Burner of trees

that all you need to be president is a little bit of charisma, and a legion of hired assassains.

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Futurama quote of the day: (When I remember)

Fry: Man, I thought Ultimate Robot Fighting was real, like pro wrestling, but it turns out it's fixed, like boxing.

Man in Black

lol

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Budweiser buckles and soft faded Wranglers and each night begins a new day, if you can't understand him and he don't die young, he'll probably just ride away.

Roach

American Myths

Myths take many forms.
Would Ralph Lauren have his name on our clothing if he hadn't changed it from Ralph Lipschitz?
Could John Wayne have become heroic as Marion Morrison?
Would Judy Garland have made hearts throb as Frances Gumm?
Would Jon Stewart make it on Comedy Central if he had remained Jon Liebowitz?

Here are ten false myths most Americans believe. Which do you feel is better, perpetuating myths or telling the truth? You know where I stand.

Choose any and begin.

"The US separates church and state"
American Myths

"Justice will triumph"
American Myths

"We have self-government"
American Myths

"You cannot be forced to incriminate yourself"
American Myths

"Americans have free speech"
American Myths

"Americans have free radio and TV"
American Myths

"No man is above the law"
American Myths

"Corporate political contributions aren't bribery"
American Myths

"The best is yet to come"
American Myths

"Abner Doubleday originated baseball"
Trivia on True Story Abner Doubleday Did Not Invent Baseball | Trivia Library


Baseball, the great American pastime, did not originate in America.
Nor did Abner Doubleday, a Civil War army officer, have anything whatsoever to do with inventing it.
Rather, the game is English in origin, and was played long before Doubleday was born.
Around the turn of this century, few people were agreed on precisely how baseball had come to be. In 1907, sporting-goods tycoon Albert G. Spalding, formerly a major league pitching star, appointed a committee of seven to investigate the game's early history and settle once and for all where, when, and how baseball had originated. But the committee was a farce. Composed of politicians, businessmen, and ex-athletes rather than scholars, it was intended, not to ferret out the truth about baseball's beginnings, but rather to rubber-stamp the patriotic Spalding's unfounded belief that baseball was a purely American phenomenon.
Not surprisingly, most of the committee members quickly lost interest in the study, and by year's end its chairman, former National League president A. G. Mills, was working alone.
Early in 1908 Mills submitted his findings to Spalding, and it was then that the Doubleday myth arose. Doubleday, Mills wrote, invented baseball, diagramed and laid out the first diamond, and supervised the first games in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1839. He was an instructor at a local military academy, and the first players of the game were his students.
Spalding liked the report, for it meshed with his own notions of baseball's fundamental Americanness. But little in it had any basis in fact. No one-neither Spalding, nor baseball historian Henry Chadwick, nor anyone else-had ever heard of Doubleday. Doubleday, who had become a prolific writer of magazine articles on a wide variety of subjects in the years following the Civil War, had never penned a single word about the game he supposedly invented, nor could Mills attribute a single quoted remark about baseball to Doubleday. Significantly, Mills and Doubleday had been classmates at West Point, and it is not unlikely that Mills used his report simply to honor his friend.
Moreover, there is ample indication that baseball was played long before 1839 and that it originated in England, not in the U.S. A reference to "base-ball," along with a woodcut illustration of schoolboys playing the game, appears in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, a popular children's book first published in England in 1744. In Princeton, N.J., "base-ball" was banned in 1786. The heroine of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, written in 1798, prefers "cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running around the country at the age of 14 to books." Other pre-1839 references to baseball on both sides of the Atlantic abound. It is now believed that baseball was simply an Americanization of rounders, a sport popular among English schoolboys and related to cricket.
The Doubleday legend might well have died had it not been for the efforts of baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis and others to revive and publicize it as history in the mid-1930s. Interest in the game had been sagging, and attendance at the nation's ball parks was falling off. Landis and his colleagues came upon a dusty copy of the long-forgotten Mills report, which had set 1839 as baseball's year one, and immediately began plans for major centennial observances, culminating with the establishment in 1939 of the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown. Landis's efforts did much to restore interest in baseball, and the museum today is a bottomless repository of information and memorabilia. That its location in Cooperstown is based altogether on fiction seems of little importance.

Mafoo

everyone in america thinks drug dealers are evil... except the dealer they pick up from.

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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return

Roach

nah , I don't.

Only when a dealers intent is to create victims.

America needs more honest taxable legal drug business.

Mafoo

lol the point was that everyone does drugs

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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return

Flamingnun

Oh great, Roach's back.

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kitch

Americans are required by law to eat at least one meal a day at mcdonald's

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osirus2020

In Texas its 2.

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verklingen

^ fuck that noise we got dairy queen bitch

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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

bongobongo

the fact is, america has a lot of different things... like the illegal export of money

Kishar

everytime i would buy a chicken strip basket from dq i'd get a horrible case of bubble gut like 45 minutes later then blow it up. thats why i don't eat there anymore, plus if you get a burger they throw it in the microwave to heat it up...how many shades of wrong is that. their coffee is good but you get tiny cups.

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So, if a stranger walked up to you and poured pebble like seeds into your hand and then said, plant them and your harvest can be made into rope cloth or paper, it could help the sick or intoxicate. What would you say?

Would you keep the seeds or chuck them away?

RollREDRoll

osirus2020

You're a fucking idiot if you expect good food from Dairy Queen. Their ice cream is alright, but that's about it.

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verklingen

must suck having shitty dairy queens. i bet they don't even dip their dipped cones all the way

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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

Kishar

i do like me an oreo blizzard bout once a month.

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So, if a stranger walked up to you and poured pebble like seeds into your hand and then said, plant them and your harvest can be made into rope cloth or paper, it could help the sick or intoxicate. What would you say?

Would you keep the seeds or chuck them away?

RollREDRoll

Mafoo

when i was little (read: fat) i used to feind for the butterfinger blizzard.


im about 4 years clean

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osirus2020

I actually always figured there are good Dairy Queens in different parts of the country, but I'm not sure how true it is. Like I figure DQ didn't come out with the hot dog and just call it popular, it was probably actually a good eat at some places with an actual grill or something.

EDIT: I'm definately getting a blizzard later today.

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Mafoo

all americans majored in politics. and sports.


all americans know everything, and they know it better than you do.

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pacman

we lost our Dairy Queen in the hurricanes of 04.

and the bowling alley next to that. night life around here just isnt the same

Mafoo

all foreigner should know that they are welcome in my land.


im so tanked, im gonna get out

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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return