Archive for June, 2007
Funny essays by kids
These are actual stories written in essays by kids in their history classes:
- Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
- The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
- 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. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
- In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
- Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
- 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. Dying, he gasped out: “Tee hee, Brutus.”
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Funny Palindromes
Try reading these sentences forwards and backwards – palindromes are funny and interesting because they are read the same way.
“A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.”
“Aid nine men, India.”
“Anne, I vote no one to Vienna.”
“A Toyota: race fast, safe car: a Toyota.”
“Boston did not sob.”
“Cain: a maniac.”
“Campus motto: ‘Bottoms up, Mac.’”
“Can I attain a ‘C’?”
“Dennis sinned.”
“Dentist: ‘Sit, Ned.’”
“Desserts, I stressed!”
“Did Joe kill like O.J. did?”
“Do geese see God?”
“Go deliver a dare, vile dog!”
“Go hang a salami! I’m a lasagna hog!”
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