History according to 6th graders

[BlueD]

Thanks bluedragonfly for bringing back two rather pleasant memories. I remember the first time I heard a similar statement about our old historical figure, Sir Francis Drake. Everyone knows there is no circumcised Englishman. Thanks for that laugh.

Next, I realized you were from Idaho, and I remembered that I noticed that you were uncut as we say here. Given when you were born, it is a rare dude like a few of us old timers here in the states who are not circumcised, so Sir Francis missed a few of us.

I lived in Idaho years ago, in the city of Boise, and the scandal of that day was a book titled, The Boys of Boise. If you are interested in gay history in Idaho, it is required reading, and was published in the early 1960's if all the copies have not been burned in Idaho by this time. There was once a copy in the Boise Public Library.
Shep+

Shep, thank you for the very nice and pleasant comment. If there is a chance, I will try and find that book. Is there a character like you in there?

 

[Croynan]

children are so wonderful. why do they (we) have to lose our innocence?

maybe if there were more innocence in the world, the world would be a better place to live.

f****g adulthood.

eM.​

 

[Kulindahr]

I've read maybe half of those before, but never all in one place -- that's almost a deadly combination!

Thanks for those -- I haven't laughed in a while.



And I can believe they're from sixth graders... and right up to college. Geology professors still have to deal with the serious sorority blond gals asserting that the three major types of rocks are "ingenious, sedentary, and metaphoric", and physic papers still assert that "there was no gravity until Sir Izak Newton got hit on the head by an apple and learned it was like the moon".

 

[LaloGS]

Actual answers to 6th grade history tests
(Note: Spelling mistakes are not typos. They are as written by the children.)

Uh Oh, me thinks you have been had if you thinks 6th graders have this kind of vocabulary.

I used to write technical documentation for AT&T employees, and my writers were restricted to using 3rd grade vocabulary because most of the end users only had a 3rd grade vocabulary.

Somebody pulled your leg.

 

[star-warrior]

Oh, that nearly ruptured my innards!

 

[smile86]

how many do you reckon have died from the tragic overdose of wedlock? hehe

 

[Jeimuzu]

The Paradise Lost quote is fantastic

 

[darcey]

Who knew Francis Drake was Jewish?!? And I guess one should be thankful that Milton didn't write "Paradise Rogain". Thanks for the laugh (but my sides still ache).

 

[LarsVenice]

Thanks! I hadn't seen those before. I saved them to a word file for future reference!

Here's some that I think are even older - 25 bad analogies.

(I almost missed the "Sarah" Desert spelling!) I'll have to print these out for my mother.

 

[Kulindahr]

Uh Oh, me thinks you have been had if you thinks 6th graders have this kind of vocabulary.

I used to write technical documentation for AT&T employees, and my writers were restricted to using 3rd grade vocabulary because most of the end users only had a 3rd grade vocabulary.

Somebody pulled your leg.

Have you watched "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?"?

Those kids have that kind of vocabulary... it doesn't last, but while they're studying the stuff, they have it.

 

[Kulindahr]

Thanks! I hadn't seen those before. I saved them to a word file for future reference!

Here's some that I think are even older - 25 bad analogies.

(I almost missed the "Sarah" Desert spelling!) I'll have to print these out for my mother.

These are the best:

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.