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JoelBrigham.com - Where Curiosity Meets Comedy: July 2009
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Friday, July 31, 2009. Joel and Amy Across America, Part 5. Old North Church –. The tallest and oldest church in Boston is Christ Church, known by just about everybody in Boston as Old North, and it’s because of its towering steeple that it was chosen to hang the lanterns for Paul Revere and William Dawes so they could alert the arrival of British troops. Click HERE for More Pictures! That is, until I found out you could go up the monument. Thursday, July 30, 2009. Joel and Amy Across America, Part 4.
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JoelBrigham.com - Where Curiosity Meets Comedy: May 2009
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Friday, May 29, 2009. Student Quotes, Spring '09. Ladies and gentlemen, your favorite and mine, the student quotes. As always, these are real things real students said. I love them, but come on. these are hilarious! Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Alexis: “Are there exercises to make you get taller? Janson: “Hey Brigs, do you know how much snow we’re supposed to get tomorrow? Me: “No I do not.”. Janson: “Is it supposed to be a lot? Kobe Bryant – MVP trophy. Tom Hanks – Golden Globe. Nathan: “He th...
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JoelBrigham.com - Where Curiosity Meets Comedy: Vintage Student Quotes, 2004
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Thursday, September 10, 2009. Vintage Student Quotes, 2004. I had a former student ask what happened to the quotes from his freshmen year of high school, which was something like five years ago, so I dug them up and here they are. These are my first ever students, who will always hold a special place in my heart. But man, did they say some stupid stuff. So, without further ado, student quotes from Fall 2004 through Spring 2005. Me: “So you had an imaginary friend named Theodore the 3rd? In our discussion...
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JoelBrigham.com - Where Curiosity Meets Comedy: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009. DYK - Who Were Wendy and McDonald? The origins of some fast food restaurant names are pretty obvious—Burger King wants to be known as the king of burgers. Subway sells submarine sandwiches. Pizza Hut is a hut from which one can acquire pizza. These all are common sense. But some restaurants appear to have more story behind them than we ever take time to realize. That is why I’m here, helping you Did-You-Know your way through Tuesday. McDonald’s –. Wendy’s –. 8211; Wilbur Hardee o...
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JoelBrigham.com - Where Curiosity Meets Comedy: September 2009
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Thursday, September 10, 2009. Vintage Student Quotes, 2004. I had a former student ask what happened to the quotes from his freshmen year of high school, which was something like five years ago, so I dug them up and here they are. These are my first ever students, who will always hold a special place in my heart. But man, did they say some stupid stuff. So, without further ado, student quotes from Fall 2004 through Spring 2005. Me: “So you had an imaginary friend named Theodore the 3rd? In our discussion...
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JoelBrigham.com - Where Curiosity Meets Comedy: June 2009
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009. DYK - Invisible Light. Here’s something to blow your mind—light is invisible. I’m telling you, I heard this and it took me like fifteen minutes to wrap my mind around it. See, when we’re “seeing” light, we’re not seeing the light itself. What we’re seeing is the matter that light bounces off of. If light wasn’t invisible, we couldn’t see anything anywhere, because the light would just be this crazy shiny mist between our eyeballs and everything else in the world. Since turning 21 ...
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JoelBrigham.com - Where Curiosity Meets Comedy: Amy & Joel Across America, Part 9
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Thursday, August 06, 2009. Amy and Joel Across America, Part 9. William Bradford’s Grave –. Bradford’s “On Plymouth Plantation” is probably the most famous and most detailed primary source we have of the Pilgrims’ early experience in the New World, but we don’t credit this guy just for being an interesting author. He was also the governor that held the new settlement together through some ridiculously tough times. Maybe, but probably not. But possibly. Most likely. Or not…. The Adams Family Tomb. On the ...
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JoelBrigham.com - Where Curiosity Meets Comedy: August 2009
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Friday, August 07, 2009. Joel and Amy Across America, The End. Walden Pond –. On the walk back we had an issue with a broken walkway that resulted in relatively wet feet for us travelers, and we bumped into an overweight skinny-dipping soprano loudly humming some medieval melody. We were sort of in the area furthest from the entrance, but yeesh! Those were breasts I could’ve died perfectly happy having never seen. Click HERE for More Concord Pictures! The Five Victims of the Boston Massacre. I wouldnR...
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JoelBrigham.com - Where Curiosity Meets Comedy: Joel & Amy Across America, Part 8
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009. Joel and Amy Across America, Part 8. National Monument to the Forefathers. 8211; Our last full day in Massachusetts took us an hour down the coast to Plymouth, which is where the Pilgrims eventually settled after coming over to America on the Mayflower. It’s one of the most fabled stories in our history, and that’s why someone built an 81-foot monument in the middle of a huge grass park hidden towards the back of modern-day Plymouth. Growing up both Amy and I were taught that ...
