“Kids Write the Darndest Things”*

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Lynda

*The following excerts are from Richard Lederer’s book, More Anguished English, Dell Publishing, 1997, pages 3 thru 10.

Early Egyptian women often wore a garment called a calasiris. It was a sheer dress which started beneath the breasts which hung to the floor.

Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak.

Pompeii was destroyed by an overflow of saliva from the Vatican.

The two kinds of books printed are friction and non-friction.

Chaucer was the father of English Pottery.

Rambo was a French poet.

Hamlet had an edible complex.

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