[GCFL-discuss] [GCFL.net] Columbus

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Who impugned your patriotism Jeanene? greenBubble was just asking if you
were still around, I guess you went underground and took on a new alias.

Socialism is as American as apple pie. Visit the Eugene Debs home in
Terre Haute if you leave Arizona anytime soon. I'll be praying for you.

Siarlys

On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:04:30 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> writes:
> 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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