Carol, Are you sure Lenkner didn't write that ??? "Carol S." wrote: > > I can't help it! Must send some of these chuckles on, although they don't relate to genealogy Carol S: > > A Christmas gift book: NON CAMPUS MENTIS, compiled by Professor Anders Henriksson, published by Workman Publisher, New York. > > World history according to college students: All quotes are as written in the book. > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > History, a record of things left behind by past generations, started in 1815. Thus we should try to view historical times as the behind of the present. This gives incite into the anals of the past. > > >From the secondary sources we are given hindsight into the future. Hindsight, after all, is caused by a lack of foresight. ... > > Civilization woozed out of the Nile about 300,000 years ago. The Nile was a river that had some water in it. Every year it would flood and irritate the land. This tended to make the people nervous. > > The pyramids were large square triangles built in the desert. O'Cyrus, a god who lived in a pyramid, would give you the afterlife if your sole was on straight. > > Judyism had one big God named "Yahoo". > > The Parthenonon was Pericles greatest erection. > > Socrates was accused of sophmorism and sentenced to die of hemroyds. > > U.Clid proved that there is more than one side to every plain. > > Archimedes made the first steamboat and power drill. > > During the Dark Ages it was mostly dark. > > Monks simply preyed by day and played by night. > > Margo Polo visited Kukla Kahn, who rained in China at the time. > > Machiavelli, who was often unemployed wrote The Prince to get a job with Richard Nixon. > > Italy, of course was much closer to the rest of the world, thanks to northern Europe. > > The invention of the sex tent helped to determine place and orientation at sea. > > The Vikings, of course had already saled as far as Colorado, where several of their campsights can still be visited today. > > The Holy Omen empire soon collapsed... > > Philosophy was based on falsies and this led to shaky foundations. > > Another problem was that France was full of French people... > > Telephones were not available - communication went by mouth to mouth or telegram. The Interstate Highway System was built soon after the Civil War. The Trans-Siberian Railroad connected Europe to California. Urban mass transet included subways and electric tramps. The airplane was invented and first flown by the Marx brothers. Burt Einstein developed the theory of relativism. > > East and West made mends with each other. The Berlin Mall was removed... > > ==== PA-PITTSBURGH Mailing List ==== > SUE* MCALISTER-Pittsburgh List Mom > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Hey Mac, Glad you made it through New Year's Eve. I was gettiing worried. Sounds as though all of you Phone Booth members are bright eyed and bushy tailed today. Your repartee has brightened my day. Let me know when the next meeting is so I can fly in on my broom. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU!!!! Teeny Bop ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred C McCutcheon" <fredcmcc@usaor.net> To: <PA-PITTSBURGH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [PITTSBURGH] Can't help but... > Carol, Are you sure Lenkner didn't write that ??? > > > "Carol S." wrote: > > > > I can't help it! Must send some of these chuckles on, although they don't relate to genealogy Carol S: > > > > A Christmas gift book: NON CAMPUS MENTIS, compiled by Professor Anders Henriksson, published by Workman Publisher, New York. > > > > World history according to college students: All quotes are as written in the book. > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > History, a record of things left behind by past generations, started in 1815. Thus we should try to view historical times as the behind of the present. This gives incite into the anals of the past. > > > > >From the secondary sources we are given hindsight into the future. Hindsight, after all, is caused by a lack of foresight. ... > > > > Civilization woozed out of the Nile about 300,000 years ago. The Nile was a river that had some water in it. Every year it would flood and irritate the land. This tended to make the people nervous. > > > > The pyramids were large square triangles built in the desert. O'Cyrus, a god who lived in a pyramid, would give you the afterlife if your sole was on straight. > > > > Judyism had one big God named "Yahoo". > > > > The Parthenonon was Pericles greatest erection. > > > > Socrates was accused of sophmorism and sentenced to die of hemroyds. > > > > U.Clid proved that there is more than one side to every plain. > > > > Archimedes made the first steamboat and power drill. > > > > During the Dark Ages it was mostly dark. > > > > Monks simply preyed by day and played by night. > > > > Margo Polo visited Kukla Kahn, who rained in China at the time. > > > > Machiavelli, who was often unemployed wrote The Prince to get a job with Richard Nixon. > > > > Italy, of course was much closer to the rest of the world, thanks to northern Europe. > > > > The invention of the sex tent helped to determine place and orientation at sea. > > > > The Vikings, of course had already saled as far as Colorado, where several of their campsights can still be visited today. > > > > The Holy Omen empire soon collapsed... > > > > Philosophy was based on falsies and this led to shaky foundations. > > > > Another problem was that France was full of French people... > > > > Telephones were not available - communication went by mouth to mouth or telegram. The Interstate Highway System was built soon after the Civil War. The Trans-Siberian Railroad connected Europe to California. Urban mass transet included subways and electric tramps. The airplane was invented and first flown by the Marx brothers. Burt Einstein developed the theory of relativism. > > > > East and West made mends with each other. The Berlin Mall was removed... > > > > ==== PA-PITTSBURGH Mailing List ==== > > SUE* MCALISTER-Pittsburgh List Mom > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== PA-PITTSBURGH Mailing List ==== > Check out these COMMUNITY LISTS: MyStErY, Horror, SAHM, M-W-C, Nost-TV, Palm-Gen, and Westie > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Nothing is a SURE THING except of course death and taxes. . Carol S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred C McCutcheon" <fredcmcc@usaor.net> To: <PA-PITTSBURGH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [PITTSBURGH] Can't help but... > Carol, Are you sure Lenkner didn't write that ??? > > > "Carol S." wrote: > > > > I can't help it! Must send some of these chuckles on, although they don't relate to genealogy Carol S: > > > > A Christmas gift book: NON CAMPUS MENTIS, compiled by Professor Anders Henriksson, published by Workman Publisher, New York. > > > > World history according to college students: All quotes are as written in the book. > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > History, a record of things left behind by past generations, started in 1815. Thus we should try to view historical times as the behind of the present. This gives incite into the anals of the past. > > > > >From the secondary sources we are given hindsight into the future. Hindsight, after all, is caused by a lack of foresight. ... > > > > Civilization woozed out of the Nile about 300,000 years ago. The Nile was a river that had some water in it. Every year it would flood and irritate the land. This tended to make the people nervous. > > > > The pyramids were large square triangles built in the desert. O'Cyrus, a god who lived in a pyramid, would give you the afterlife if your sole was on straight. > > > > Judyism had one big God named "Yahoo". > > > > The Parthenonon was Pericles greatest erection. > > > > Socrates was accused of sophmorism and sentenced to die of hemroyds. > > > > U.Clid proved that there is more than one side to every plain. > > > > Archimedes made the first steamboat and power drill. > > > > During the Dark Ages it was mostly dark. > > > > Monks simply preyed by day and played by night. > > > > Margo Polo visited Kukla Kahn, who rained in China at the time. > > > > Machiavelli, who was often unemployed wrote The Prince to get a job with Richard Nixon. > > > > Italy, of course was much closer to the rest of the world, thanks to northern Europe. > > > > The invention of the sex tent helped to determine place and orientation at sea. > > > > The Vikings, of course had already saled as far as Colorado, where several of their campsights can still be visited today. > > > > The Holy Omen empire soon collapsed... > > > > Philosophy was based on falsies and this led to shaky foundations. > > > > Another problem was that France was full of French people... > > > > Telephones were not available - communication went by mouth to mouth or telegram. The Interstate Highway System was built soon after the Civil War. The Trans-Siberian Railroad connected Europe to California. Urban mass transet included subways and electric tramps. The airplane was invented and first flown by the Marx brothers. Burt Einstein developed the theory of relativism. > > > > East and West made mends with each other. The Berlin Mall was removed... > > > > ==== PA-PITTSBURGH Mailing List ==== > > SUE* MCALISTER-Pittsburgh List Mom > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== PA-PITTSBURGH Mailing List ==== > Check out these COMMUNITY LISTS: MyStErY, Horror, SAHM, M-W-C, Nost-TV, Palm-Gen, and Westie > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >