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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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"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.

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

"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 commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada."
    Posted by JT on 14 Dec 2009. + (4) - (0) Permalink
Of all the places to want to go to... Canada? Really?
    Posted by Necropaxx on 18 Dec 2009.
Could it be Canada is the Promised Land? Been a lot of conflict in the Middle East over nothing if so.
    Posted by LucyT on 22 Dec 2009.

"Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics.They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere."
    Posted by JT on 14 Dec 2009. + (1) - (1) Permalink
Looks like this old chestnut:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showt...

This is one of the few Internet chain letters that I saw before I even had access to the Internet!
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 14 Dec 2009.
Yep - got all today's submissions from a site full of "genuine exam answers" which included everything at the end of that link!
    Posted by JT on 14 Dec 2009.

"Are there windows in the Pyramids?"
    Posted by LucyT on 3 Nov 2009. + (1) - (0) Permalink
Well, the glass has since long deteriorated or was stolen by tomb robbers, but the holes where the windows used to be are still there.
    Posted by Socky on 3 Nov 2009.
No, but I found a Mac in Tut's tomb.
    Posted by Tiger on 4 Nov 2009.

"Did you guys know Abraham Lincoln is dead?"
    Posted by JT on 19 Oct 2009. + (1) - (0) Permalink
Did you guys know John Wilkes Booth escaped, and is still alive on the secret moon base with Hitler and Elvis?
    Posted by Wrongfellow on 19 Oct 2009.

"What clothes did Homo sapiens wear?"
    Posted by JT on 25 Sep 2009. + (0) - (0) Permalink
Fish scales.
    Posted by Socky on 25 Sep 2009.

American tourist at Stonehenge: "Why did they put the rocks so close to the freeway?"
    Posted by JT on 20 Sep 2009. + (7) - (0) Permalink
So people wouldn't have to walk all the way from the parking lot. What are you? Stupid?
    Posted by Socky on 21 Sep 2009.

"Who were the Greeks?"
    Posted by JT on 20 Sep 2009. + (0) - (0) Permalink
Democrats. What, you think a Republican could have been called a Greek?
    Posted by Tiger on 4 Nov 2009.

"What century is 1000-1 B.C?"
    (From http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_centur...)
    Posted by JT on 20 Sep 2009. + (0) - (0) Permalink