STUDENT BLOOPERS
Some mistakes found in actual student reports...
Education at its finest!!!
The government of Athens was democratic because people took the law
into their own hands.
King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery
The Indian squabs carried porpoises on their back.
Benjamin Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead
The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies.
The government of England was a limited mockery.
The Gorgons had long snakes in their hair. They looked like women,
only more horrible
King Alfred conquered the Dames
The difference between a king and a president is that a king is the
son of his father and a president isn't.
Lincoln's mother died in infancy.
The blood circulates through the body by flowing down one leg and up
the other
Then the Spanish Gorillas came down from the hills and nipped at
Napoleon's flanks.
Another tale tells of William Tell, who shot an arrow through an
apple while standing on his son's head
Bach died from 1750 to the present
Handel ws half German, half English, and half Italian. He was very
large
Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis.
The Ides of March murdered Caesar because they thought he was going
to be made king.
The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular
cube
The walls of medeival cathedrals were supported by fling buttocks.
Water is composed of two gins. Oxygin and hydrogin. Oxygin is pure
gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.
We do not raise silk worms in the United States, because we get our
silk from rayon. He is a larger worm and gives more silk.
When they fought with the Persians, the Greeks were outnumbered
because the Persians had more men.
Joan of Arc was cannonized by Bernard Shaw
Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul.
Greeks invented three kinds of columns: Corinthian, Doric, and
Ironic
He wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a
baroness, she couldn't bear children
George Washington married Martha Curtis and in due time became the
Father of Our Country.
In midevil times most of the people were alliterate
In one of Shakespear's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his
situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy.
Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing
about the Atlantic
Finally, the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for
taxis.
The climate of the Saraha is such that the inhabitants have to live
elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation.
Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species.
Oliver Cromwell had a large red nose, but under it were deeply
religious feelings.
In the ninteenth century, pheasants led terrible lives.
Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare
arms.
Actually, the Iliad was not written by Homer, but by another man of
that name.
Homer also wrote the Oddity, in which Penelope was the last hardship
that Ulysses endured on his journey.
Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.