Posted on 03/23/2017 3:00:15 PM PDT by entropy12
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
'I want to repay you,' said the nobleman. 'You saved my son's life.' 'No, I can't accept payment for what I did,' the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.
'Is that your son?' the nobleman asked. 'Yes,' the farmer replied proudly.
'I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.' And that he did.
Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill ...
His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill ...
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
It may be a real story, but just not not a true one...
Goose bumpy.
I do not wish to be that skeptical.
England sure could use another Winnie right now
I think the young Churchill must have fell into a bog of bovine excrement, which is what this story is.
Nice story - apparently completely bogus, but nice: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/myths/sir-alexander-fleming-twice-saved-churchills-life
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Even if the story didn’t happen, it should have.
Even if the story didn’t happen, it should have.
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Oh, it will happen if Rachel Maddow gets hold of it. Except.
The farmer will be Donald Trump and he will watch the boy in the bog go down for the fourth time because the boy was a gay muslim transvestite from Mexico.
And Russians. And stuff.
In a similar vein, I have a cherry tree in my yard that I prize and someone cut it down. Oh, George?!!
“and there in the cave was the VERY BEAR HE SAVED...”
“and the picture on the wall WAS HIS FATHER’S!”
“and then she saw IT WAS THE SAME SHADE OF PURPLE!”
I can do this all day.
:)
Fake but accurate is good enough for CBS Evening News.
Nowadays the story would be about some poor boy stuck in the muck and a muslim man laughed and sneered and went on his way.
And they boy died a slow horrible death.
The end.
I don’t know, I heard its a legend.
REALLY praying that’s a true story..!
“It may be a real story, but just not not a true one...”
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Heh. You learn to spot ‘em right off the bat - you can tell by the prosaic nature.
And the old man said, "that place has been closed for years."
Hanging from the rear view mirror was.... The HOOK!
It is actually factually accurate but with some literary embellishments.
This is a story in the spirit of good human deeds. Unless there is proof it is false, why not file it as such?
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