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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 06:18 AM
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What the historians neglected to tell you.
The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years (burp) ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in (BURP) Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great (BURPPPPPPPP) civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great (BREEEEEEEEEEEP) battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place (BUREEEEEEEE) for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this...

*After the address, President Lincoln was overheard whispering to a staff member "Next time, motherfucker, make goddamn sure that I have a glass of water at the podium. instead of Diet Pepsi".

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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 06:20 AM
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1. Why would Lincoln want a Southern beverage during the Gettysburg Address?
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 06:21 AM
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2. He was stoned out of his fucking mind.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 07:55 AM
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3. I always loved Gary Larson's take on that address
You're looking over Lincoln's shoulder as he delivers it, and you can read his notes:

And so the bartender says, "Hey! That's not a duck!"

(Wait for laughter)

Four score and seven years ago...
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 12:42 PM
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4. Hahahaha!
Love it! :rofl:
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