That would have actually been a pretty good angle. Too bad the museum seems to lack anyone of subby's vision.

+1

Admission includes a free showing of Our American Cousin.

palexc: Admission includes a free showing of Our American Cousin.

Strangely, the luxury box tickets are way cheaper than the pavilion seats.

His second inaugural is the greatest speech ever given.

the exhibit will be open four score and seven days before moving on

That's eighty-seven days, for you Obama voters.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Trivia Jockey: palexc: Admission includes a free showing of Our American Cousin.

Strangely, the luxury box tickets are way cheaper than the pavilion seats.


Damn, I should have gone with "but if you're going to go to the show, be sure to avoid the private Booth."

How long did you say ?

Biggest misstatement in history:

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,

Trivia Jockey: Damn, I should have gone with "but if you're going to go to the show, be sure to avoid the private Booth."

Private Booth?
I though he promised his mama that he wouldnt join the army.

AnonymousGuy: the exhibit will be open four score and seven days before moving on

That's eighty-seven days, for you Obama voters.

*raises hand* I've known what a "score" was since I was 14, and I voted with Obama against McCain.

Democrat =/= Stupid. For that matter Republican =/= stupid as a necessity. It's just that people in general are stupid as dirt.

Demonstrators outside the museum holding signs up while running... something-something 'pickets charge'...


ahh, got nuthin'

Makes me wish I could find that old Farside cartoon of Lincoln reading a copy of the Gettysburg Address where it says, " . . . so then the bartender says, 'Hey, that's not a duck!' (wait for laughter) Four score and seven years ago . . ."

Birth Control 2 Major Tom: His second inaugural is the greatest speech ever given.

agreed.

AnonymousGuy: the exhibit will be open four score and seven days before moving on

That's eighty-seven days, for you Obama voters.

Durr hurr hurr. Someone's all butt-hurt about the election, which makes me happy.

Will any of his racist writings be on display?

pavinrtheway: Biggest misstatement in history:

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,

Sadly, it seems that many have forgotten what was done there.

Between the Field Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry I wonder how many people even know this place exists?

So they'll hire a series of incompetent exhibit designers only to find someone good enough to jam it down our throats?

ThreeEyedOni: AnonymousGuy: the exhibit will be open four score and seven days before moving on

That's eighty-seven days, for you Obama voters.

*raises hand* I've known what a "score" was since I was 14, and I voted with Obama against McCain.

Democrat =/= Stupid. For that matter Republican =/= stupid as a necessity. It's just that people in general are stupid as dirt.

I've also known what a "score" was since I was 14. However, I held my nose and voted for McCain over Hopey McChangey.

And I never equated Democrats with stupid, and I never will. Obama voters, on the other hand...

One of the funniest and saddest videos that I've seen recently was Ziegler's interviews with the 12 Obama voters. (Hah! 12 apostles to the Oba-Messiah! I wonder if that was deliberate.) Funny, because the degree of obliviousness was epic in scope. Sad, because these were the ones who described themselves as "informed" and were willing to go on camera. You know that there were more Obama voters who would make these 12 look like Einsteins, but wouldn't consent to be on camera (for whatever reason).

Granted, it's been a while since I was 18, back when I knew it all. But it seems like today's younger generation knows even less than we did at that point in our lives, but think that they know even more than we ever did. As a result, they vote Obama. I don't think these two things are unrelated.

AnonymousGuy: And I never equated Democrats with stupid, and I never will. Obama voters, on the other hand...

One of the funniest and saddest videos that I've seen recently was Ziegler's interviews with the 12 Obama voters. (Hah! 12 apostles to the Oba-Messiah! I wonder if that was deliberate.) Funny, because the degree of obliviousness was epic in scope. Sad, because these were the ones who described themselves as "informed" and were willing to go on camera. You know that there were more Obama voters who would make these 12 look like Einsteins, but wouldn't consent to be on camera (for whatever reason).


Trolling Man is troll-y.

Smokey The Bear

Thanks for that, for some reason Rape Lincoln^TM always cracks me up.

Also, I agree with the Lincoln's speech being one of the greatest ever.

87!

Copperbelly watersnake: Between the Field Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry I wonder how many people even know this place exists?

As part of the Manuscript Society I was able to see a private exhibit there years ago (when it was still called the Chicago Historical Society). It's the greatest collection of US manuscripts I've ever seen, including the 13th Amendment signed by Lincoln and all of Congress. And a Button Gwinnett, the rarest of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, which few of us, including autograph dealers, had ever seen in person before.

I can't recommend the CHM highly enough.

DarnoKonrad: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Spoiler alert!

And opening across the street, the revived production of "My American Cousin."


/D'oh!
//no irony

[They look at an Abraham Lincoln robot in the corner.]

Fry: Let me guess, he thinks he's Lincoln?

Unit 2013: Well, he's supposed to. Problem is he's got multiple personalities -- all of them Lincoln.

[The robot stands up.]

Lincolnbot: I was born in 200 log cabins.

Birth Control 2 Major Tom: His second inaugural is the greatest speech ever given.

i have to argue that the Gettysburg address is the greatest, while his second inaugural comes in a close second.

The brevity and emotion invoked in the Gettysburg address. I can imagine the crowd gathered to hear it. Several drool speeches surely came before him, the onlookers were polite and attentive waiting for Mr. Lincoln to come forward. Polite applause. He took his reading glasses out and placed them upon the bridge of his nose, and then the notes out of his breast pocket and laid them before him, and spoke. Mere minutes later he finished, and folded his notes and reading glasses and returned them to their pockets. The crowd stands there quietly as the words sink in. Then slowly applause grows as the realization of the moment sinks in.

Or something like that.

Everyone knew the Second inaugural was going to be good, and only a fool would have guessed it would deal with the ongoing war, and a call to continue to struggle. But his Gettysburg was contrasted by the drool political speeches of the day (age and specific day).

Er, A fool wouldn't have guessed...

oh well. I fail at this writing thing.

Copperbelly watersnake: Between the Field Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry I wonder how many people even know this place exists?

I do now. There are so many great things to see and experience in this city.

ThreeEyedOni 2009-01-08 10:43:48 AM
AnonymousGuy: the exhibit will be open four score and seven days before moving on

That's eighty-seven days, for you Obama voters.

*raises hand* I've known what a "score" was since I was 14, and I voted with Obama against McCain.

Democrat =/= Stupid. For that matter Republican =/= stupid as a necessity. It's just that people in general are stupid as dirt.


Can't even aspire to be a troll. Put it back under the rock you found it.

Madame Ovary: Copperbelly watersnake: Between the Field Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry I wonder how many people even know this place exists?

I do now. There are so many great things to see and experience in this city.


It may seem unfamiliar to some because it was renamed a few years ago...it used to be called the Chicago Historical Society.

Mary Todd Lincoln was one hot piece of ass.

DaMacGuy: Birth Control 2 Major Tom: His second inaugural is the greatest speech ever given.

i have to argue that the Gettysburg address is the greatest, while his second inaugural comes in a close second.

The brevity and emotion invoked in the Gettysburg address. I can imagine the crowd gathered to hear it. Several drool speeches surely came before him, the onlookers were polite and attentive waiting for Mr. Lincoln to come forward. Polite applause. He took his reading glasses out and placed them upon the bridge of his nose, and then the notes out of his breast pocket and laid them before him, and spoke. Mere minutes later he finished, and folded his notes and reading glasses and returned them to their pockets. The crowd stands there quietly as the words sink in. Then slowly applause grows as the realization of the moment sinks in.

Or something like that.

Everyone knew the Second inaugural was going to be good, and only a fool would have guessed it would deal with the ongoing war, and a call to continue to struggle. But his Gettysburg was contrasted by the drool political speeches of the day (age and specific day).

I'm deeply impressed that we can have this discussion.

Also, Darconix was outed as a 17-year-old boy several weeks ago. Keep that in mind at all times.

Someone told me once that more Americans died in the Battle of Gettysburg than in all of the Vietnam War.

Can I use google earth to locate his gettysburg address?

/Lincoln's Logs
//City of big shoulders

oldass31: Someone told me once that more Americans died in the Battle of Gettysburg than in all of the Vietnam War.

There were 51,000-some casualties but those were mostly wounded. Still appalling.

Birth Control 2 Major Tom: There were 51,000-some casualties but those were mostly wounded.


How many were mostly dead?

Trivia Jockey: Birth Control 2 Major Tom: There were 51,000-some casualties but those were mostly wounded.


How many were mostly dead?

6-7 thousand dead, depending on who was dead vs. desertion.

DaMacGuy: Birth Control 2 Major Tom: His second inaugural is the greatest speech ever given.

i have to argue that the Gettysburg address is the greatest, while his second inaugural comes in a close second.

The brevity and emotion invoked in the Gettysburg address. I can imagine the crowd gathered to hear it. Several drool speeches surely came before him, the onlookers were polite and attentive waiting for Mr. Lincoln to come forward. Polite applause. He took his reading glasses out and placed them upon the bridge of his nose, and then the notes out of his breast pocket and laid them before him, and spoke. Mere minutes later he finished, and folded his notes and reading glasses and returned them to their pockets. The crowd stands there quietly as the words sink in. Then slowly applause grows as the realization of the moment sinks in.

Or something like that.

Everyone knew the Second inaugural was going to be good, and only a fool would have guessed it would deal with the ongoing war, and a call to continue to struggle. But his Gettysburg was contrasted by the drool political speeches of the day (age and specific day).

Had to read this (new window) for my history class in college. Highly recommended if you're interested in the subject.

Birth Control 2 Major Tom: Trivia Jockey: Birth Control 2 Major Tom: There were 51,000-some casualties but those were mostly wounded.


How many were mostly dead?

6-7 thousand dead, depending on who was dead vs. desertion.


Lol, thanks, but I was making a joke.

oldass31: Someone told me once that more Americans died in the Battle of Gettysburg than in all of the Vietnam War.

Civil war battle figures are always staggeringly mind numbing.

You'd thick Europe would have payed attention before trying out industrialized warfare 50 years later.

Trivia Jockey: Birth Control 2 Major Tom: Trivia Jockey: Birth Control 2 Major Tom: There were 51,000-some casualties but those were mostly wounded.


How many were mostly dead?

6-7 thousand dead, depending on who was dead vs. desertion.


Lol, thanks, but I was making a joke.

You may have to explain it to him, most liberals are pretty humorless.

Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

Trivia Jockey: Birth Control 2 Major Tom: Trivia Jockey: Birth Control 2 Major Tom: There were 51,000-some casualties but those were mostly wounded.


How many were mostly dead?

6-7 thousand dead, depending on who was dead vs. desertion.


Lol, thanks, but I was making a joke.

You made me think of a Jewel song.

Fan of her bustline, but not her music.

Is this the one that has the word "suckers" crossed out?

four hundred rabbits: Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

Bill Pullman truly is America's Greatest Orator! Pullman 2012!