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Anyone here from Tennessee?
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 3:25 pm
by Gob
Just in an idle moment I picked up my copy of "A walk in the woods", by Bill Bryson. I happened on a bit about how Tennessee was trying to introduce a law, forbidding the teaching of evolution in school, which is hysterically funny in itself, and the following quote tickled me;
"And now the state was about to bring the law back, proving conclusively that the danger for Tennesseans isn't so much that they may be descended from apes as that they may be overtaken by them.."
Re: Anyone here from Tennessee?
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:47 pm
by Long Run
I don’t think you’re going to get any volunteers.
Re: Anyone here from Tennessee?
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 10:35 pm
by dales
I'm afraid your double meaning is lost on Gob.
Re: Anyone here from Tennessee?
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 10:44 pm
by TPFKA@W
Gob wrote: ↑Sat Jul 25, 2020 3:25 pm
Just in an idle moment I picked up my copy of "A walk in the woods", by Bill Bryson. I happened on a bit about how Tennessee was trying to introduce a law, forbidding the teaching of evolution in school, which is hysterically funny in itself, and the following quote tickled me;
"And now the state was about to bring the law back, proving conclusively that the danger for Tennesseans isn't so much that they may be descended from apes as that they may be overtaken by them.."
I nearly died laughing frequently throughout the reading of that book. The movie they made did not live up to it as is the usual.
