrialization by selling bongs to foreign countries."
"An example of the importance of women during the industrial revolution was the work of Spinning Jenny, a young girl forced to work more than 40 hours a day."
"The Trans-Siberian Railroad connected Europe to California."
"Burt Einstein developed the theory of relativism."
"Prostitution, considered the world's oldest profession, got its beginnings in the nineteenth century."
"In 1848, unemployment became a crisis in Paris. Out of a city population of one million people, two million able bodies were on the loose."
"This was called the Roamantic age, because everybody moved around."
"The Irish had to imagrate to the United States because of Hitler."
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I think my brain just melted...
"This was called the Roamantic age, because everybody moved around."
That has GOT to be intentional...
"This was called the Roamantic age, because everybody moved around."
That has GOT to be intentional...
'Next time I let Superman take charge, just hit me. Real hard.'
'You're a princess from a society of immortal warriors. I'm a rich kid with issues. Lots of issues.'
'No. No dating for the Batman. It might cut into your brooding time.'
'Tactically we have multiple objectives. So we need to split into teams.'-'Dibs on the Amazon!'
'Hey, we both have a Martian's phone number on our speed dial. I think I deserve the benefit of the doubt.'
'You know, for a guy with like 50 different kinds of vision, you sure are blind.'
'You're a princess from a society of immortal warriors. I'm a rich kid with issues. Lots of issues.'
'No. No dating for the Batman. It might cut into your brooding time.'
'Tactically we have multiple objectives. So we need to split into teams.'-'Dibs on the Amazon!'
'Hey, we both have a Martian's phone number on our speed dial. I think I deserve the benefit of the doubt.'
'You know, for a guy with like 50 different kinds of vision, you sure are blind.'
This would be funnier, I'm sure, if only I knew what "L'etage" was supposed to mean. Or maybe I'm just being slow today.Joe wrote:"As Louis XIV once said, 'L'etage cest moi.'"
Damn straight!Joe wrote:"Royal absolutism thus became a progressive force, because it didn't put up with complainers."
Obviously poli-sci. How much more CYA can you get?Joe wrote:"The Anglo-Dutch trade wars broke out because of trade and possibly not."
Joe wrote:"Deism was the belief that God made the world and then stepped on it. In Deism God has no influence on daily life, but just watches like a movie, eating his candy and munching his popcorn."
Damn French...Joe wrote:"The Quebec Act was an Intolerable Act because it would have required Americans to learn French in school."
*snip*
"France was in a very serious state. Taxation was a great drain on the state budget. Another problem was that France was full of French people."
Joe wrote:"European nations had the raw materials to start an industrial revolution, but they did not have the knowledge to start a revolution and thus they were retarded."
Yay, Europe "bashing" in here! And this is why drugs are bad. They helped Russia industrialize, thus leading to the USSR, Lenin, Stalin, and the Cold War.Joe wrote:"The Russians financed industrialization by selling bongs to foreign countries."
Damned if I ain't impressed.Joe wrote:"The Trans-Siberian Railroad connected Europe to California."
Please, keep them coming!
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
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That's...horrible...
To think that these people will rule the world...
To think that these people will rule the world...
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I do not doubt the authenticity of some of these, and this fact makes me very sad...
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