I sometimes wonder if these stories we are taught as kids really happened, or were just made up. I also wonder how many real stories were never retold.
The remarkable thing is that, with perhaps a year of school in all, Lincoln not only learned the language but proved able to use it more powerfully and poetically than any other chief executive in the republic’s history.
I REALLY hated when that movie came out. There were folks who actually believed it was true and were asking for more sources on his vampire hunting. It was difficult to impossible to get them to understand that both the book and the movie it was based on were works of fiction.
The wooden shovel was in lots of kid’s books about Lincoln when I was a child. How he would write on it, then shave off the writing. When his Dad complained that the shovel was too thin, Abe would chop a tree down and carve another shovel.
According to him, the shovel was for practicing. If something struck his fancy enough, he’d write it out on the shovel. If it was still good enough, he’d re-write it in a more permanent form.
This is the same guy that when he ran out of books to read, convinced somebody to let him read The Revised Statutes of Indiana. And no, it didn’t include the Indiana attempt to create a law making pi equal to something other than 3.14159… since that wasn’t until 1897.
Templo S.U.D. about 3 years ago
No Wikipedia nor Google at the time. How’d she find that story?
ronaldspence about 3 years ago
I dig what you meant Patty! You were just calling a spade a spade…
DaveG1960 about 3 years ago
A+ for imagination
littlejohn Premium Member about 3 years ago
I guess that is another story that will go down in the dustbins of history.
mrcooncat about 3 years ago
PP, you can always fall back on the classic: “Chuck’s beagle ate my homework.”
Darryl Heine about 3 years ago
How can you do homework on the back of a coal shovel?
jrankin1959 about 3 years ago
Next time, Patty, rephrase the statement into something hypothetical… your teacher might be impressed.
jagedlo about 3 years ago
Alternate history by Peppermint Patty!
Decepticomic about 3 years ago
Patty, american history is coloured by enough fantasies about the founding fathers. Don’t add more.
Major Matt Mason Premium Member about 3 years ago
I like how she thinks.
Ellis97 about 3 years ago
You just made that up.
cracker65 about 3 years ago
I sometimes wonder if these stories we are taught as kids really happened, or were just made up. I also wonder how many real stories were never retold.
summerdog about 3 years ago
Who do you think is smarter in school? PP or Sally?
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 3 years ago
If Thomas Lincoln hadn’t made his son erase the report, Peppermint Patty would have had proof.
Culer (super mega based fc barcelona fan of gc) about 3 years ago
Well, there is a chance. Maybe Patty is right. The teacher wasn’t there so, how does she know?
I❤️Peanuts about 3 years ago
The remarkable thing is that, with perhaps a year of school in all, Lincoln not only learned the language but proved able to use it more powerfully and poetically than any other chief executive in the republic’s history.
awcoffman about 3 years ago
I doubt that Abe’s family had a coal shovel. They likely burned wood in their fireplace.
John Jorgensen about 3 years ago
His father’s contempt for education was well known.
Whatever happened to common sense? about 3 years ago
Peppermint Patty has finally discovered something she’s good at in school: creative writing.
Or maybe she took this from one of Snoopy’s “It was a dark and stormy night” stories.
knight1192a about 3 years ago
At least she didn’t claim he killed vampires.
I REALLY hated when that movie came out. There were folks who actually believed it was true and were asking for more sources on his vampire hunting. It was difficult to impossible to get them to understand that both the book and the movie it was based on were works of fiction.
Lightpainter Premium Member about 3 years ago
I’m starting to think Pp is related to Calvin. Hobbes can be embarrassed for both of them.
AlanTompkins about 3 years ago
In PP’s world it is an active imagination.
JastMe about 3 years ago
The wooden shovel was in lots of kid’s books about Lincoln when I was a child. How he would write on it, then shave off the writing. When his Dad complained that the shovel was too thin, Abe would chop a tree down and carve another shovel.
According to him, the shovel was for practicing. If something struck his fancy enough, he’d write it out on the shovel. If it was still good enough, he’d re-write it in a more permanent form.
This is the same guy that when he ran out of books to read, convinced somebody to let him read The Revised Statutes of Indiana. And no, it didn’t include the Indiana attempt to create a law making pi equal to something other than 3.14159… since that wasn’t until 1897.
SteveLederman about 3 years ago
Shades of Judy “It Could Happen!” Tenuta.