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Padma
Sep 11, 2002, 10:12 AM
I don't know if this one has been done before, but here goes:

World History According to College Students

A few highlights from the new book, Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students. Enjoy!

"History, a record of things left behind by past generations, started in 1815. Thus we should try to view historical times as the behind of the present. This gives incite into the anals of the past."
"Civilization woozed out of the Nile about 300,000 years ago. The Nile was a river that had some water in it. Every year it would flood and irritate the land. This tended to make the people nervous."
"Judyism was the first monolithic religion. It had one big God named 'Yahoo'."
"Noah's ark came to it's end near Mt. Arafat."
"These pre-Socratics lived long before Plato and were not decisively influenced by his work."
"Plato invented reality. He was teacher to Harris Tottle, author of The Republicans."
"Socrates was accused of sophmorism and sentenced to die of hemroyds."
"Cesar inspired his men by stating, 'I came, I saw, I went'. When he was assinated, he is reported to have said, 'Me too, Brutus!'"
"Eventually Christian started the new religion with sayings like, 'The mice shall inherit the earth'. Later Christians fortunately abandoned this idea."
"Romans persacuted Christians by lionizing them in public stadiums."
"Without the discovery of the flying buttock it would have been an impossible job to build the Gothic cathedral."
(Regarding the Black Plague): "Death rates exceeded 100% in some towns."
"This was a time of stunned growth. The plague also helped the emergence of English as the national language of England, France, and Italy."
"Renaissance merchants were beautiful and almost lifelike. They enriched themselves by planting wool and selling it for clothing. They increased these profets by paying interest to people who borrowed money from them. This produced even more grits for the mills of change."
"Hitler, who had become depressed for some reason, crawled under Berlin. Here he had his wife Evita put to sleep, and then shot himself in the bonker."
"The Allies landed near Italy's toe and gradually advanced up her leg, where they hoped to find Musalini."
"Stalin, Rosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the 'big three'."
"Unfortunately the Second World War was not concluded until 1957. A whole generation had been wiped out in two world wars, and their forlorne families were left to pick up the peaces."
"The Civil Rights movement in the USA turned around the corner with Martin Luther Junior's famous 'If I Had a Hammer' speech."
"The East and West made mends with each other. The Berlin Mall was removed. Many Eastern Europeans experienced a new form of arousal at this time."
"It is now the age of now. This concept grinds our critical, seething minds to a halt."

animepornstar
Sep 11, 2002, 10:53 AM
:eek: are you sure that they not are fake?

Dell19
Sep 11, 2002, 10:57 AM
Looks fake...

Padma
Sep 11, 2002, 11:13 AM
Originally posted by animepornstar
:eek: are you sure that they not are fake? I dunno. ??

(I hope most college students aren't that stupid, but I've seen enough to wonder. :D )

Sir Lance Alot
Sep 11, 2002, 04:29 PM
Originally posted by Padma
"Unfortunately the Second World War was not concluded until 1957. A whole generation had been wiped out in two world wars, and their forlorne families were left to pick up the peaces."

I always thought WW2 ended in 1945:lol:
Proof that not everyone is smart.

Soldier
Sep 11, 2002, 04:36 PM
True story. When I was in college, I helped a friend of mine with a history paper on George Washington. In her first sentence, she said that he fought for the British during the American Revolution. I asked her how he became our first president if he fought against us. She replied: "Well, I thought we just liked him or something." She is now an elementary school teacher.

napoleon526
Sep 16, 2002, 08:57 AM
This produced even more grits for the mills of change.
This is a great metaphor. :lol:

Portuguese
Sep 16, 2002, 06:45 PM
If this had portuguese history, THEN it would be a disaster... :)

gr8ful wes
Sep 17, 2002, 08:10 AM
The grits metaphore is funny. The proper term is grist.

Portuguese
Sep 17, 2002, 03:31 PM
I don't have a clue what you are talking about... :lol:
But never mind, explained jokes loose all their funny...

stalin006
Sep 17, 2002, 05:31 PM
forgot the canadian missile crissis ^_^

Perfection
Sep 17, 2002, 05:59 PM
"Judyism was the first monolithic religion. It had one big God named 'Yahoo'."

I prefer google, what does that make me?

allhailIndia
Sep 17, 2002, 11:09 PM
:rotfl::rotfl:

Stomach....just....tore...laughing

Portuguese
Sep 18, 2002, 04:21 AM
Some countries members of the EU, according to some students of my 11th grade economics teacher:
- Australia
- New Zealand
- US
- Canada
- Russia
- China
- Angola
- Mozambique
-...

:D

Chieftess
Sep 18, 2002, 12:13 PM
I saw that somewhere... Maybe even while I was in college. ;)

One of the funniest ones being:

"The four presidents on Mt. Rushmore are Kennedy, Nixon, Reagen and Bush [Sr.]"

Aeneas of Troy
Sep 18, 2002, 02:44 PM
VERY funny, but is it real? I once read that a collage student took Latin because she wanted to work in Latin America :lol: :crazyeye: :lol:

gunning1
Sep 18, 2002, 03:46 PM
Yes, those are probably true. I have some more, but will only post them if a few people want me too.

Portuguese
Sep 18, 2002, 04:31 PM
gunning, are you kidding?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

We want more!
We want more!
We want more!

And that Latin one was really cool! :lol:

Juize
Sep 19, 2002, 10:31 AM
Some countries members of the EU, according to some students of my 11th grade economics teacher:
(..)
- Mozambique

Well, after all the Mozambique has the EU symbol, AK-47 Hilter Sniper Rifle on
it's flag, because it produced lots of 'em for EU during the 30-year war.

Therefore it could easily be mixed with EU nations; the flag doesn't tell the truth...

Portuguese
Sep 19, 2002, 03:13 PM
Originally posted by Juize


Well, after all the Mozambique has the EU symbol, AK-47 Hilter Sniper Rifle on
it's flag, because it produced lots of 'em for EU during the 30-year war.

Therefore it could easily be mixed with EU nations; the flag doesn't tell the truth...

Mozambique is a former-portuguese colony. Therefore they put the 1st countries they remembered to try tio gain some points.

EU-year war?!? :crazyeye:
It was Portuguese during Hitlers' III Reich and Portugal was neutral. What are you saying?!? :crazyeye: :crazyeye: :crazyeye:

Juize
Sep 20, 2002, 03:08 AM
Mozambique is a former-portuguese colony. Therefore they put the 1st countries they remembered to try tio gain some points.

EU-year war?!?
It was Portuguese during Hitlers' III Reich and Portugal was neutral. What are you saying?!?

Erm, my post was ment to be humorous. :mischief: