PENCILS DOWN, PLEASE
HOLY COW! WHAT GOD HATH WROUGHT!!!!! I FINALLY MADE TIME TO OPEN THAT CD SENT BY THE BROTHER WHO TOOK ALL MIKE'S WRITINGS, AND IT IS A NEARLY THREE HUNDRED PAGE RESEARCH PAPER MIKE DID, JUST CHOCK FULL OF HISTORICAL TIDBITS AND INCLUDING THE WORKS HE CITED, WHICH ANY HISTORY BUFF WILL FIND INTERESTING! IT READS AS THOUGH MIKE WERE WRITING IT FOR SOME LESS THAN OPEN MINDED PROF, AND SO HE HAD TO TREAD LIGHTLY AND NOT GET TOO COLORFUL IN HIS MODE OF EXPRESSION, BUT WE STILL HAVE SOME LETTERS LEFT FROM WHICH TO SHARE THE VITALITY OF HIS MORE NATURAL WRITING STYLE, AND THIS BOOK LENGTH PAPER IS A BLESSING THAT WILL FUEL THIS BLOG TO CONTINUE FOR SOME TIME.
THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HEARD FROM MIKE'S LAST WIFE, AND SHE SAID SHE HAS THE BOOK HE WROTE ON THE JFK ASSASSINATION!!!! SHE SAID SHE WILL SEND THAT, TO HELP THE BLOG CONTINUE. I BELIEVE THAT HER GENEROSITY WILL TICKLE MIKEY.
So Michael will continue in report-writing-student mode as I print the contents of his book, but one last time for the immediate future, let him be the teacher, by administering the quiz below to his readers: (Ed.)
Quiz from Mike:
Glenda -- Have you ever known anyone smoke a pack of cigarettes in an hour? Don't lie.
Here's your quiz:
1. Who was known as "Carpetchewer"?
2. Why did the pilgrims drink flour in water in the morning?
a. to wake up
b. relieve hangover
c. nutrition
3. Nationwide, do students score higher on the Verbal or Mathematic section of the SAT test?
4. Yesterday (March 28th) was 100 days before what event?
5. Who was or is the greatest published novelist of all time?
6. Who was the more peaceful soul, Ghandi or Christ?
7. Being a military child, wold you like to see a military uprising throw the weasels out of power?
yes_____
no _____
8. If someone took your life partner hostage, would you walk naked down the center of town to secure their release?
yes_____
no _____
9. If the same someone took your sibling hostage, would you walk naked down the center of the Main Street of your home town to secure their release?
yes_____
no _____
10. Do you care who is elected or re-elected president?
11. Was the Civil War fought over slavery or States' Rights?
12. The Beatles' song I Wanna Be Your Man was originally written for another British group. Which one?
13. Who was president when you were born?
14. Who was younger when he died -- Elvis or John Lennon?
15. Thurl is the shortened form of what 19th-century (common) first name?
16. Is medicine an exact science?
yes_____
no _____
17. Is psychiatry an exact science?
yes_____
no _____
18. Who was Freud's most famous pupil?
19. Does 20/20 mean perfect or accurate vision?
perfect _____
accurate____
20. Which state is split in two sections, widely separated?
21. What would be the layman's definition of "the demographic center of the U.S."? (no peeking)
This test counts 1/6 of your grade. Return it to me for a score, and we will see what we shall see.
Master Mike the Taskmarm,
Bloody Mike