Book suggestion for Pedantic Man

[Leslie]

Non Campus Mentis (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0761129790/sr=8-1/qid=1173719528/ref=dp_proddesc_0/002-4983231-8200006?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&qid=1173719528&sr=8-1) - a horrifically hilarious compendium of actual North American college student essays.

From the Back Cover
Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from Term Papers & Blue Book Exams

Did You Know:

Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus!"
Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the "Big Three"
Rasputin was a pheasant by birth
Judyism had one big God named Yahoo
Westward expansion ended at Custard's Last Stand
Marie Curie won the Noel Prize for inventing the radiator
The Civil Rights movement turned the corner with Martin Luther Junior's famous "If I Had a Hammer" speechI was laughing so hard I almost peed my pants!! A+++++!!!11!

[chcr]

Rasputin was a pheasant by birth

And his plumage was just lovely.

[Leslie]

There is so much comedy gold in here.

Frederick the Great, who is credited personally with increasing the population of Prussia by almost a third during his lifetime.

Cortez was leader of a little group of torriadors who subdued the inhabitants of New Mexico with great ease. Small box, which they brought with them, was killing the natives at a very quick rate. This bothered the Spanish little, for as Catholics they did not believe in God.

Canada became an anarchy in 1867.

[Luis G]

:lol:

[chcr]

Canada became an anarchy in 1867.

That one has a nodding acquaintance with reality, at least. :lol:

[Luis G]

and Hitler, who "shot himself in the bonker."

:rofl4:

[Gonz]

"the assignation of Archduke Ferdman gave sweet relief to mounting tensions,"

Strangely, there would be truth in that foolishness. I don't belive the writer meant 30 years later.