The History Channel

[Greg]

Golly, it certainly sounds like it! The strength and the weakness of maintaining an oral tradition known only to a privileged few is that it will change from one generation to the next. We can only guess what the real history is, unless some genius in genetics figures out how to trace all back to the First Egg.


In other news on the History Channel: They did a biography of Andrew Jackson last night, but they blew it at the end and fell back on their old standard of character assassination.

[Miros1]

The Washington gossips hounded his wife to death, so why should present day media be any nicer?

[shorty943]

Originally Posted by Greg

Golly, it certainly sounds like it! The strength and the weakness of maintaining an oral tradition known only to a privileged few is that it will change from one generation to the next. We can only guess what the real history is, unless some genius in genetics figures out how to trace all back to the First Egg.


In other news on the History Channel: They did a biography of Andrew Jackson last night, but they blew it at the end and fell back on their old standard of character assassination.

Well, it wasn't a privileged few in the "modern" sense.

More like, this mob is the medicines mob, this other mob is the magicmen mob.
Then there are the traders, and the tool smiths.

Just like today with trades and professional side by side in the one common area.


( You are an initiate aren't you? )
(With the left handed screw driver set and all? Just like mine? )

Not really any different than today. Just the tech has come along a bit in the last couple of hundred years is all. Back then, you and I would have been doing a harder way, but we still would've been doing the same sort of things.

Putting together some kind of machine, to make something easier to do.






This History Channel, sounds a bit sort of, less than even handed in their presentation.
Maybe they have an "Emo" problem.
Factuality makes them feel bad about what happened, so they "reinterpret" it in the way they would have preferred it to have been.

[Greg]

Oh, I get it! It's like the secrets of trade unions.


I suspect that the people at the History Channel just like to wallow in sleaze, even if they have to make up the sleaze themselves. Maybe it's training ground for CNN.

Hey, I have a left-handed screwdriver! I've never had a chance to test it, though, because I've never run across a left-handed screw. This might be related to coriolis forces.

[Miros1]

Don't forget the left handed monkey wrench!

[shorty943]

Originally Posted by Greg

Oh, I get it! It's like the secrets of trade unions.

Hey, I have a left-handed screwdriver! I've never had a chance to test it, though, because I've never run across a left-handed screw. This might be related to coriolis forces.

I'll bet it only works left handed in the northern hemisphere, just like water down the plug hole.

Never had to play with combustible gases? Welding gear, BBQ's, Propane bottles, all left hand thread.

Never owned a Chrysler? Left hand thread on the left side wheel nuts.
International Harvester and Dodge trucks the same.

Any bottle screw adjuster has a left and right handed pair of threads.

And so do some primers in exploding things. Like my sister, she is left handed and explosive.

[Greg]

I'll have to remember that left-handed compliment!