[GCFL-discuss] [GCFL.net] Columbus

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

LOL too funny Jeanene!
~ Lance
On Dec 21, 2014 11:04 PM, "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List" <
gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:

> 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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