"Two score and seven years ago..."

[kentuck]

Where did Sarah get such an idea??

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

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

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Abraham Lincoln

[hlthe2b]

1. She is unspeakably stupid...

that is all....

[Jackpine Radical]

2. What'd she do now?

I haven't been near a boob toob, and certainly not near any broadcasts about Whitestock. So wha' hoppen?

[kentuck]

3. She started her speech today ...

with "two-score and seven years ago"...

[Swede]

4. Old hockey game?

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

5. It's a ridiculous plagarism, but mathematically she was correct.

The term "score" is old shorthand for 20. For example, some biblical translations show the "number of the beast" in Revelations as "six hundred, three score, and six"

Abe Lincoln made his speech 87 years after the Constitution was written, hence "four score and seven". And this lame ass event today was on the 47th anniversary of Dr. King's speech. So "two score and seven" is technically correct, though it really sounds stupid coming out of her mouth. And nobody's used "score" in that context since, well probably Abe Lincoln.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. "Score" dates back to the old 12-and-20 numbering system

common in northern Europe and enshrined in the now-defunct pounds, pence & shillings coinage of England.

[Atticus]

7. And, in another one of those amazing coincidences, "two score and seven" was also

the average IQ around the reflecting pool today. Ain't numbers fun?