The following were actual answers to a 6th grade history test:
- Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in
hydraulics. They live in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah
is such that 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 commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.
- Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. The
Greeks were a highly sculputered people, and without them we wouldn't
have history.
- The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
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Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people
advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.
After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
- In the
Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits, and threw the
Java.
- 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: "Tee hee, Brutus".
- Joan of
Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw.
- Queen
Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen". As a queen she was a great success.
When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted,
"hurrah".
- 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.
- 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 on because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies,
and hysterectomies all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an
example of a heroic couple. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by
Juliet.
- Writing at the same time as Sakespeare was Miguel
Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John
Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. The his wife died and he wrote
Paradise Regained.
- 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 backwards and declared, "A
horse divided against itself cannot stand". 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. The believe the assassintor was John
Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career
and the play for everyone.
- Johann Bach wrote a great many musical
compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practice
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 wo was
Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was
very large.
- Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was
so deaf he wrote loud music. 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 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 rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the
Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became on the
Marx Brothers.