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Published on November 15, 2005 By dharmagrl In Misc

The following are actual excerpts taken from history essays written by British schoolchildren.

If this is an indication of the future of England....then gawd help us all. 

The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain.


The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, once asked, "Am I my brother's son?" God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brother's birth mark. Jacob was a patriarch who brought up his twelve sons to be patriarchs, but they did not take to it. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.


Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the Ten Commandments. David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. He fought with the Philatelists, a race of people who lived in Biblical times. Solomon, one of David's sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines.


Without the Greeks we wouldn't have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns - Corinthian, Doric, and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intollerable. Achilles appears in The Iliad, by Homer. Homer also wrote The Oddity, in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.


Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.


In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath. The government of Athens was democratic because people took the law into their own hands. There were no wars in Greece, as the mountains were so high that they couldn't climb over to see what their neighbors were doing. When they fought with the Persians, the Greeks were outnumbered because the Persians had more men.

 

Did you laugh?  I did.  The sad thing is I can think of a couple of people who would write something akin to these....and neither of them are British! 

Seems stupidity is a multi-culture problem.


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on Nov 15, 2005

Here's some more little gems for your reading pleasure:

 

Eventually, the Ramons conquered the Geeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlics in their hair. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them.


Then came the Middle Ages. King Alfred conquered the Dames. King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery. King Harold mustarded his troops before the Battle of Hastings. Joan of Arc was cannonized by Bernard Shaw, and victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks. Finally the Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense.


In midevil times most of the people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the time was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature. Another tale tells of William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.


The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. It was the painter Donatello's interest in the female nude that made him the father of the Renaissance. It was an age of great invention and discoveries. Gutenberg invented the Bible. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes. Another important invention was the circulation of blood.


Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.


The government of England was a limited mockery. Henry VIII found walking difficult because he had an abbess on his knee. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted, "hurrah." Then her navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo.


The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespear. Shakespear never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He lived at Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies, and errors.


In one of Shakespear's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. In another, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Writing at the same time as Shakespear was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

 

No stupid people?  Sorry, but I think that this is a pretty good example of stupidity.

on Nov 15, 2005

Hurled the Biscuits?  I guess that was the start of the vometoriums!

on Nov 15, 2005

These are great, I'm going to email them to Simon, lol.

 

Yeah, he'll get a kick out of them.  I was laughing my ass off!

Posted: Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Hurled the Biscuits? I guess that was the start of the vometoriums!

Biscuits, discus, it's all the same. 

I'm just blown away that people are that dumb.  It makes me wonder how they make it through the day without hurting themselves.

 

on Nov 15, 2005
I've read American examples like these too... please tell me these are from younger students rather than kids in high school.
on Nov 15, 2005
My favourite from this part of the world is as follows:
'Captain Cook circumcised Australia with a 200 foot clipper.'
(I guess the result was probably Tasmania!)
on Nov 15, 2005

My favourite from this part of the world is as follows:
'Captain Cook circumcised Australia with a 200 foot clipper.'
(I guess the result was probably Tasmania!)

on Nov 15, 2005
please tell me these are from younger students rather than kids in high school.


These are the products of 13, 14, 15 and 16 year olds.

Yeah, I know. It scares me too.

'Captain Cook circumcised Australia with a 200 foot clipper.'
(I guess the result was probably Tasmania!)


BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, now I've dislodged that chunk of apple from my trachea (inhaled it when I saw your response)...that was friggin' hilarious!!!!!!!!!!
on Nov 15, 2005
These are the products of 13, 14, 15 and 16 year olds.


One word comes to mind: YIKES!