Funny Moments in History

Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 7:37 pm

Decemberist Revolt.

Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 8:02 pm

The Holocaust.
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 8:49 pm

The beginning of christianity.

Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:13 pm

PRI's takeover of Mexico

Imperial Guard Joined: 08 Sep 2007 Posts: 613

When the third atomic bomb that was supposed to be dropped on Japan got lost in a storage bin in Guam.

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:10 am

Jack the IV wrote:

When the third atomic bomb that was supposed to be dropped on Japan got lost in a storage bin in Guam.

I don't recall ever hearing anything about them finding it.

I think the funniest moment in history would be the extinction of the dinosaurs (technically not history, but whatever). Giant lizards that ruled the planet as the dominate species and BAM! One motherfucking asteroid wipes them all out leaving only the small mice-like creatures, fish, and birds (which evolved prior to the extinction of the dinosaurs according to new evidence) to survive.

That. Is. Ironic.

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 4:10 am

The government loses atomic bombs all the time, in 1961 two of them were jettisoned from a plane over North Carolina only one was recovered. Out of six failsafes to stop a detonation, five failed on the bomb which was recovered the sixth and final failsafe was all that stopped it from going off.

The lost bomb is in some boggy farmland, and periodic radiation testing is done on the ground water. The ground itself is too unstable for deep digging, so they'll never be able to recover it.

Last year the U.S. Air Force mistakenly transported live nuclear missles over several states, pissing off alot of people and sparking an investigation.

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:28 am

When I went to see Speed Racer yesterday, there was a preview for a comedy movie (I forgot the name) and this guy was like; "I have shipped thousands of armed nuclear warheads to hundreds of unstable dictators all around the world."

I couldn't help but ask (out loud) "why?"

Imperial Guard Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 664

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 12:55 pm

Scouts, who let you in here?

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:29 pm

Guru Parasky wrote:

Scouts, who let you in here?

Damned freedom of speech, that's what.

Tongue

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 11:54 pm

Lazurath wrote:

Guru Parasky wrote:

Scouts, who let you in here?

Damned freedom of speech, that's what.

Tongue

Fail.

Oh, and the funniest moment in history?

The day that man, Winston Churchill, was elected Prime Minister of England.

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 11:57 pm

Funny: When the Confederate States of America offered Mexican President Benito Juárez (Mexico's only non-white president ever) an alliance against Abraham Lincoln (Juarez's longtime friend).

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 11:57 pm

Had the CSA won, North America would have more countries than Europe. The US would have collapsed then and there.

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:12 pm

'this peice of paper'

Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:12 am

This is my first post on this site...greetings, Very Happy

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haha, I have a couple of favorite funny moments in history, that always give me a chuckle...

A piece of history that is just riddled with humor is:

1) When Robespierre took over the french government, began the 'reign of terror', but named his new government the "committee of public safety" (haha, the irony). Then, he came up with a secret list of traitors from deep inside his own administration, which would be made public and the traitors taken into custody and guillotined...but everyone was so afraid that their name was on the list that they all banded together and staged a coup (so, in the end, everyone turned out to be a traitor because they were afraid of being accused of being a traitor!)....Robespierre decided he didn't want to be taken alive though, so he tried to shoot himself but missed! He only wounded his temple...(that part always makes me smile). Then, after some time, when the Directory was in control of the french government, another pair of ambitious politicians decided to stage a coup, but realized they needed a man the military would rally around, and so decided to use this young man named Napoleon, and they siezed control with the intention of becoming a triumvirate, but then Napoleon promptly fired the other two.

2) Alexander Hamilton decided to get Jefferson elected instead of Aaron Burr, and Burr got so angry he challenged Hamilton to a duel. Hamilton accepts, wins the coin toss to get first shot, but shoots straight up in the air as a sign of his unwillingness to shoot Burr. Burr then proceeds to shoot Hamilton in the chest, killing him.

3) "that depends on what the definition of is, is"

4) The Watergate fiasco that sank Nixon occurred because of the creation of the committee crep: Committee to Re Elect the President. haha, love the irony.

Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:57 am

Sheesh, way to necropost much.

Century Soldier Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 150

Don't feed him.

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:38 pm

Cookies and Milk?

Century Soldier Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 150

NEIN!