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oblongmelon
10-13-2003, 04:34 AM
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Columbus Day
Across the world,
Columbus,
you dreamt your wild schemes.

You slept on decks
of sailing ships;
you nailed the wooden beams.

You coaxed west wind
into the sails;
you mended tattered seams.

Across the world,
Columbus,
you brought your wild dreams.

~Myra Cohn Livingston
From the book Celebrations
attgig
10-13-2003, 09:25 AM
too bad the italians didn't want him.
Peachhead
10-13-2003, 10:12 AM
I just wanted the damn day off. :hmm:
Nija
10-13-2003, 10:18 AM
:cheers: to the guy who "found" our country.

:pfft: to not letting me have the day off
kei2
10-13-2003, 10:23 AM
What good is a holiday if you don't get the day off? That's right, NOTHING. Worthless holiday. Columbus wasn't looking for America anyway, and besides didn't Amerigo Vespucci get here before him? And it's not like there weren't people here already (native Americans and such)...
bachviet
10-13-2003, 10:54 AM
It's a holiday for students & teachers (up to HS) and federal/state employees. I still had to get up early and drag my a$$ to work.
welfareloser
10-13-2003, 11:35 AM
Originally posted by kei2
Columbus wasn't looking for America anyway, and besides didn't Amerigo Vespucci get here before him? And it's not like there weren't people here already (native Americans and such)...

blah blah blah... there's nothing new under the sun. watson and crick didn't really discover dna, either, and and that one white dude wasn't the first to the top of everest. the wright brothers did not single-handedly invent flight. nobody's reality lives up to the legend, and most people here, at least, know that (and the ones that don't can't be convinced anyway...)

we like our legends. it's no fun to celebrate a textbook's worth of information giving due credit to the hundreds of individuals and dozens or hundreds of events that led up to something, as well as making sure we list off every fault of each individual invovled so as not to pretend they were better than they actually were. nobody cares to know that much about every damned thing that ever happened. that's what legends are for. a smart person knows it's a legend and takes it for what it's worth.

point is, he was a singularly motivated individual who put together one heck of an expedition.
Airencracken
10-13-2003, 12:12 PM
Coumbus is dumb.
DaFunkyUnit
10-13-2003, 12:27 PM
Originally posted by Airencracken
Coumbus is dumb.

dumb enough to not be able to spell his own name?

:hihi:
sbp
10-13-2003, 12:34 PM
Originally posted by Airencracken
Coumbus is dumb. Leif Erickson fan? http://home.earthlink.net/~sbp777/smilies/tongueout.gif
nickel
10-13-2003, 12:35 PM
Originally posted by Airencracken
Coumbus is dumb.
i think he meant Columbo :P
Cantacuzene
10-13-2003, 12:48 PM
Another dirty Genoan.
attgig
10-13-2003, 12:48 PM
Originally posted by kei2
What good is a holiday if you don't get the day off? That's right, NOTHING. Worthless holiday. Columbus wasn't looking for America anyway, and besides didn't Amerigo Vespucci get here before him? And it's not like there weren't people here already (native Americans and such)...

I thought it was Leif Erickson or Eric the Red or one of those vikings....
Peachhead
10-13-2003, 01:02 PM
Originally posted by welfareloser


blah blah blah...

Nice point, but what does that have to do with me not getting the day off?


:P
zenbooty
10-13-2003, 01:04 PM
Originally posted by attgig


I thought it was Leif Erickson or Eric the Red or one of those vikings.... Eric the Red? Wasn't that a comedy movie with some of Monty Python's actors?
welfareloser
10-13-2003, 01:53 PM
the vikings did land somewhere near newfoundland... and the natives scared the bajeezus out of em, the countryside was harsh, and they went home after a year or three.

and, no, they didn't leave behind any runestones.

and it was erik the red's expedition. originally from norway, eh and his father had to leave because of their involvement in some killings... tehy went to iceland. from there, he discovered greenland, lived there for three years, returned to iceland with the tale, and then discovered "vinland" - north america, named for the wild grape vines they found there.

one of the scariest things, apparently, was the women warriors, who made some eerie war cries and beat at their bare chests with blades (in medieval scandinavia, it was considered lewd for even a man to expose much of his chest, let alone a woman...)

one of his sons, leif, known as leif the lucky after surviving a capsizement at sea by clinging to debris, was also a colorful dude...
guiseppewv
10-13-2003, 02:25 PM
Originally posted by kei2
What good is a holiday if you don't get the day off? That's right, NOTHING. Worthless holiday. Columbus wasn't looking for America anyway, and besides didn't Amerigo Vespucci get here before him? And it's not like there weren't people here already (native Americans and such)...

No Amerigo Vespucci did not get here before him.


Congrats to Columbus :cheers: :)
eSDee
10-13-2003, 02:34 PM
Originally posted by attgig


I thought it was Leif Erickson


Didn't VH1 do a Behind the Music on him? Like he rolled his car and paralyzed his friend? :confused:




:P
whitak24
10-13-2003, 05:11 PM
Originally posted by eSDeeLoco



Didn't VH1 do a Behind the Music on him? Like he rolled his car and paralyzed his friend? :confused:


:P
i thought he was the quarterback for the chargers for awhile.....er wait, that was RYAN. my bad.

sorry man, that was a low blow wasn't it? :P
zenbooty
10-13-2003, 06:12 PM
Originally posted by DarkFury
Happy "Found the Indians Backyard" Day... :D Eh, they weren't doing much with it, anyway.:D
DaFunkyUnit
10-13-2003, 08:40 PM
Originally posted by DarkFury

Sure... and they just LOVE the new casinos and reservations that were provided for them... :hmm:



:rolleyes: :2far: :shrug:

"How can an ace be a one AND an eleven? What kind of god allows that?!?"
oblongmelon
10-13-2003, 08:52 PM
Originally posted by Cantacuzene
Another dirty Genoan.

:lmfao:
I think "SOMEONE" is jealous that he's not italian ;)
Airencracken
10-13-2003, 08:56 PM
I'm italian, and so I can't spell, big F*ing deal. :D the vikings were first. And the vikings are cool.
Cantacuzene
10-13-2003, 08:59 PM
Originally posted by oblongmelon


:lmfao:
I think "SOMEONE" is jealous that he's not italian ;)

I don't mind Italians except Genoans or Venetians. Very shady folks.
eSDee
10-14-2003, 01:00 AM
Originally posted by whitak24

i thought he was the quarterback for the chargers for awhile.....er wait, that was RYAN. my bad.

sorry man, that was a low blow wasn't it? :P

:mad2:Oh yeah well what about the uh..that time..remember when....

what about those cripple people shoes you be wearing?? :mad3:


;)
cheapchinese
10-14-2003, 03:06 AM
too bad i had school today.... and the crappiest thing happened was, the student stayed half and hour waiting for the instructor who didn't even come....
whitak24
10-14-2003, 03:02 PM
Originally posted by eSDeeLoco


:mad2:Oh yeah well what about the uh..that time..remember when....

what about those cripple people shoes you be wearing?? :mad3:


;)
hey, all you have to do is mention andre ware :2far: :P