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You know, I've often wondered about Abraham Lincoln.

I'm not sure what kind of team he was on or what they were playing, but only four score in seven years? That can't be good.

Maybe it has something to do with nepotism or incest or something. I mean, the whole team apparantly only had four fathers.

And then there's that whole thing with his seperate residence. I can understand not wanting to mix team stuff with presidential duties, but there are better ways to keep things straight than keeping an extra household at your "Gettysburg address." Especially when, as far as most people know, you've never lived in Virginia. Something screwy going on there.

And yet, despite all that, he still managed to be one of the greatest presidents in our history. Hmm. Maybe that's something all those "family values" voters out there could learn from.

See? It pays to know your history.

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I just wandered on in looking for posts about Abraham Lincoln, and while your post is really funny, I'm just wondering if the Gettysburg Address really does confuse you. What seems to underlie the Gettysburg Address, ironically enough, is another way of viewing history than the one we've been taught - we look at history as a bunch of facts which can be verified via a more scientific methodology (i.e. carbon dating, books of records, eyewitness accounts). Lincoln viewed American history as the tension between liberty and equality, and what the heck, I'll just point you to my post here (http://inrethinking.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-democracy-feasible-reflections-on.html).

Sorry to spam you like this; you seem really well-read, and I thought I might as well say hi and that I did appreciate the post and yeah, drop a link too.

Welcome, then. And thanks.

(And wow. That was fast. I just posted this.)

Glad you like.

And yeah, I may not be the best student of history around, but I do know a little more about things than this post might indicate. ;)

*G*

*snicker* Though Gettysburg is in Pennsylvania... *whistle*

Oh, right. I... uhm... meant to do that. I thought it went well with the tone of the... Oh, heck. That's what I get for writing at random hours. And forgetting to double-check stuff. I'll just leave that up there as a testament to my idiocy. Thanks, tho...

now that i can finally post comments again...and actually get to my f-page...

ROFL. as always, that is great.

Welcome back, then, and thanks. :)

Heh. Such cleverness from the brain that is Paul's. *g*

You should submit this (after you fix the PA thing ;)) to Reader's Digest or the like. I bet you'd get some money for it, LOL!

Reader's Digest? And I could actually get (funny) money for stuff like this? Do tell. The bulk of my experience with Reader's Digest has to do with watching babies teethe on foam-paged books.

(And thanks for the FDK! :) )

You absolutely could get money for stuff like this! Pick up a Reader's Digest in the library (or on the news-stand, but then you'd have to pay for it ;)) and read through it. They have all these little blurbs at the end of the pages, funny little things like this, plus a few themed humor columns. For example, they'll have one page dedicated to military humor, another to job-related humor, family humor, etc. Other blurbs might be things people found in the newspapers (funny typos or ridiculous headlines, that sort of thing.)

It's been awhile since I've looked, but I think they used to pay like $50 if they used someone's submission. I have no idea how many submissions they get, but it's worth looking into, right? :)

Huh. Cool. I'll have to check that out.

... Okay, I checked it out.

According to this page:

Everyone's got a funny story. What's yours? Believe it or not, we actually pay our readers to make us chuckle. Just send us your hilarious story, and if we publish it in Reader's Digest, you'll be laughing all the way to the bank. Here's how it works:
We pay $100-$300 for material we print in Life in These United States, All in a Day's Work, Humor in Uniform; and $100 for material we print in Laughter, the Best Medicine; Quotable Quotes or elsewhere.

Looks like the pay went up. Nifty!

Well, for what it's worth:

Thank you, Paul!

Your submission makes 20,697,439 jokes, quotes and funny true stories received to date.

So far we've paid $25,306,000 to RD readers! If we decide to publish your submission, we'll send you a check!

At a minimum of $50 per accepted submission, that leaves (at most) a 2% acceptance rate. Wish me luck...

LOL! Well, good luck. I think a great deal of your stuff is print worthy, so let's hope they agree. :D

Aww, thanks. :)

(Nice icon, BTW!)

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