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"I told you, this cough medicine is good stuff." -a prof. from my college, on being told he'd just written the same thing twice, quoted on the unofficial website
"Meanwhile, way the hell far away in some place like Finland, Vikings were forming. these were extremely rugged individuals whose idea of a fun time was to sail over and set fire to England, which in those days was fairly easy to ignite because it had a very high level of thatch, this being the kind of roof favored by the local tribespeople. ...This went on for thousands of years, during which time the English tribespeople became very oppressed, not to mention damp.
"...Arthur was able to unite them and drive off the Vikings via the bold and resourceful maneuver of serving them relentlessly bland food, a tradition that remains in England to this day despite numerous armed attempts by the French to invade with sauces.
"Thus it was that the Vikings set off across the Atlantic in approximately the year 867--on October 8--to (a) try to locate North America and (b) see if it was flammable."
--Dave Barry, Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States, on the discovery of America
"Meanwhile, way the hell far away in some place like Finland, Vikings were forming. these were extremely rugged individuals whose idea of a fun time was to sail over and set fire to England, which in those days was fairly easy to ignite because it had a very high level of thatch, this being the kind of roof favored by the local tribespeople. ...This went on for thousands of years, during which time the English tribespeople became very oppressed, not to mention damp.
"...Arthur was able to unite them and drive off the Vikings via the bold and resourceful maneuver of serving them relentlessly bland food, a tradition that remains in England to this day despite numerous armed attempts by the French to invade with sauces.
"Thus it was that the Vikings set off across the Atlantic in approximately the year 867--on October 8--to (a) try to locate North America and (b) see if it was flammable."
--Dave Barry, Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States, on the discovery of America