I offer the following links to prove (or at least lend credence to) my theory that history would be a laugh riot if the right people were allowed to wright the textbooks:
The first great antismoking campaign:
http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970623/wayback1.htmlThe great Molasses flood of 1919:
http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970519/wayback1.htmlThe Scientific Rainmaker:
http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970915/wayback.html
If there was more of this and less of the generally dessicated stuff they insist HISTORY consists of. Almost nobody remembers who Louis Cugnot was, but nearly everyone remembers the guy who invented peanut butter.
--Baloo
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"Someday your ship will come in...and you'll be at the airport "
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Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.
~Groucho Marx, "Animal Crackers"
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"Angels, answer me,
are you near if rain should fall?
Am I to believe
you will rise to calm the storm?
For so great a treasure words will never do.
Surely, if this is, promises are mine to give you.
mine to give........ "
~ Enya
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Nurse: Can I help you?
Stan: We're here to commit our friend, Kyle.
Nurse: Reason?
Kyle: I'm a clinically depressed fecalpheliac on Prozac.
Nurse: JACKET!!