CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEST.

KIDS WERE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. THE FOLLOWING 25 STATEMENTS ABOUT THE BIBLE WERE WRITTEN BY CHILDREN. *THEY HAVE NOT BEEN RETOUCHED OR CORRECTED. INCORRECT SPELLING HAS BEEN LEFT IN*.

1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATH OFF.

2. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH'S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK. NOAH BUILT AND ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS.

3. LOTS WIFE WAS A PILLAR OF SALT DURING THE DAY, BUT A BALL OF FIRE DURING THE NIGHT.

4. THE JEWS WERE A PROUD PEOPLE AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH UNSYMPATHETIC GENITALS.

5. SAMPSON WAS A STRONGMAN WHO LET HIMSELF BE LED ASTRAY BY A JEZEBEL LIKE DELILAH.

7. MOSES LED THE JEWS TO THE RED SEA WHERE THEY MADE UNLEAVENED BREAD, WHICH IS BREAD WITHOUT ANY INGREDIENTS.

8. THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP TO MOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

11. MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHED CANADA THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN THE BATTLE OF GERITOL.

12. THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM.

13. DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT THE FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES.

16. WHEN THE THREE WISE GUYS FROM THE EAST SIDE ARRIVED THEY FOUND JESUS IN THE MANAGER.

19. JESUS ENUNCIATED THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH SAYS TO DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO ONE TO YOU. HE ALSO EXPLAINED A MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY SWEAT ALONE.

20. IT WAS A MIRICLE WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND MANAGED TO GET THE TOMBSTONE OFF THE ENTRANCE.

24. ST. PAUL CAVORTED TO CHRISTIANITY, HE PREACHED HOLY ACRIMONY, WHICH IS ANOTHER NAME FOR MARRAIGE.

Someone gave me a copy of this when I was in high-school; it’s a collection of “bona-fide, certified, actual” students’ mistakes, all amassed by Richard Lederer, linguist and author. He includes much of it in his book, “Anguished English.” Recommendation: Read it aloud.

A HISTORY OF THE WORLD

Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies, and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation. Early Egyptian women often wore a garment called a calasiris. It was a sheer dress which started beneath the breasts which hung to the floor.

The pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain. The Egyptians built the pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube.

The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked, “Am I my brother’s son?”

God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brothers birthmark. Jacob was a patriarch, who brought up his 12 sons to be patriarchs, but they did not take to it. One of Jacob’s sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.

Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. He fought with the Finkelsteins, a race of people who lived in Biblical times. Solomon, one of David’s sons, had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.

Later came Job, who had one trouble after another. Eventually, he lost all his cattle and all his children and had to live alone with his wife in the desert.

The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the river Stynx until he became intollerable. Achilles appears in the “Iliad,” by Homer. Homer also wrote the “Oddity,” in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath.

Eventually, the Romans conquered the Geeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: “Tee hee, Brutus.” Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
Rome came to have too many luxuries and baths. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlics in their hair. They took two baths in two days , and that’s the cause of the fall of Rome. Rome was invaded by ballbearings, and is full of fallen arches today.

Then came the Middle ages, when everyone was middle age. King Alfred conquered the Dames. King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery with brave knights on prancing horses and beautiful women. King Harold mustarded his troops before the battle of Hastings. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. And victims of the blue-bonnet plague grew boobs on their necks. Finally, Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature. During this time people put on morality plays about ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other mythical creatures. Another story was about William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son’s head.

The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. It was the painter Dontello’s interest in the female nude that made him the father of the Renaissance.

The government of England was a limited mockery. From the womb of Henry VIII Protestantism was born. He found walking difficult because he had an abbess on his knee.

Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted “hurrah.” Then her Navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo.

It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removeable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historic figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.

The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.
In one of Shakespeare’s famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. His mind is filled with the filth of incestuous sheets which he pours over every time he sees his mother. In another play, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood. The clown in “As You Like It” is named Touchdown, and Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo’s last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote “Donkey Hote.” The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote “Paradise Lost.” Then his wife died and he wrote “Paradise Regained.”

During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Sante Fe.

Later the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim’s Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.

One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. During the War, the Red Coats and Paul Revere was throwing balls over stone walls. The dogs were barking and the peacocks crowing. Finally, the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis.

Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin invented electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, “ a horse divided against itself cannot stand.” Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
George Washington married Martha Curtis and in due time became the Father of Our Country. His farewell address was Mount Vernon.

Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.

Abraham Lincoln became America’s greatest Precedent. Lincoln’s mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Lincoln said, “In onion there is strength.”

Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope. He also freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation.

On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth’s career.

Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltair invented electricity and also wrote a book called “Candy.” Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn, when the apples are falling off the trees.

Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present.

Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large.

Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

France was in a very serious state. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon. During the Napoleonic Wars, the crowned heads of Europe were trembling in their shoes. Then the Spanish gorillas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon’s flanks. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn’t have any children.

The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.

The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the “Organ of the Species.” Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.

The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.

The 19th century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat by Robert Fulton caused a network of rivers to spring up. Samuel Morse invented a code of telepathy. Eli Whitney invented the spinning gin. Thomas Edison invented the pornograph and the indecent lamp.
The First World War was caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist. The First World War, cause by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist. During the early part of World War I President Woodrow Wilson urged the people to stay in neutral. Then he had many foreign affairs, and America entered the War. The unfortunate soldiers spent day after day up to their wastes in filth. It ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.

World War I made the people so sad that it brought on the Great Depression. Then the New Deal tried to make sure that the stock market will never happen again. Charles Limburger was the first man to ever cross the Atlantic alone. He wanted to go by regular airlines, but he couldn’t afford to buy a ticket. When he got to Paris, all the French people shouted, “Bonzai!”

World War II happened when Adolph Hitler and the Knotsies tried to conquer Europe. Hitler always liked to call himself Der Furor, but his real name was Messer Smith. Franklin Roosevelt won a landslide and went over there and put a stop to Hitler, who committed suicide in his bunk. World War II ended on VD Day.

Martin Luther had a dream. He went to Washington and recited his Sermon on the Monument. Later, he nailed 96 Protestants in the Watergate Scandal.

A readable version of:

A HISTORY OF THE WORLD – Collected by author, teacher, and linguist, Richard Lederer, and included in, among his other books, “Anguished English: An Assault on the English Language...”

1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies, and they all wrote in hydraulics.
2. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot.
3. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation.
4. Early Egyptian women often wore a garment called a calasiris.
5. It was a sheer dress which started beneath the breasts which hung to the floor.
6. The pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain.
7. The Egyptians built the pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube.
8. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures.
9. In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree.
10. One of their children, Cain, asked, “Am I my brother’s son?”
11. God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Montezuma.
12. Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brothers birthmark.
13. Jacob was a patriarch, who brought up his 12 sons to be patriarchs, but they did not take to it.
14. One of Jacob’s sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.
15. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients.
16. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments.
17. He died before he ever reached Canada.
18. David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar.
19. He fought with the Finkelsteins, a race of people who lived in Biblical times.
20. Solomon, one of David’s sons, had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.
21. Later came Job, who had one trouble after another.
22. Eventually, he lost all his cattle and all his children and had to live alone with his wife in the desert.
23. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have history.
24. The Greeks also had myths.
25. A myth is a female moth.
26. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the river Stynx until he became intollerable.
27. Achilles appears in the “Iliad,” by Homer.
28. Homer also wrote the “Oddity,” in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey.
29. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
30. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice.
31. They killed him.
32. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.
33. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
34. In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
35. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath.
36. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Geeks.
37. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
38. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul.
39. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king.
40. Dying, he gasped out: “Tee hee, Brutus.”
41. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
42. Rome came to have too many luxuries and baths.
43. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlics in their hair.
44. They took two baths in two days , and that’s the cause of the fall of Rome.
45. Rome was invaded by ballbearings, and is full of fallen arches today.
46. Then came the Middle ages, when everyone was middle age.
47. King Alfred conquered the Dames.
48. King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery with brave knights on prancing horses and beautiful women.
49. King Harold mustarded his troops before the battle of Hastings.
50. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw.
51. And victims of the blue-bonnet plague grew boobs on their necks.
52. Finally, Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense.
53. In midevil times most people were alliterate.
54. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.
55. During this time people put on morality plays about ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other mythical creatures.
56. Another story was about William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son’s head.
57. The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being.
58. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences.
59. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull.
60. It was the painter Dontello’s interest in the female nude that made him the father of the Renaissance.
61. The government of England was a limited mockery.
62. From the womb of Henry VIII Protestantism was born.
63. He found walking difficult because he had an abbess on his knee.
64. Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.”
65. As a queen she was a success.
66. When Elizabeth exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted “hurrah.”
67. Then her Navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo.
68. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries.
69. Gutenberg invented removeable type and the Bible.
70. Another important invention was the circulation of blood.
71.Sir Walter Raleigh is a historic figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking.
72 .And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.
73. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare.
74. Shakespeare was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday.
75. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays.
76. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.
77. In one of Shakespeare’s famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy.
78. His mind is filled with the filth of incestuous sheets which he pours over every time he sees his mother.
79. In another play, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood.
80. The clown in “As You Like It” is named Touchdown, and Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet.
81. Romeo’s last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
82. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes.
83. He wrote “Donkey Hote.”
84. The next great author was John Milton.
85. Milton wrote “Paradise Lost.”
86. Then his wife died and he wrote “Paradise Regained.”
88. During the Renaissance America began.
89. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic.
90. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Sante Fe.
91. Later the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim’s Progress.
92. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers.
93. Many people died and many babies were born.
94. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.
95. One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea.
96. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps.
97. During the War, the Red Coats and Paul Revere was throwing balls over stone walls.
98. The dogs were barking and the peacocks crowing.
99. Finally, the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis.
100. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress.
101. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence.
102. Franklin invented electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, “ a horse divided against itself cannot stand.”
103. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
104. George Washington married Martha Curtis and in due time became the Father of Our Country.
105. His farewell address was Mount Vernon.
106. Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility.
107. Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.
108. Abraham Lincoln became America’s greatest Precedent.
109. Lincoln’s mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands.
110. Lincoln said, “In onion there is strength.”
112.Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope.
113. He also freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation.
114. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show.
115. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor.
116. This ruined Booth’s career.
117. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time.
118. Voltair invented electricity and also wrote a book called “Candy.”
119. Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton.
120. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn, when the apples are falling off the trees.
121. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children.
122. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic.
123. Bach died from 1750 to the present.
124. Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel.
125. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English.
126. He was very large.
127. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf.
128. He was so deaf he wrote loud music.
129. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him.
130. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
131. France was in a very serious state.
132. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon.
133. During the Napoleonic Wars, the crowned heads of Europe were trembling in their shoes.
134. Then the Spanish gorillas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon’s flanks.
135. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn’t have any children.
136. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.
137. Queen Victoria was the longest queen.
138. She sat on a thorn for 63 years.
139. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue.
140. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.
141. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions.
142. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine.
143. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up.
144. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men.
145. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis.
146. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the “Organ of the Species.”
147. Madman Curie discovered radio.
148. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.
149. The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.
150. The 19th century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions.
151. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine.
152. The invention of the steamboat by Robert Fulton caused a network of rivers to spring up.
153. Samuel Morse invented a code of telepathy.
154. Eli Whitney invented the spinning gin.
155. Thomas Edison invented the pornograph and the indecent lamp.
156. The First World War was caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist.
157. The First World War, cause by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist.
158. During the early part of World War I President Woodrow Wilson urged the people to stay in neutral.
159. Then he had many foreign affairs, and America entered the War.
160. The unfortunate soldiers spent day after day up to their wastes in filth.
161. It ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.
162. World War I made the people so sad that it brought on the Great Depression.
163. Then the New Deal tried to make sure that the stock market will never happen again.
164. Charles Limburger was the first man to ever cross the Atlantic alone.
165. He wanted to go by regular airlines, but he couldn’t afford to buy a ticket.
166. When he got to Paris, all the French people shouted, “Bonzai!”
167. World War II happened when Adolph Hitler and the Knotsies tried to conquer Europe.
168. Hitler always liked to call himself Der Furor, but his real name was Messer Smith.
169. Franklin Roosevelt won a landslide and went over there and put a stop to Hitler, who committed suicide in his bunk.
170. World War II ended on VD Day.
171. Martin Luther had a dream.
172. He went to Washington and recited his Sermon on the Monument.
173.Later, he nailed 96 Protestants in the Watergate Scandal.

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