An Uncoventional Approach to Teaching History

[nekosensei]

I meant to post this story last week, but I forgot. My brother-in-law is very silly. During the Saint Patrick's Day dinner last weekend, my parents had the History Channel on, and they were airing a show about how extra-terrestrials might have influenced human architecture and civilization. Some of the "experts" they interviewed for the show were real loons. Anyhow, my brother-in-law told my two-year old niece that George Washington wore so much make up to hide his green skin. He also said that Alexander Hamilton got into a duel and had one of his antennas shot off. My mom told him to stop because they're going to get concerned phone calls from said niece's teachers once she does go to school. I'm thinking it won't be a problem though because the teachers will know that her father is a clown.

Now, it's story time. Let's say that, in some alternate universe, aliens did influence human history. What wacky scenarios can you come up with? I'm going to say that the Mayan civilization disappeared because of a zombie outbreak. It was caused by a virus that aliens inadvertently spread to humans when they visited our planet for the first time. Also, Einstein was was sent to Earth to help advance human civilization with his theories on mass energy equivalence and relativity. He has a third eye hidden on the back of his head under all that hair. Charles Darwin was a Cthulu-like alien. His big beard really wasn't a beard, but a hologram. They were really tentacles. And, of course I had to take this last shot. Sarah Palin isn't human: she's an evil Cylon. Her next mission is to take out Tina Fey, gosh darn it, because she cruelly mocked her during the American elections. There's also another model of her in Joe the Plumber's head. She told him what to say during his visit to Israel. To this day, she is still in his mind having a torrid love affair with him all while continuing to manipulate him for her own ends.

Comments

[bibliofilen.livejournal.com]

No I think it must be the other way around. People are so messed up because the aliens constantly take out the sane scientists, politicians, people in general and/or put incompetent ones in their place. They don't want any competition out there and in their opinion our inability to work past their *pranks* clearly shows that we were an inferior species to begin with and thus they were justified in their interference.

If we are lucky they may take enough of us as pets once our planet burns that humanity may survive. They think we are fugly - like those naked cats.