Happy President's Day to all! President's Day is such an exciting holiday. Don't you think? It's so exciting that I can't wait to go to work and hang out with all the little children that won't be at school today. I think most of us think of George Washington when we think of President's Day. Well, sometimes I think of Abe Lincoln, but usually it's George that pops into my head. That always gets me thinking about his teeth. When I was a kid, I learned that George Washington had wooden teeth, but I have since learned that that is false. The false teeth that he wore, it turns out, were made of hippopotamus tusks. I know this isn't false because I saw his false teeth in a book at the library. If you doubt this fact, you can come to the library and I will pull out the book and show you his teeth. This book will prove that the fact that his false teeth were made of hippopotamus teeth is not false. Unless the picture is false... But, I will not get into that. Anyway, we always hear that milk gives a body strong bones and teeth, so maybe if George had drank or drunk (whatever) more milk, a hippopotamus wouldn't have had to die...
2 comments:
OMG I might just have to walk into the BD library and demand that you show me that picture of hippo teeth!
So sorry to hear that our founding dude used hippo stuff for his own self-centered needs. Guess pres peeps did not really appreciate the importance of hippos---maybe not til Teddy Roosevelt came along, anyway...
Hope you have a good Pres Day. I did get one of those Vanilla Tea Lattes to celebrate the day. Also got the hair taken care of---and had to venture to mall to do so----as is so american, lots of peeps celebrating the holiday at the Mall today. Yuk. Reminded me of library on busy saturday. I had to get outta there as soon as the hair was tended to.
Now that hair is tended too I am a Bleachy Haired Honky bitch once again, however, in a very subtle, understated bleechy way.
I always believed the wooden teeth story to be true....just goes to show you what I know! Why in the world would have have to use hippo tusks? It had to be something exotic I guess. Couldn't they have just used some old cow horns or something? Poor hippo.
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