Re: hum....


Yeah, I always thought it was silly to make a holiday for the guy whose
people introduced syphillis, smallpox & measles to the New World. What's
next, Typhoid Mary Day?? Please.


 On 10/10/05, Christopher P. Lindsey <lindsey@mallorn.com> wrote:
>
> > what holiday? just got home from work.
>
> Columbus Day, celebrating a guy who got lost and made the Americas
> available for plunder and genocide.
>
> I wish they had a Magellan day to celebrate a guy who *almost*
> circumnavigated the globe but got eaten by headhunters instead. At
> least there the natives won. :)
>
> Chris
>
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