This was sent to me by a friend I trust so I thought I would share this, although I have not checked it for absolute accuracy: Subject: History lesson Look what happens when a President gets elected in a year with a "0" at the end (also known as the Curse of Tecumseh): 1840: William Henry Harrison (died in office) 1860: Abraham Lincoln (assassinated) 1880: James A. Garfield (assassinated) 1900: William McKinley (assassinated) 1920: Warren G. Harding (died in office) 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt (died in office) 1960: John F. Kennedy (assassinated) 1980: Ronald Reagan (survived assassination attempt) 2000: George W. Bush (okay, so far, so good) And to think that we had two guys fighting it out in the courts to be the one elected in 2000. You might also be interested in this. Have a history teacher explain this if they can. Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both Presidents were shot in the head. Now it gets really weird. Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln. Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are composed of fifteen letters. Now hang on to your seat. Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford." Kennedy was shot in a car called " Lincoln" made by "Ford." Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials. And here's the "kicker": A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland. A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe. Creepy, huh?
Mike Weir - Masters champion - Born May 12, 1970 Jim Furyk - U.S. Open champion - Born May 12, 1970 Ben Curtis - British Open Champion - The caddie he used usually caddies for a golfer who was born on May 12, 1970
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm this breaks down the lincoln/kennedy coincidences or maybe lack thereof.
I've always thought about the curse the same way you do thumbs, but I didn't know about all those coincidences, that's pretty ironic. I like the new addition to your signature haha, clever...you know the first part is perfect.
Regarding the first line of the sig: the love of my life forced me to change the undying to unabashed because, during the debate over the new "dripping blood" logo, she pointed out that "undying" was too close to the "undead" (Dracula) so I switched to "unabashed." As far as the "Bare" Bryant sig, it got me banned from the Laker board. However, if you read it, it asks a fair question. "Will Bare Bryant be exonerated (proven innocent) or further exposed (he admitted to his infidelity -- hence the Bare -- further exposed --moniker).
Snopes doesn't make any significant points. They keep stating the odds for each individual event are actually quite small and not suprising. And they are. But what they can't escape is the fact that for all of these things to happen to both men the odds are ridiculous. Snopes takes an intelligent look at things. But sometimes I think they forget that some things are just fact, they happened, and you can't discount that it did. It's like saying the odds for the Bucs to win the first game is 2 to 1 and the odds for every other game were 2-1 also. So it's really not suprising they won each game and won the superbowl against the Raiders. That's something snopes would say..... But yes it is. Because the odds for the bucs to win the superbowl started out at 30-1. And the odds that they played the raiders was 300-1. So you can't just break things down like they did.
It's the Matrix. It is controlling our lives. But even computers are lazy to come up with new scripts everytime. So Matrix reuses the scripts for our lives, every hundred years. Matrix == God
But a lot of those things aren't fact, or are so inconsequential that they can't be termed important. It's a cute little list, comprised, I would think, to make the little joke at the end about Marilyn Monroe - but it's not really that coincidental.
It is also supposed to read IN Marilyn Monroe, not WITH her. You went to the trouble of giving us the whole setup, and you killed the punchline.
I didn't rewrite it, I just re-posted it. However, I didn't notice that. "In" would have made it better.
