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In 373, Athanasius of Alexandria met the author of his favorite book. He is thought to be the first bishop to determine the list of books that would eventually become the canonical New Testament, leaving out the Gospel of Judas, which they never finished editing (for plot inconsistencies), and the lesser known Gospel of St. Trinians.
In 1519, Leonardo da Vinci stopped writing, drawing, painting, sculpting, inventing, observing, experimenting and philosophising. The world’s most famous lefty and arguably the most successful unpublished science fiction writer, Leonardo left behind only 15 paintings but 13,000 pages of notes, drawings, a really excellent recipe for pesto, and a sketch for a distributed network of information retrieval devices he labelled “la Internetta”. There are university alumni who collectively have less talent. Until all human knowledge is reset to zero, no-one will ever be this good again.
And three dreadful writers who won’t be missed:
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My parents currently live just outside of Appleton, Wisconsin, Joe McCarthy’s home town, and I moved the hell out two decades ago after discovering that the city still celebrates its most famous son. Every year on this date, the local dittoheads gather together at Joe’s gravesite to reminisce about the good old days, culminating with a little girl putting a lone rose on Joe’s grave. (Evidence that evolution does work, regardless of the efforts of Appleton’s business and political elite to prevent it from happening on their watch, comes when the Birchers go home…and every punk, hippie, Oneida Indian, and general non-Kallikak in town circles the grave and adds their own little contribution. In another 70 million years, alien palaeontologists are going to find Joe perfectly preserved in a crystal of pure uric acid.)
He reported died? Buh?
Um, yeah. That should be “reportedly died”. My proofreader injured his coccyx last night, which quite literally hurts like buggery. Apparently, because it happened to my proofreader.
I thought Al Gore invented the Internet?
Al Gore said he “took the lead in creating the Internet”. He acknowledged his debt to Leonardo for the original design. If you watch An Inconvenient Truth closely, whenever Gore mentions technological progress he adopts the pose of the Vitruvian Man.
Lol… Hoover… just makes me laugh.