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(well, by Glenice and Susie, but they’re popular!)
Revenge of the College Essays
A few days back – last week I think – I gave you excerpts from the book Non Campus Mentis, look there for proper legal citation stuff. Remember, these are real! Oh, girls – these aren’t from the old blog.
If you disagreed with the church you were accused of hear say and treated to excomunication. An important example of this was the Catheter movement in southern
Medieval builders gave God his usual chair in the church roof. In a Romanesque church the stone roof is held up by a system of peers. (Stone roofs have peers?) The usual design was a long knave split by a crosshair. (Ouch) Without the discovery of the flying buttock it would have been an impossible job to build the Gothic cathedral. (Yeah, those flying buttocks were a great discovery)
Two hundred years of rule by the Tarts explains why
In the 1400 hundreds most Englishmen were perpendicular.
Women were nowhere to be found. (which is bad if you are lying around perpendicular for nothing)
Escaped peseants could be free if they went to a city and hid there for a hundred years and a day. (Really, you think that would work?)
Monks failed to practice morals between their prayers. The Council of Constance failed to solve this even though Constance herself tried very hard. Followers of Wyclif were known as Mallards. (
Machiavelli, who was often unemployed, wrote The Prince to get a job with Richard Nixon. (Tricky Dick strikes again.)
Henry VIII divorced his original wife, who had become old and impregnable.
As queen,
Charles V spent most of his reign aging. (I hate when they do that.)
This was the beginning of Empire when Europeans felt the need to reach out and smack someone. (So that’s when it began.)
Francis Drake was permitted by Queen Elizabeth to sail the seas and find illegal things to do with the Spanish. (Oooh, Antonio Banderas?)
And finally, as always, what I consider the best of the day.
Balboa was first to lay down his eyes on the
Yesterday we were 17 degrees warmer than normal. It is now 90 - end of discussion.
and yet how sad
? I bet half the people reading this (I don't mean us, of course or anyone who buys the book LOL) don't even know these are total bloopers. Some of them, I can't even figure out what they are supposed to mean, e.g., "perpendicular". It's really scary
. Well, I'd better not get on my
. If I do, I'll never get
. Thanks for the laughs of my last 24-hour period, sure didn't have many others.