Back in the days when emails still delighted and we eagerly opened them as soon as they hit the inbox, I used to regularly receive emails with the subject line crowded with FW: FW: FW: FW: FW:
I opened them. I read them . I added my FW: and sent them on to my nearest and dearest. They often came back to my inbox. I read them again and depending on my memory that day, I may have sent them out again.
It's been a long time since I've received any of these emails...until yesterday.
It's Friday. It's been a very long week. We deserve a blast from the past.
The originator of the email included this explanation.
> The following excerpts are actual answers given on history tests and > in Sunday school quizzes by children between 5th and 6th grade ages in Ohio. > They were collected over a period of three years by two teachers. Kids > should rule the world, as it would be a laugh a minute for us adults and > therefore no time to war or argue. I have no idea whether kids really wrote these. But they still made me smile. The entire list is too long so I've chosen a few along with some editorial content that have a business tone to them. On bad career moves Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving people > advice. They killed him. He later died from an overdose of wedlock Which > is apparently poisonous. After his death, his career > suffered a Dramatic decline. ********************************************************** On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got Shot > in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe > the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This > ruined Booth's career. On Product Development It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented > removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the > circulation of blood. ************************************************************* The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. > People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The > invention of the steamboat caused a > network of rivers to spring up. > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a > hundred men. On Women paving the way for other women Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented Cigarettes > and started smoking. On Technologically > Madman Curie discovered radio. She was the first woman to do what she did. > Other women have become scientists since her but they didn't get to find > radios because they were already taken. And just becauseI like these The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was > born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much > money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, > comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He Wrote > Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise > Lost. Since then no one ever found it.
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