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(Message started by: ghost62 on Aug 12^th, 2005, 2:07pm)

Title: History Test
Post by ghost62 on Aug 12^th, 2005, 2:07pm

HISTORY TEST - Doesn't seem like we are learning anything!!!

Please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test. The events are actual Events from history. They actually happened!

Do you remember?

1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by

a. Superman
b. Jay Leno
c. Harry Potter
d. a Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40

2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by

a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:

a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:

a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:

a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:

a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:

a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:

a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:

a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:

a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:

a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:

a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:

a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

Nope, .I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winning and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.

Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other dunder-headed attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel doubly ashamed of themselves -- if they have any such sense. As the writer of the award winning story "Forrest Gump" so aptly put it, "Stupid is as stupid does."

Come on, people, wake up!!! Keep this going. Pass it on to everyone in your address book. Our Country and our troops need our support.

And guess who just bombed London?

Title: Re: History Test
Post by ghost62 on Aug 12^th, 2005, 4:57pm

Ok here is another test

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

my results
83% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?

Title: Re: History Test
Post by Lizzie2 on Aug 12^th, 2005, 5:13pm

41% (Yankee) Barely in the Yankee Category.

Wonder if that's cuz I was born in Kentucky? haha

Oh and they should have asked about the pronunciation of 'water.'

Here in Philly/New Jersey area, many of us say 'wooder' - ask Big Dan...he thinks it's hilarious. :)

Title: Re: History Test
Post by Simon on Aug 12^th, 2005, 5:46pm

Imagine what fun this was for a Brit! Forget Dixie/Yankee, barely came out 30% human.

S

Title: Re: History Test
Post by Lizzie2 on Aug 12^th, 2005, 6:54pm

on 08/12/05 at 17:46:59, Simon wrote:

Imagine what fun this was for a Brit! Forget Dixie/Yankee, barely came out 30% human.

S

Don't worry Simon,,,

You can laugh at all the silly things I either misinterpret, don't understand, or just say completely wrong when posting on OUCH UK. It all evens out in the end. [smiley=laugh.gif]

Carrie :)

Title: Re: History Test
Post by Charlie on Aug 12^th, 2005, 7:52pm

45%. The last question isn't something I could really answer. Beats me. Never heard anyone call them anything.

Here in western NY State, we are all say crik for creek. Sort of like your always using "bean" for our "bin," Simon.

Strange that "soda" is now overtaking our area's "pop," ever so slightly. For you Yankee philologists, "pop" is used only west of Syracuse. NY for now. I learned to use "soda when I lived in Utica, NY.

Have a grinda with your tonic, Don & Jonny.

Charlie

Title: Re: History Test
Post by Highlander on Aug 12^th, 2005, 7:57pm

As a Scot (How are supposed to be tied spiritually to our confederate underdog allies)
i seem to be yankee! yet in real loyalty terms I should be a dixie!

43% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

Poor me!

Scott

Title: Re: History Test
Post by sassy_lady on Aug 12^th, 2005, 8:43pm

63% dixie

Title: Re: History Test
Post by BMoneeTheMoneeMan on Aug 12^th, 2005, 9:17pm

I hear you man, and the way we have to protect ourselves is to frisk granny while 1 of the 9/11 hijackers got on to a plane with no ID at all.
Billions and billions of dollars, and like 50,000 new TSA screeners trained to frisk granny.

Are we gonna ever start goin after terrorists with determined fury? We sent 500k troops to help protect Kuwaitis, we sent 150k troops to help protect our beloved Iraqi brethren, and we sent 25k troops to hunt down terrorists and protect americans in afganistan?

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the USA is not doing everything in their power to hunt down and kill terrorists. With well over a million US troops sitting idle across the world, we certainly have not used all of our resources.

BMonee

Title: Re: History Test
Post by minnie on Aug 12^th, 2005, 10:09pm

33% definately a yankee

upstate New york born aqnd raised.
My Dad was raised in southwest Pennsylvania and when he goes "back home "or gets around his family
much he starts speaking with an accent and uses different speech like
Youins or calling hot dogs wieners
its funny to listen to their accents........

Minnie

Title: Re: History Test
Post by BarbaraD on Aug 13^th, 2005, 6:01am

I'm still ticked off cause Nancy C got frisked by a cute National Guard guy and all I got was an ugly woman. I asked for a cute National Guard guy and she told me he wasn't "qualified". I offered to "qualify" him and she got her nose out of joint! How come Nancy gets the breaks?????

Hugs BD

Title: Re: History Test
Post by burnt-toast on Aug 13^th, 2005, 6:41am

So Muslim Extremists didn't just show up to do 9/11?
Got any questions starting from ???BC?

Tom

Title: Re: History Test
Post by Jimmy B. on Aug 13^th, 2005, 7:14am

44 percent Yankee. Barely a Yankee [smiley=huh.gif]

Born and raised most of my life in Southeastern Pennsylvania. With the exception of a 5 year move to South Jersey and my 4 years in Southern California. and not to forget the two or so years in the middle of the Pacific.

100 percent Yankee, thank you & damn proud of it.

(Note: Not to be confused with the Professional Baseball Club...cause then I'm 100 percent Phillie ;;D)

Jimmy

Title: Re: History Test
Post by Drk^Angel on Aug 15^th, 2005, 12:38pm

"53% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line" Fair guess... Federal father... Confederate mother... Lived in both countries for a while each, and now livin' just up the new pike from the line. :P

PFDAN................................... Drk^Angel

Title: Re: History Test
Post by Frank_W on Aug 15^th, 2005, 1:10pm

66% Dixie. How the hell did THAT happen? Born and raised in California, my dad was born and raised in Indiana, and my grandparents are from Dublin, Ireland. LMAO..

Title: Re: History Test
Post by tpitts77 on Aug 15^th, 2005, 1:47pm

48% Yankee

I didn't know that their were still rebels and yankees, until I was at a mall in Alabama in 1996. I saw a little boy outside wear a rebel flag hat. I asked him if he was a rebel. He replied "use a yankee ain't ya."

Born in OH, lived 5 years in VA Beach, VA, 4 years in the military in NC, Now I've lived in PA (20 north of the mason-dixon line) for 5 years.

Title: Re: History Test
Post by floridian on Aug 15^th, 2005, 3:32pm

on 08/12/05 at 14:07:03, ghost62 wrote:

And guess who just bombed London?

Youth born in Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea and Jamaica. Black Africans - another group of darkies y'all best keep an eye on. But there's enough racism to go around to them, too.

Quote:

At least three of the four suspects in the July 21 attempted bombings on the London subway and a bus were born in East Africa, where al-Qaida-linked groups still operate and may be growing in strength, according to a new assessment by counterterrorism experts.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1017881

They had roots in Pakistan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Jamaica: the suspected al-Qaeda foot soldiers in Britain were immigrants or were children of immigrants — a new breed of recruits that underscores the changes in the organization since the Sept. 11 attacks, say experts studying the London bombings.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-08-07-alqaedageneration_x.htm

Title: Re: History Test
Post by Frank_W on Aug 15^th, 2005, 3:45pm

on 08/15/05 at 15:32:53, floridian wrote:

best keep an eye on them darkies, y'all.

Well, it's not nearly as bad as it was in WWII, when every American of Japanese descent was rounded up, loaded onto trains and interred/corralled in barbed-wire camps, their land parceled off, businesses closed and/or ransacked, and men of fighting age drafted and shipped off to Europe to fight the Germans.

Maybe, just maybe, we have learned a thing or two....

Title: Re: History Test
Post by maffumatt on Aug 15^th, 2005, 3:49pm

97% (Dixie). Is General Lee your grandfather?

Title: Re: History Test
Post by Charlie on Aug 16^th, 2005, 12:14am

Quote:

Actually, while nothing to be proud of, the internments applied only to west coast Japanese Americans. Those in the east were not stuck behind barbed wire. A large portion of west coast Japanese were farmers, good ones, but a lot of them lost their land and homes.

One thing that did happen back here was that if they lost their jobs, they had a hard time getting rehired. A lot of eastern Japanese were in business and many employed as domestics. One said that he felt that we looked at immigration differently in the east. No "Yellow Peril" back here, for instance.

Charlie