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Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, or alternatively, to make all sorts of nonsensical comments about it which are guaranteed to provide the rest of the world with endless amusement. If you come across any such comments, let the world know by posting them in this category.

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"Who did England fight in the English Civil War?"
    Posted by JT on 11 Jan 2010. + (9) - (0) Permalink
Poles and Pakistanis, obviously :)
    Posted by Moosh on 11 Jan 2010.

Answer given in History exam: "Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand.". Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead."
    Posted by JT on 14 Dec 2009. + (6) - (0) Permalink
Damn students on crack. Also, JT, where do you get the "answer given in exam" stuff? You're a teacher or something?
    Posted by Moosh on 16 Dec 2009.
Not a chance - I'd rather spend as little time around children as possible, horrid little beasts that they are. Found it all on some teachers website.
    Posted by JT on 17 Dec 2009.

"Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock."
    Posted by JT on 14 Dec 2009. + (3) - (0) Permalink
I wish I could vote twice.
    Posted by Necropaxx on 18 Dec 2009.

News: "Diana was still alive just hours before she died."
    Posted by JT on 3 Jan 2010. + (7) - (0) Permalink

Answer in History exam: "The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth."
    Posted by JT on 14 Dec 2009. + (3) - (0) Permalink

"What year was the stone age?"
    Posted by JT on 20 Sep 2009. + (4) - (0) Permalink
It wasn't a year, it was a decade! You idiot!
    Posted by Socky on 20 Jan 2010.

"Knights were the worrier class of medieval Europe"
    Posted by RvA on 23 Dec 2009. + (4) - (0) Permalink

"One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea."
    Posted by JT on 14 Dec 2009. + (3) - (0) Permalink
Wouldn't you revolt?
    Posted by Necropaxx on 18 Dec 2009.
Sounds pretty revolting to me.

(Well, someone had to make that pun.)
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 18 Dec 2009.

"Who wrote Tolstoy's War and Peace?"
    Posted by Ghost on 3 Jan 2010. + (4) - (0) Permalink
Was it Dostoevsky?
    Posted by Socky on 3 Jan 2010.
Nah I'm pretty sure it was Austen. Great war writer, was Austen.
    Posted by Ghost on 3 Jan 2010.

"Churchill wasn't really very pro-German, was he?"
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 13 Aug 2014. + (0) - (0) Permalink