Christmas Crackers 11: Bloopers from Students’ Essays
God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brother’s 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.
Lot’s wife was a pillar of salt during the day but a ball of fire during the night.
Moses led the people to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread which is bread without any ingredients.
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 300 wives and 700 porcupines.
When Mary heard she was the mother of Jesus she sang the Magna Carta.
The epistels were the wives of the apostles one of whom was St Matthew who was also a taximan.
The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns – corinthian, ironic, and dorc – and built the Apocolypse. They 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 intolerable. 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.
Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.
In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath.
