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Workman Publishing Company (2001), 160 pages
Description
Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from Term Papers & Blue Book Exams Did You Know: Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus!" Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the "Big Three" Rasputin was a pheasant by birth Judyism had one big God named Yahoo Westward expansion ended at Custard's Last Stand Marie Curie won the Noel Prize for inventing the radiator The Civil Rights movement turned the corner with Martin Luther Junior's famous "If I Had a Hammer" speech
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LibraryThing member hopping_hessien
Wonderful way to pass the time, espescially if you have a background in history. This is also a great book to read if you just recieved a bad grade on a paper. Favorite quotte: Robert E. Lee defeated the allies at the battle of Yorktown.
LibraryThing member pratchettfan
This collection of anecdotes from college essays are just mind-boggling. Sometimes a small typo changes the meaning of a sentence, at other times the students clearly mixed up the facts (or made them up as they went along). In any case this is a very entertaining read which challenges one's own
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knowledge of "recent" history. Show Less
LibraryThing member mmyoung
At best a book for reading in spurts no longer than a minute or two. After that its relentless one note humour begins to pall.
LibraryThing member ElenaGwynne
Funny in small doses. Some of these are "are they real?" level, but hilariously funny - if a bit scary (these are apparently university and college students making these mistakes).
LibraryThing member Big_Bang_Gorilla
Being a collection of amusing, occasionally hilarious, malapropisms and factual confusions which emanate from the minds of today's young scholars. This concept could, and should, be extended to other fields besides history, and could also support a monthly humor magazine.
LibraryThing member Devil_llama
A humorous look at the world of students, written by a history professor who has been keeping track of answers on tests for years. Funny, but not so funny, because many of the mistakes hit too close to home for any teacher.
LibraryThing member gundulabaehre
This book is amazingly funny. However, I think it would be even funnier and a bit less "student-oriented" if the author (compiler) had included some bloopers made by professors and instructors as well. Because, not only students make funny mistakes and inadvertent bloopers, professors, instructors,
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lab technicians etc. also make these at times (I know that I have accidentally written some inadvertently funny bloopers on German language exam questions, and I'm not ashamed of admitting this). Show Less
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English
Original publication date
2001
ISBN
0761122745 / 9780761122746
UPC
019628122742