15 Facts About The Internet, Scrabble, And The Gay Army Of Thebes
A young lady had been married for about ten years, when one day she heard an awful cry. It came from her husband's study, where he was working hard at a great piece of work that he was doing with a penknife, which she thought made the loudest screeching noise that anyone ever heard before. She rushed into the room and found him sitting on his table, quite white, with the knife in his hand; while behind the desk, on the floor, lay the family parrot, who had died in consequence of the noise. She was terribly distressed to see her husband in such a condition — and, at the same time, she couldn't help feeling sorry for the poor parrot.
She inched closer to see what her husband had carved with such force that the sound produced was so hellish. She couldn't make it out at first, but then she saw it was a list, then noticed each item was numbered, and started reading the list, which went:
Thomas Jefferson
You’ve been Ree-ing for a lie.
President Garfield’s great-great-grandson created Magic The Gathering.
A unit of 50 gay couples were a fierce battalion in Ancient Thebes.
Jimmy Carter’s campaign was saved by The Allman Brothers.
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Jon Favreau
The old presidential yacht was sold for $0.
A company formed ,400 years ago finally went under in 2006.
Sound enhancing disks were used between world wars to listen for planes.
You can apparently use your own ransom on your taxes.
Ray Bradbury had to pay by the minute to write "Fahrenheit 45."
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
Butts studied the Times to create Scrabble.
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