http://www.pappaspost.com/the-classical-education-of-the-founding-fathers-was-greek-almost-the-official-language-of-the-united-states/

"Was Greek almost the language of the new United States?
It is still on record that a legislator seriously proposed that the young republic should complete its independence by adopting a different language from that of the mother country, [like] ‘the Greek for instance.’ But this proposition was summarily extinguished by a suggestion of a fellow representative (Roger Sherman of Connecticut, delegate to the Continental Congress and a member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence) that ‘it would be more convenient for us to keep the language as it was, and make the English speak Greek.”

Thanks Peter...very interesting....

Meanwhile on ESPN this afternoon...an American institution!

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12 Bottle rockets. Numerous firecrackers. An incendiary device. Two really smelly shoes that my wife wants GONE!

I originally envisioned strapping the bottlerockets to a shoe like space shuttle booster rockets, however, I don't think I will have enough lifting power. I realize my arsenal is limited, but it's all I've got.

Please discuss.


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To our American Brothers & Sisters - Happy Independence Day

Cheers
JB

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'Merica
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! (Gasp!) BWAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on right now on ESPN....100th anniversary....Coney Island Brooklyn New York, baby!

It's like a Mad Max sequel! :)

I love it!

Unfortunately at 3:30 on Independents Day afternoon you probably don't have the sobriety to build a propane cannon and launch the whole shebang on a suborbital trajectory that would send an astoundingly beautiful arc of sparkling, exploding, flaming, stinking pyrotechnics streaking across the sky.
Or maybe you do.
Post pics.

I look forward to this every year. NPR newsreaders reading the Declaration of Independence.


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