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poopshovel
poopshovel SuperDork
7/6/10 4:10 p.m.

It's supposed to be funny. Everyone else is laughing. I'm just sick to my stomach. You go, Grandpa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkQ6XgXeNuY

Eeeergh. And here I am; the asshat who didn't end the thread title with a question mark.

Strizzo
Strizzo SuperDork
7/6/10 4:31 p.m.

let me help

?

thatsnowinnebago
thatsnowinnebago GRM+ Memberand Dork
7/6/10 4:47 p.m.

I wish stupidity hurt. I really do.

Osterkraut
Osterkraut Dork
7/6/10 4:58 p.m.

And people are fighting over teaching evolution in schools... teach them whatever you what, folks, they're not going to remember it!

914Driver
914Driver SuperDork
7/6/10 5:52 p.m.

... or as the Brits call it "Thanksgiving".

Marty!
Marty! Dork
7/6/10 6:19 p.m.

I heard clips of this on the radio. People driving by probably thought I was crazy as I was screaming at my radio.

z31maniac
z31maniac Dork
7/6/10 6:26 p.m.

Can we have forced Emmigration for all these people?

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
7/6/10 6:52 p.m.

Color me stunned but not terribly surprised.

Toyman01
Toyman01 GRM+ Memberand Dork
7/6/10 6:53 p.m.

So the education system is doing an outstanding job since the feds stuck their nose in it. Kind of bad when the only person that could answer was Grandpa.

If you can't answer those questions do me a favor, don't vote. There is nothing more dangerous than an ignorant voter.

Man that makes me sick.

jbone
jbone New Reader
7/6/10 7:08 p.m.

None of those people should be allowed to vote.

NYG95GA
NYG95GA SuperDork
7/6/10 7:08 p.m.

Apparently we won our independence from Greece in 1922.

Who knew?

Trans_Maro
Trans_Maro Dork
7/6/10 7:20 p.m.

Sad...

I knew most of the right answers...

And I'm Canadian!

stuart in mn
stuart in mn SuperDork
7/6/10 7:24 p.m.

"Why did Washington cross the Potomac?" "To get to the other side."

I suppose that is a correct answer, just not the answer Jay was looking for.

wbjones
wbjones Dork
7/6/10 7:38 p.m.

as bad as I know it has gotten.... I had no idea it could possibly be this bad.... a so called college professor ..... I know they won't be, but I hope those people are ashamed of themselves.......

JeepinMatt
JeepinMatt HalfDork
7/6/10 7:51 p.m.

To be fair, Paul Revere didn't say "the British are coming!" What he really said was "the Regulars are out!"

ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
7/6/10 8:02 p.m.

they probably all voted for bush.. Haaa!

dyintorace
dyintorace GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
7/6/10 8:08 p.m.

I'm midway through reading the biography of John Adams, and while I knew why we celebrate the 4th of July as a holiday, I have a new found respect for what those folks went through that summer. The entire summer, fall and winter of that year were unbelievable.

carguy123
carguy123 SuperDork
7/6/10 9:18 p.m.
ignorant wrote: they probably all voted for bush.. Haaa!

Actually that's all the Obamites

Jensenman
Jensenman SuperDork
7/6/10 9:36 p.m.

But I bet they all know what the Kardashians had for dinner and the names of all of Paris Hilton's dogs.

Disgusting. Particularly the so called 'college professor'.

Salanis
Salanis SuperDork
7/6/10 9:51 p.m.

Only one I missed was, "Who sewed the first flag?" I'm terrible with names.

carguy123 wrote:
ignorant wrote: they probably all voted for bush.. Haaa!
Actually that's all the Obamites

I'm pretty sure that, if you polled enough people with would be about a 25/25/40/10 split. 25 Bush, 25 Obama, 40 that didn't vote at all, and 10 that can't remember who they voted for.

Platinum90
Platinum90 SuperDork
7/6/10 10:03 p.m.
Salanis wrote: Only one I missed was, "Who sewed the first flag?" I'm terrible with names.
carguy123 wrote:
ignorant wrote: they probably all voted for bush.. Haaa!
Actually that's all the Obamites
I'm pretty sure that, if you polled enough people with would be about a 25/25/40/10 split. 25 Bush, 25 Obama, 40 that didn't vote at all, and 10 that can't remember who they voted for.

Bush ran against Obama? Where was I for that election?

Bob Ross!

sorry... I caught one of these!

aeronca65t
aeronca65t Dork
7/6/10 10:11 p.m.

It's called video editing.

Ask 100 people a simple question and you're bound to get a few really inane responses.

Then play the dumbest responses back and imply they're "representative".

Kind of like the people selected for reality shows are "just normal folks".

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
7/6/10 10:17 p.m.

Without Google, how well does the average American know our history? What about semi-recent history like World War II? When did it start? When did we enter? Who were our main allies? Why was Germany split in two?

JeepinMatt
JeepinMatt HalfDork
7/6/10 10:25 p.m.
David S. Wallens wrote: Without Google, how well does the average American know our history? What about semi-recent history like World War II? When did it start? When did we enter? Who were our main allies? Why was Germany split in two?

I had a film class in college (I had to pick something that qualified as arts) and it was an ugly sight. Even the teacher got in on it. The class and the teacher were "correcting" each other about the Vietnam War. They all kept getting it confused with World War 2, saying it happened around 1940 and mixing the two wars together as if someone took two textbooks on the subjects and dropped them in a blender. I think one person was thinking that the Vietnamese attacked Pearl Harbor. The teacher said it ended in the '50s. It was a mess.

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
7/6/10 10:40 p.m.

The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, right?

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