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Article: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO STUDENT BLOOPERS.(Humor)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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From Adam and Eve to the Austrian "Arch-Duck," history gets a hilarious rewrite at the hands of some dubious young scholars.
The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?"
God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brother's birthmark. Jacob was a patriarch who brought up his 12 sons to be patriarchs, but they did not take to it. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.
The inhibitants of Egypt were called mummies.
They lived ...