Was it over when the germans bombed pearl harbor??

[mcctatas]

silly sign alert


http://praxeology.net/blog/2008/04/17/ooh-a-tough-one/

[Maddy McCall]

1. OH MY GOD! One of my 102 students was at that protest!!

Swear to god, I got that on an essay response to the final exam today.

:rofl:

[mcctatas]

4. ...

I'm speechless! How do you even critique a response like that?? :rofl:

[Maddy McCall]

6. Same student said that the Cold War was when Louis XIV invaded Russia.

You don't spend much time on it. Just give it the big fat zero and move on to the next student, hoping that some learned SOMETHING in the class.

:D

[TomInTib]

14. Damn, I wouldn't stand a chance...

can't keep any of that stuff straight...

Maybe I need Professional Help (leaning to Academia, here).

[Mind_your_head]

26. self-delete

[Mind_your_head]

28. I think you're 'on' to something there Tom......

and you're correct, it starts with an "A".

Peace & Good Will,
M_Y_H

[LiberalFighter]

23. Well the student was probably part correct. War must had been very cold in Russia.

[Maddy McCall]

39. It was! And the correct response to that exam essay...

would have been to mention Napoleon's and Hitler's failures in the Russian winters.

LOL.

[Journeyman]

24. Then you must know that, once upon a time, "Life Reeked with Joy". . .

“History,” declared Henry Ford, “is bunk.” And yet, to paraphrase George Santayana, those who forget history and the English language are condemned to mangle them. Historian Anders Henriksson, a five-year veteran of the university classroom, has faithfully recorded, from papers submitted by freshmen at McMaster University and the university of Alberta, his students' more striking insights into European history from the Middle Ages to the present. Possibly as an act of vengeance, Professor Henriksson has now assembled these individual fragments into a chronological narrative . . .


http://theody.net/reeked.html

[hootinholler]

38. OMFG! That's priceless!

An angry Martin Luther nailed 95 theocrats to a church door.

Man he was tough! Don't piss off Marty!

-Hoot

[Maddy McCall]

40. Bookmarked and just sent via email to all my colleagues...

THANK YOU!

[Journeyman]

41. There are multiple versions of this running around. . .

first time I read it -- maybe 25 years ago -- it was different from what's on the linked website. I remember there was a comment in the older version about one of the composers, Brahms I believe, that said something like "he was half English, half French, and half German. He was very large." I believe I have the older version somewhere in my archives. If I can find it, I'll email it to you.

[Maddy McCall]

44. Please do!

This is GREAT! I think I might use it as my next April Fool's lecture.

Thanks so much!

[ProgressiveFool]

43. OMG, Mr. President, is that you??? /nt

[DontTreadOnMe]

2. Yes!

Sometimes I am just so proud to be an American.

We invented Cheez-Wiz!

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. As I recall, The Soviets boycotted the US in 84 in reprisal

for the US boycott in 80. The only people it affected were the athletes.

I guess Jesse Owens didn't find out about that one.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Uh....I think we did, didn't we?

:shrug: :rofl:

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Are you saying Germany DIDN'T bomb Pearl Harbor?! Wizard!!!

Take the Truthiest Citizenship Test EVER!

[Mind_your_head]

11. Eeeeeeek.....that's a scary test

I didn't get any correct :-(

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Why do you hate America!? n/t

[Mind_your_head]

17. I don't know......*quiver*

'they' tttold me that 'no child was left behind'.....sir/ma'am.....but I sure as h*ll don't know anythang about sh*t, no sirreee bob, sir/ma'am. :scared: That's what I was taut.

[ColbertWatcher]

18. Well, you're welcome to add your own questions to the test...

...and check out all the "history" articles, too...

[Name removed]

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[ColbertWatcher]

30. I take it satire is beyond you? n/t

[Wizard777]

47. You called?

No the Germans didn't bomb Pearl Harbor. It was the Japanese.

[tavalon]

8. Um, we did

They actually started that silly little run with the torch thingy that causes so much trouble these days.

[Kitty Herder]

9. The stupid is making my head hurt.

Perhaps it's time for me to go to bed.

[ColbertWatcher]

10. You just explained why the GOP are so happy...

...they have no idea how stupid they are!

Scientific Study!

[mcctatas]

15. I believe the correct terminology is

"blissfully unaware" ;)

[ColbertWatcher]

20. You say "blissfully unaware" I say "republican"...

...no difference that I can see...

[Richard Steele]

13. Yup- I grabbed that pic last week:

[file83]

16. Isn't that John Belushi's line from Animal House?

Googling that.....

YES!! I was right:

D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
(thinks hard)
Bluto: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
(runs out, alone; then returns)

[mcctatas]

19. Yep...

One of my favorite movies of all time (of course I only admit that anonomously on the internet;) )

[file83]

21. It is one of the greatest comedies ever.

How many copycats have tried this since?

[Captain Angry]

25. Hell no! And it a'int over now.

Because when the going gets tough...

(major pause)

the tough get going! Who's with me?

:-)

My question, after seeing that sign, is how on earth do we have any say on who hosts the Olympics? We don't allow anything. The IOC makes the call, and a bad call has been made.

[Mountainman]

27. Nazi Germany did host the 1936 Olympics. Or am I missing something here?

Jesse Owens pissed of Hitler by defeating his super race.

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. And that was the first time the torch was run

No you are not missing anything.. unless this is parallel history

[ColbertWatcher]

31. It seems the bumper sticker educated have their own set of facts...n/t

[krispos42]

32. That picture makes my brain wilt

As Bill Engvall would say....

"Here's your sign"





Now somebody gimme a hammer and a sixteen penny nail so I could drive it into that freeper's forehead.

[old mark]

33. I went back to college...

...to finish my degree when I was in my 40's( 20 years ago).
Found my department head didn't know the years of the beginning and end of the Civil War, not even the decade, and little else about history, even of the Vietnam era, which she had lived through.
She had taken "Social Studies", and skipped learning that pesky "History".

Now with Mr. Bush as an example for today's young people, do we expect an improvement in eddicatin?

I am reeking with joy!

mark

[malaise]

34. I thought that was one of the funniest placards ever

It belongs in the moran hall of fame :rofl:

[taterguy]

35. The Olympics were in 1936 and the Germans weren't evil until 1941

So what's the problem?

[JVS]

36. Yeah, they were just preparing evil from 33-38 then prototypically evil until 41

[SalmonChantedEvening]

37. Make the stupid stop!!

:banghead:

[LynnTheDem]

42. Oy. Please gawd let that be deliberate humor...

and not just more stupid American shit.

The embarrassment is getting embarrassing.

[mcctatas]

45. I wish I could spare you the pain...

but, alas, it is sadly real:crazy:

[Wizard777]

46. The answer is. Yes we would have and DID.