Official Great Works Draft (1 Viewer)

[timschochet]

Wildcard 4 Points

Tightrope Walk Between Two Towers

Grave of The Fireflies

I don't watch a lot of anime, because it all looks like Speed Racer. (I have watched anime porn, though- very interesting. It still looks like Speed Racer, except Trixie is a little older and naked.)

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 5 Points

Journey in Satchidananda

The Monroe Doctrine

Have you ever wondered what the connection was between President James Monroe's foreign policies and modern bebop Jazz albums?

Now you know!

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 6 Points

The Rosetta Stone

Looney Tunes

Go ahead and say it: what a maroon I am! What a nimbskull!

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Working on final Song rankings.

Some shifting has occured.

Last chance to make your case.

Will wait to post until the dust settles from the WC rankings.

 

[Abrantes]

Wildcard 3 Points

Cages

Red Rock Amphitheatre

A graphic novel, and you couldn't have picked Maus? (Never forget who your judges are.)

Although it's certainly emotional, Maus is dry and doesn't have one hundredth of the visual creativity found in Cages. It's far closer to an actual novel than a graphic novel, which doesn't make it a very good representative of the genre (but it's probably what makes people applaud it as one of the finest efforts of the medium). On the other hand, McKean's Cages actively stretches the boundaries of the graphic novel format. I know it's just a throwaway quip, but I'll take the opportunity to heap more praise onto Cages on the off chance it leads someone to give it a try.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 7 Points

Augusta National Golf Course

Arlington National Cemetery

The Kabba

I was going to go for more humor here, but anything funny I would try to write about Arlington would be in poor taste, so I'll leave it alone.

 

[Abrantes]

Wildcard 4 Points

Tightrope Walk Between Two Towers

Grave of The Fireflies

I don't watch a lot of anime, because it all looks like Speed Racer. (I have watched anime porn, though- very interesting. It still looks like Speed Racer, except Trixie is a little older and naked.)

I figured it wouldn't get a high ranking due to your criteria, but I do hope you give Grave of The Fireflies a shot. Very curious to see what others have to say about it after they actually see it.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 8 Points

Missionaries of Charity

Cave Drawings at Chauvet Cave

Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds

William Manchester's The Glory and the Dream provides a terrific description of Welles' radio program and it's aftermath. The panic took place, in part, because Welles' show was not popular: the Mercury Theatre was 2nd place to a variety program on NBC. The problem was that then, as now, thousands of listeners tend to turn their dials during commercials. When they did so during the variety program, they came onto The War of The Worlds in the MIDDLE- having missed the beginning in which Welles clearly states, "This is a dramatization." What listeners who turned their dial heard sounded like a real news broadcast.

Regarding Mother Teresa, when I was growing up she was universally considered the living epitome of what a saint should be. But in recent years critics such as Christopher Hitchens have spread some real doubt upon this depiction. So now I don't know what to believe.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 4 Points

Tightrope Walk Between Two Towers

Grave of The Fireflies

I don't watch a lot of anime, because it all looks like Speed Racer. (I have watched anime porn, though- very interesting. It still looks like Speed Racer, except Trixie is a little older and naked.)

I figured it wouldn't get a high ranking due to your criteria, but I do hope you give Grave of The Fireflies a shot. Very curious to see what others have to say about it after they actually see it.

I will try, Abrantes. All kidding aside, I really respect your taste.Even if this film were the greatest animated film in history, it would still be problematic for this list.

 

[Fennis]

Cosby Show- 18 pointsTonight Show With Johnny Carson- 12 points

Fair.

I would hace plugged in Carson @ 17 points, but Cosby only 14. About the same end result tho.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Wildcard 5 Points

Journey in Satchidananda

The Monroe Doctrine

Have you ever wondered what the connection was between President James Monroe's foreign policies and modern bebop Jazz albums?

Now you know!

The Monroe Doctrine was less of a great work of mankind then Looney Toones? [Kyle]

Really?!?

[/Kyle]

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 9 Points

Book of A Thousand Nights And A Night

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

The Messiah Violin

In my preliminary tiers the biggest criticism I received was for ranking the Statue of Zeus in Tier 4. After all, the argument went, we're talking about one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The problem is the statue does not exist, and those original seven wonders are, IMO, based on a rather limited sense of wonder that our ancestors had. If they could envision todays world, would this statue really be one of the seven wonders? Highly doubtful.

However, I have surrendered to the argument somewhat, and moved it up. This is as high as I can rank it, however.

I love the rich sound of Stradivarius- I have heard one live- a performance by Itzak Perlman, which ranks among the greatest concerts I have witnessed.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 5 Points

Journey in Satchidananda

The Monroe Doctrine

Have you ever wondered what the connection was between President James Monroe's foreign policies and modern bebop Jazz albums?

Now you know!

The Monroe Doctrine was less of a great work of mankind then Looney Toones? [Kyle]

Really?!?

[/Kyle]

Well, let's think about this for a second. One of these acheivements led to millions of people around the world being delighted and entertained to this day.The other, led, at least in part, to a large number of military dictatorships and human suffering which was deemed OK so long as it served the best interests of the United States.

Not that hard a decision for me, sorry.

 

[timschochet]

10 Points

Bayeux Tapestry

SR-71

Woodstock

I'm thinking, how do I explain this? How do I justify giving these three picks 10 points, as opposed to 4 points or 18 points?

I'm not even going to bother trying. I'm simply going to state that, as an OBJECTIVE FACT- the achievement of the Woodstock concert is exactly equal to the achievement of the SR-71 which is also exactly equal to the Bayeaux Tapestry, and they are ALL about middle of the road in terms of the greatest human acheivements of all time.

Just try disputing it. I don't think you can.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 11 Points

Manned Descent to the Bottom of Trench

Colossus Computer

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

And furthermore, these three are more important than the last three-by exactly one point.

Deal with it.

 

[timschochet]

12 Points

Walt Disney World

The Decameron

Rescue of Apollo 13

I had to read the Decameron as a senior in high school. I'm not sure why. I haven't thought about it since until now.

 

[krista4]

Wildcard 11 Points

Manned Descent to the Bottom of Trench

Colossus Computer

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

And furthermore, these three are more important than the last three-by exactly one point.

Deal with it.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 13 Points

Madame Butterfly

The North Atlantic Treaty

The Louvre

The new challenge will be to try to make a sentence using all three picks. Can you do it? (It's got to make reasonable sense).

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 14 Points

The New York Stock Exchange

The Nutcracker

Breaking the Color Barrier in MLB

For example,

I was listening to The Nutcracker at the New York Stock Exchange, and I was thinking about Jackie Robinson breaking the...

That's totally lame. Can anyone do better?

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 15 Points

Nanotechnology

Mars Rover Mission

The Upanishads

This one's even more of a challenge. If you can make a good sentence out of this one, you are far more brilliant than I.

 

[Postradamus]

10 Points

Bayeux Tapestry

SR-71

Woodstock

I'm thinking, how do I explain this? How do I justify giving these three picks 10 points, as opposed to 4 points or 18 points?

I'm not even going to bother trying. I'm simply going to state that, as an OBJECTIVE FACT- the achievement of the Woodstock concert is exactly equal to the achievement of the SR-71 which is also exactly equal to the Bayeaux Tapestry, and they are ALL about middle of the road in terms of the greatest human acheivements of all time.

Just try disputing it. I don't think you can.

Woodstock accomplished nothing and belongs at the bottom of the list. Smelly hippies dancing around at a concert, it happens a hundred times every summer.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 16 Points

Large Hadron Collider

The Canals of Venice

Hubble Space Telescope

I originally had the Hadron Collider much lower, until I read about it. Or at least tried to read about it. Here's a description:

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams, of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV per nucleus. The Large Hadron Collider was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson[1] and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry.[2] It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (570 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.[3]

This is WAYYY beyond my ken. All I know is this thing must be pretty awesome and I had to stick it in the first tier. For all I know, it might still be too low.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Wildcard 13 Points

Madame Butterfly

The North Atlantic Treaty

The Louvre

The new challenge will be to try to make a sentence using all three picks. Can you do it? (It's got to make reasonable sense).

Madame Butterfly, your continued complaints about the air conditioning at The Louvre has generated such a stir in the French government that assistance has been officially requested through the North Atlantic Treaty. When the bombs start falling, the holes in the ceiling should cool you off nicely.

 

[timschochet]

Requesting permission to post my initial Compositions rankings tomorrow evening.

You don't need permission anymore. Do it anytime you like.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Wildcard 14 Points

The New York Stock Exchange

The Nutcracker

Breaking the Color Barrier in MLB

For example,

I was listening to The Nutcracker at the New York Stock Exchange, and I was thinking about Jackie Robinson breaking the...

That's totally lame. Can anyone do better?

Yesterday at the New York Stock Exchange I was loading up on orange futures only to see the price plummet, making me feel like my head was stuck in The Nutcracker, but at least I got to see Jackie break the color barrier in Major League Baseball. So I have that going for me. Which is nice.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 13 Points

Madame Butterfly

The North Atlantic Treaty

The Louvre

The new challenge will be to try to make a sentence using all three picks. Can you do it? (It's got to make reasonable sense).

Madame Butterfly, your continued complaints about the air conditioning at The Louvre has generated such a stir in the French government that assistance has been officially requested through the North Atlantic Treaty. When the bombs start falling, the holes in the ceiling should cool you off nicely.

You win an "I participated!" trophy. Be proud.

 

[rodg12]

Wildcard 15 Points

Nanotechnology

Mars Rover Mission

The Upanishads

This one's even more of a challenge. If you can make a good sentence out of this one, you are far more brilliant than I.

The completion of the Mars Rover Mission yielded huge breakthroughs in nanotechnology ultimately resulting in a time travel device which allowed researchers to travel back in time to witness the writing of The Upanishads.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Wildcard 15 Points

Nanotechnology

Mars Rover Mission

The Upanishads

This one's even more of a challenge. If you can make a good sentence out of this one, you are far more brilliant than I.

The Upanishads, Joseph and Helen, have donated $5 million to the Really Small Things Lab in Florida for research into using nanotechnology on the next Mars rover mission because it has been proven that martians are most likely midgets.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 17 Points

Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

Climb of Mount Everest

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Getting into elite territory here...

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Wildcard 16 Points

Large Hadron Collider

The Canals of Venice

Hubble Space Telescope

I originally had the Hadron Collider much lower, until I read about it. Or at least tried to read about it. Here's a description:

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams, of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV per nucleus. The Large Hadron Collider was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson[1] and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry.[2] It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (570 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.[3]

This is WAYYY beyond my ken. All I know is this thing must be pretty awesome and I had to stick it in the first tier. For all I know, it might still be too low.

Continued usage of the Large Hadron Collider is going to lead to a fault line opening through the center of Europe making the Canals of Venice look like an above ground swimming pool and will most likely create so much damage and destruction that the Hubble Space Telescope will be needed to see the ground in Italy within a decade.

 

[Doug B]

Wildcard 15 Points

Nanotechnology

Mars Rover Mission

The Upanishads

This one's even more of a challenge. If you can make a good sentence out of this one, you are far more brilliant than I.

The next Mars Rover Mission will employ robots which, using classified nanotechnology, will etch the full text of The Upanishads onto the planet's surface.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 15 Points

Nanotechnology

Mars Rover Mission

The Upanishads

This one's even more of a challenge. If you can make a good sentence out of this one, you are far more brilliant than I.

The Upanishads, Joseph and Helen, have donated $5 million to the Really Small Things Lab in Florida for research into using nanotechnology on the next Mars rover mission because it has been proven that martians are most likely midgets.

Rodg is better. But you tried.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Wildcard 17 Points

Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

Climb of Mount Everest

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Getting into elite territory here...

So, I thought of climbing Mount Everst and pictured the news traveling back home through the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable and the story creating such a furvor at home that a new spirit of adventure takes hold of my community not seen since the Northwest Ordiance of 1787.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Wildcard 15 Points

Nanotechnology

Mars Rover Mission

The Upanishads

This one's even more of a challenge. If you can make a good sentence out of this one, you are far more brilliant than I.

The Upanishads, Joseph and Helen, have donated $5 million to the Really Small Things Lab in Florida for research into using nanotechnology on the next Mars rover mission because it has been proven that martians are most likely midgets.

Rodg is better. But you tried.

The completion of the Mars Rover Mission yielded huge breakthroughs in nanotechnology ultimately resulting in a time travel device which allowed researchers to travel back in time to witness the birth of every family member of The Upanishads, who had previously donated $5 million to the Really Small Things Lab in Florida for research into using nanotechnology on the Mars rover mission due to some crackppot theory of martians being midgets.

 

[krista4]

Wildcard 15 Points

Nanotechnology

Mars Rover Mission

The Upanishads

This one's even more of a challenge. If you can make a good sentence out of this one, you are far more brilliant than I.

The Upanishads, Joseph and Helen, have donated $5 million to the Really Small Things Lab in Florida for research into using nanotechnology on the next Mars rover mission because it has been proven that martians are most likely midgets.

Rodg is better. But you tried.

I don't know--I was at "the Upanishads, Joseph and Helen". still.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 18 Points

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Greek Victory at Marathon

Lousiana Purchase

On a serious note:

I admit I struggled with the Montgomery Bus Boycott here. Some people will think I overrate it. How important is it in world history?

I thought about this a lot, and I think the answer is, very important. It is the pivotal event of the Civil Rights movement, and the Civil Rights movement forced the United States to live up to its ideals. We are, IMO, the greatest nation that has ever existed in world history, mostly because of our ideals. But our Constitution and Bill of Rights would just be scraps of paper if we did not live up to them. The moment that Rosa Parks won her battle was the moment when we as a nation effectively told the world: we mean what we say.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

12 Points

Walt Disney World

The Decameron

Rescue of Apollo 13

I had to read the Decameron as a senior in high school. I'm not sure why. I haven't thought about it since until now.

After the Rescue of the Apollo 13 astronauts, they were asked what the first thing they were going to do back on Earth was, and they each said, "We're going to Walt Disney World!" When they were informed that Disney World was not built yet, they looked like high school students being assigned The Decameron for their next reading assignment.

 

[rodg12]

Wildcard 16 Points

Large Hadron Collider

The Canals of Venice

Hubble Space Telescope

I originally had the Hadron Collider much lower, until I read about it. Or at least tried to read about it. Here's a description:

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams, of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV per nucleus. The Large Hadron Collider was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson[1] and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry.[2] It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (570 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.[3]

This is WAYYY beyond my ken. All I know is this thing must be pretty awesome and I had to stick it in the first tier. For all I know, it might still be too low.

At some point in the future (some believe that exact date to be 12/21/2012) experimentation at the Large Hadron Collider will result in the creation of a black hole which envelopes and destroys Earth and all its creations (including The Canals of Venice and either the specific things drafted in this draft and/or the records about them), even things orbiting the Earth such as the Hubble Space Telescope.

 

[rodg12]

12 Points

Walt Disney World

The Decameron

Rescue of Apollo 13

I had to read the Decameron as a senior in high school. I'm not sure why. I haven't thought about it since until now.

After the Rescue of the Apollo 13 astronauts, they were asked what the first thing they were going to do back on Earth was, and they each said, "We're going to Walt Disney World!" When they were informed that Disney World was not built yet, they looked like high school students being assigned The Decameron for their next reading assignment.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 19 points

Yuri Gargarin's Manned Space Flight

The Marshall Plan

The Normandy Landings

All of these deserve to be here.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Wildcard 18 Points

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Greek Victory at Marathon

Lousiana Purchase

On a serious note:

I admit I struggled with the Montgomery Bus Boycott here. Some people will think I overrate it. How important is it in world history?

I thought about this a lot, and I think the answer is, very important. It is the pivotal event of the Civil Rights movement, and the Civil Rights movement forced the United States to live up to its ideals. We are, IMO, the greatest nation that has ever existed in world history, mostly because of our ideals. But our Constitution and Bill of Rights would just be scraps of paper if we did not live up to them. The moment that Rosa Parks won her battle was the moment when we as a nation effectively told the world: we mean what we say.

Contrary to most opinion, the Motgomery Bus Boycott simply made people walk to work, which isn't exactly the same as the Greek Victory in Marathon, so let's calm down people. Next thing you know, the local Knoghts of Columbus are going to start complaining that the people aren't using the bus so that they can save up enough money to make the Louisiana Purchase look like a co-op rental agreement.

 

[rodg12]

Wildcard 18 Points

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Greek Victory at Marathon

Lousiana Purchase

On a serious note:

I admit I struggled with the Montgomery Bus Boycott here. Some people will think I overrate it. How important is it in world history?

I thought about this a lot, and I think the answer is, very important. It is the pivotal event of the Civil Rights movement, and the Civil Rights movement forced the United States to live up to its ideals. We are, IMO, the greatest nation that has ever existed in world history, mostly because of our ideals. But our Constitution and Bill of Rights would just be scraps of paper if we did not live up to them. The moment that Rosa Parks won her battle was the moment when we as a nation effectively told the world: we mean what we say.

Contrary to most opinion, the Motgomery Bus Boycott simply made people walk to work, which isn't exactly the same as the Greek Victory in Marathon, so let's calm down people. Next thing you know, the local Knoghts of Columbus are going to start complaining that the people aren't using the bus so that they can save up enough money to make the Louisiana Purchase look like a co-op rental agreement.

That's 2 sentences......

 

[timschochet]

12 Points

Walt Disney World

The Decameron

Rescue of Apollo 13

I had to read the Decameron as a senior in high school. I'm not sure why. I haven't thought about it since until now.

After the Rescue of the Apollo 13 astronauts, they were asked what the first thing they were going to do back on Earth was, and they each said, "We're going to Walt Disney World!" When they were informed that Disney World was not built yet, they looked like high school students being assigned The Decameron for their next reading assignment.

But it's two sentences.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Wildcard 19 points

Yuri Gargarin's Manned Space Flight

The Marshall Plan

The Normandy Landings

All of these deserve to be here.

During Yuri Gargarin's manned space flight, he radioed base command to get the landing coordinates back on Earth. Alxei Marshall, Director of Russina Military Space Maps, Red Cross Unit, had issued a stabbing report, dubbed, 'The Marshall Plan', which said the only possible safe landing spot was a beach in France. It was assumed that a Russian man in a metal cylinder falling from the sky would make the French surrender to the Soviets immeidately, and the the school kids in Vladivostock now learn about Yuri and his magic Normady Landings while eating Russian beets and French bread.

 

[rodg12]

Wildcard 19 points

Yuri Gargarin's Manned Space Flight

The Marshall Plan

The Normandy Landings

All of these deserve to be here.

While the US was busy enacting The Marshall Plan following their WWII victory (based on such key military strategies such as the Normandy Landings), the Commie Russians got a head start in the Space Race and were able to complete Yuri Gargarin's Manned Space Flight making him the first man in outer space.

 

[timschochet]

Wildcard 20 points

Lindbergh’s Flight

Magellan's Circumnavigation of the Earth

Apollo 11

I'm just glad it's over. This has been fun, but honestly there's very little rhyme or reason to these rankings, especially anywhere from 5 to 15 points. If you feel like you got screwed over, you're probably right, and I apologize. Just no good way to compare this stuff.

 

[rodg12]

12 Points

Walt Disney World

The Decameron

Rescue of Apollo 13

I had to read the Decameron as a senior in high school. I'm not sure why. I haven't thought about it since until now.

After the Rescue of the Apollo 13 astronauts, they were asked what the first thing they were going to do back on Earth was, and they each said, "We're going to Walt Disney World!" When they were informed that Disney World was not built yet, they looked like high school students being assigned The Decameron for their next reading assignment.

But it's two sentences.

Stupid exclamation point threw me off.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Wildcard 18 Points

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Greek Victory at Marathon

Lousiana Purchase

On a serious note:

I admit I struggled with the Montgomery Bus Boycott here. Some people will think I overrate it. How important is it in world history?

I thought about this a lot, and I think the answer is, very important. It is the pivotal event of the Civil Rights movement, and the Civil Rights movement forced the United States to live up to its ideals. We are, IMO, the greatest nation that has ever existed in world history, mostly because of our ideals. But our Constitution and Bill of Rights would just be scraps of paper if we did not live up to them. The moment that Rosa Parks won her battle was the moment when we as a nation effectively told the world: we mean what we say.

Contrary to most opinion, the Motgomery Bus Boycott simply made people walk to work, which isn't exactly the same as the Greek Victory in Marathon, so let's calm down people. Next thing you know, the local Knoghts of Columbus are going to start complaining that the people aren't using the bus so that they can save up enough money to make the Louisiana Purchase look like a co-op rental agreement.

That's 2 sentences......

A stickler for the irules in an internet message board draft of the most important things in human history, a certain drafter and assistant to the commissioner tried to employ a seldom enforce rule on the books, treating his military like precision like he was a General during the Greek Victory at Marathon, but all he did was look like the one guy who didn't join in the Montgomery Bus Boycott sitting in the back of the bus all by himself reading a book about how Thomas Jefferson was actually a martian and the Kouisiana Purchase was concluded so that they had a place for crop circles to screw with humans.

 

[rodg12]

Wildcard 18 Points

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Greek Victory at Marathon

Lousiana Purchase

On a serious note:

I admit I struggled with the Montgomery Bus Boycott here. Some people will think I overrate it. How important is it in world history?

I thought about this a lot, and I think the answer is, very important. It is the pivotal event of the Civil Rights movement, and the Civil Rights movement forced the United States to live up to its ideals. We are, IMO, the greatest nation that has ever existed in world history, mostly because of our ideals. But our Constitution and Bill of Rights would just be scraps of paper if we did not live up to them. The moment that Rosa Parks won her battle was the moment when we as a nation effectively told the world: we mean what we say.

Contrary to most opinion, the Motgomery Bus Boycott simply made people walk to work, which isn't exactly the same as the Greek Victory in Marathon, so let's calm down people. Next thing you know, the local Knoghts of Columbus are going to start complaining that the people aren't using the bus so that they can save up enough money to make the Louisiana Purchase look like a co-op rental agreement.

That's 2 sentences......

A stickler for the irules in an internet message board draft of the most important things in human history, a certain drafter and assistant to the commissioner tried to employ a seldom enforce rule on the books, treating his military like precision like he was a General during the Greek Victory at Marathon, but all he did was look like the one guy who didn't join in the Montgomery Bus Boycott sitting in the back of the bus all by himself reading a book about how Thomas Jefferson was actually a martian and the Kouisiana Purchase was concluded so that they had a place for crop circles to screw with humans.

What just happened, I blacked out there.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

12 Points

Walt Disney World

The Decameron

Rescue of Apollo 13

I had to read the Decameron as a senior in high school. I'm not sure why. I haven't thought about it since until now.

After the Rescue of the Apollo 13 astronauts, they were asked what the first thing they were going to do back on Earth was, and they each said, "We're going to Walt Disney World!" When they were informed that Disney World was not built yet, they looked like high school students being assigned The Decameron for their next reading assignment.

But it's two sentences.

Breaking news out of California as a young jewish man with a t-shirt that read, "Peter O'Toole is a God - but not in the theistic way because I'm an Athiest Jew," was trampled to death trying to buy tickets a travel agency sale on Walt Disney World vacation packages, by a crowd as large as had gathered to watch the rescue of the Apollo 13 astronauts though not quite as big as the group of people who have stuck a pencil in their eye when being assigned to read the Decameron in school.