[GCFL-discuss] [GCFL.net] Columbus

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OMG, Siarlys!  As my Indian neighbor once said, You are a "veddy, veddy 
bad man"!
Red is the color of my hair!  White (fair) skin, blue eyes, red hair -- 
I am as patriotic as anything ever made in the US of A.
Red (-haired Jeanene)

On 12/20/2014 7:04 PM, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List wrote:
> If you're really Red, then we should be comrades.
> Siarlys
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 12:20:53 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean 
> Funnies List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net <mailto:gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net>> 
> writes:
>
>     You're always throwing some reality toward us, aren't you? Well,
>     barely any of it hits me, and what does often fails to stick. Keep
>     trying, though.
>     Red
>
>     /Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID/
>
>
>     "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List"
>     <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:
>
>     I hate to be a kill-joy (no, that's a lie, I love it), but
>     Columbus was
>     not particularly original in realizing that the world is round. A
>     Greek
>     living in Egypt circa 500 BC had figured out its circumference,
>     Aristotle, although he thought the world was at the center of the
>     universe, understood it was round, and most Christian scholars
>     understood
>     the world was round. Columbus thought it was a much shorter
>     distance from
>     Europe to Asia than it actually is, and he was wrong. He never did
>     realize he had discovered a whole new continent.
>
>     Now the notion that the earth revolves around the sun, that raised
>     some
>     hackles for a few centuries. But that had nothing to do with Columbus.
>
>     The origin of the "everyone thought the earth was flat except
>     Columbus"
>     myth may be traceable to Washington Irving, who made up some stories
>     about Columbus as a patriotic gesture. Columbus had been
>     half-forgotten
>     until the infant United States of America began writing its own
>     legend,
>     and some literati like Irvine dredged Columbup up as an original
>     American
>     hero.
>
>     Not that Columbus was sailing to find a land where liberty could
>     flourish
>     or anything like that... he was a devoted servant of Their Most
>     Catholic
>     Majesties, the King and Queen of Spain.
>
>     Siarlys
>     (who else?)
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