D-Day = 1899 and US President Denzel Washington orders Anne Frank to storm Nazi-occupied New Zealand

[MrDingleDangle]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=OCP2Z2YM22UTZQFIQMFCM5WAVCBQYJVC?xml=/news/2004/05/30/ndday30.xml

 

[AcidicFury]

I wouldn't be surprised if American children didn't know that stuff either.

 

[Bulk Beef]

Others thought that the invasion was led by Anne Frank, Private Ryan (the eponymous hero of the Steven Spielberg D-Day epic), or Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Eisenhower's deputy.

Well that just pisses me off.

 

[0roo0roo]

He said: "I asked him how he knew material which we had not covered in school. He told me he had picked it up from a D-Day game he played on his computer."/q]


hah, yea ww2 games...so many these days. so not to worry. and then theres the all hitler channel(history channel)..


but it could be worse. in north korea they make children read anne franks diary to learn how not to be a loser like her.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/26/60minutes/main602415.shtml

 

[yukichigai]

This reminds me of an SNL skit, a precursor to Celebrity Jeopardy about a Jeopardy-like show with one key difference: the answers were what the plurality of surveyed highschoolers answered. Who lead the Mexican army's attack against the Alamo? "Jose Cuervo" And so on and so forth. The poor teacher who was a contestant on the show had no hope whatsoever.

 

[jagec]

wow. Guess American schoolchildren don't have a monopoly on stupidity.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
but it could be worse. in north korea they make children read anne franks diary to learn how not to be a loser like her.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/26/60minutes/main602415.shtml

That's an eye-opener. My only hope is that Kim Jong dies very soon and very alone.