some basic lessons for you then. Now pay attention Sharon, stop fidgeting, and get back to me when you have reached the standard hereby shown by some of my other pupils……….
– Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and canonised by Bernard Shaw.
– Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offence.
– In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer. He wrote poems and verses and also rote literature.
– William Tell shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son’s head.
– Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen”. As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted “hurrah”.
– It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Guttenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Ralegh invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with his 100 foot clipper.
– The greatest writer was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1964, supposedly on his birthday. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo’s last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
– Miguel Cervantes was writing at the same time. He wrote a book called Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
– Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic.
– Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim’s Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all of this.
– One of the causes of the Revoltionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. Finally, the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, stood against Benjamin Franklin who was a singer of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and then he declared, ” A horse divided against itself cannot stand.”
Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.