A PowerPoint presentation based on students bloopers arranged in chronological order and compiled by teacher, Richard Lederer. This was produced for a Bus Admin course assignment.

1. Excerpts from genuine history assignments written by American students from 8th grade to college level. Read carefully. You’ll be surprised what you learn.

2. The inhabitants of Ancient Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert... and rode by Camelot

3. The first book of The Bible ... The Bible is full of interesting caricatures was called... Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree GUINNESSES

4. One of Jacob’s sons gave refuse to the Israelites Jacob was a patriarch who brought up his twelve sons to be patriarchs but they did not take to it. Joseph David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar

5. fought with the Philatelists a race of people who lived in Biblical times King David Solomon, one of David’s sons, had 500 wives 500 porcupines and

6. Without the Greeks we wouldn’t have history. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. Homer wasn’t written by Homer but by another man of that name.

7. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them. Weren’t we here last Wednesday? Maybe... it does looks familiar All I know is my feet are killing me!

8. In Midevil times m o st o f the pe o ple were alliterate. Mwaah ! ! Malc o lm’s m o ved me mare ! Listen – Lily likes Li o nel ! ! Just jesting

9. An o ther tale tells o f William Tell wh o sh o t an arr o w thr o ugh an apple. while standing o n his s o n’s head The greatest writer o f the time was Chauser wh o wr o te many p o ems and verses and als o wr o te s o me literature.

10. The Renaissance was an age in which more people felt the value of their human being Martin Luther was nailed to the church door For selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull

11. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper. Queen Elizabeth’s navy then went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo

12. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian and half English. He was very large Bach died from 1750 to the present. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music.

13. Delegates from the original thirteen states formed the Contented Congress Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

14. When Lincoln was President, he wore only a tall silk hat. Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while travelling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope

15. The First World War caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck ushered in a new error in the anals of human history by a surf

16. The End A L a u g h s R U s Production Produced and Directed by Michelle Dale Animations and Soundtrack Michelle Dale Music Excerpts from The Nutcracker Suite Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Philadelphia Orchestra Conducted by Leopold Stokowski Excerpt from La Gazza Ladra Overture Gioacchino Rossini New York Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Danny Kaye Thank you for watching