Kids Say the Darndest Things

[Guest Crankshaft]

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The following are actual answers given on history tests and in Sunday school quizzes by children between 5th and 6th grade, in Ohio. They were collected over a period of three years by two teachers. Spelling and grammar are in the form that the students wrote.

 

"Ancient Egypt was old. It was inhabited by gypsies and mummies who all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah issuch that all the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

 

Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where

they made unleavened bread, which is bread made

without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount

Cyanide to get the ten commandos. He died before he ever reached Canada but his commandos made it.

 

Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred

porcupines. He was an actual hysterical figure as

well as being in the bible. It sounds like he was

sort of busy too.

 

The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and

without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks

also had myths. A myth is a young female moth.

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.

In the first Olympic games, Greeks ran races,

jumped, hurled biscuits, and threw the java. The

games were messier then than they show on TV now.

 

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 "Same to you, Brutus."

 

Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw for reasons I don't really understand. The English and French still have problems.

 

Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen". As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah!" and that was the end of the fighting for a long while.

 

It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood.

 

Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking.

 

Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper which was very dangerous to all his men.

 

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 Hotel. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Since then no one ever found it.

 

Delegates from the original 13 states formed the

Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered

electricity by rubbing two cats backward and also

declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot

stand." He was a naturalist for sure. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

 

Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's Mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands.. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. 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 fascinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.

 

Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large.

 

Bethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf that he wrote loud music and became the father of rock and roll. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

 

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.

 

Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits but I

don't know why.

 

Charles Darwin was a naturalist. He wrote the Organ of the Species. It was very long and people got upset about it and had trials to see if it was really true. He sort of said God's days were not just 24 hours but without watches who knew anyhow? I don't get it.

 

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.

 

Karl Marx was one of the Marx Brothers. The other

three were in the movies. Karl made speeches and

started revolutions. Someone in the family had to

have a job, I guess."

[Dr. Pomade]

LOL - some of those are great: "Shakespear...was born in 1564, supposedly on his birth day." Another gem: "The English and French still have problems."

 

[ 07. March 2005, 05:45 AM: Message edited by: Dr. Z06 ]

[96MustangCobra]

haha, crazy little kids.

[DeathSandwich]

"same to you, brutus"

[Nitrousbird]

Puppies > children. True story.

[street pilot]

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