Okay people, history-fail story-time…

cindehella:

artyowl01:

So back in the 1780′s when our country was still figuring crap out and ol’ George Washington was just elected president, G.W. decided to send a letter to Congress along the lines of ‘Looking forward to working with you all, this will be exciting!” Congress, not wanting to slight the president and also trying to express their own enthusiasm, sent back a letter along the lines of “Glad you’re excited, we are also looking forward to working with you!”

Then George sends another letter back saying something like “Cool cool bros, glad you’re just as excited as I am,” and Congress, again not wanting to be awkward or just ignore the PRESIDENT, sent back ANOTHER letter saying some dumb crap that was probably along the lines of “Glad you’re excited that we’re excited that you’re excited.”

Democracy at its finest.

And while this in itself is funny, that is not even the best part.

George Washington, while being powerful, was not extremely eloquent, and at this point was also aging, busy, and overall very stressed about his new position (which he did not want in the first place).  So he asked his old friend James Madison, who had a much better way with words, to write the first note to Congress.  Good old James Madison, wanting to oblige his friend, did just that and composed the note to Congress.  Now, J-Mads was himself a member of Congress, so when the note arrived, he was in session to hear “Washington’s” letter read.

Congress got nervous and worried about who could possibly compose a formal and acceptable letter back to Washington.  Who better than his old friend, James Madison?  So Jimmy, being obliging, wrote the response.  When Washington received the reply, he once again asked his friend to write the response.  

And who did Congress choose to write their final letter? That’s right….none other than Jimmy-James-Madison himself.

So James Madison, future 4th president of the United States, wrote himself 4 letters under the guise of George Washington and the first Congress of the U.S.  And he was too embarrassed to admit it.

catfish of the millenium

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fyvaljean:

Jean Valjean by javilingt

jhaernyl:

abagginsandatook:

I love how watching Uncle Denis Lawson in Star Wars (the Original Trilogy)

inspired his nephews so much that

Colin McGregor became a fighter pilot

and Ewan McGregor became an actor

X

Ooooh, so it’s a family thing!

hanleia-solos:

Star Wars + Carrie Fisher tweets, Part II

gothvelma:

forcedintostarwars:

irhinoceri:

forcedintostarwars:

Remember when Anakin cut his son’s hand off and then immediately asked him if they could be pals as if he hadn’t just cut his son’s hand off?

Anakin’s like, “I lost four limbs… I’m not sure why he’s so upset?”

“Son, back in my day you had to crawl uphill out of a volcano when you lost a limb, you kids have it so easy.”

“goddamn entitled space millennials. why are you crying, was that your selfie hand, wuss?”

pilferingapples:

ramnieto13:

So this is my first on colored pencils and I seriously don’t know how I was able to do this using Faber Castell

WOAH this looks fantastic! Her expression is killer and your shading is excellent!

Les Amis de l’ABC as photos of animals I found on my computer

pilferingapples:

desmoulinx:

Enjolras

Combeferre

Jehan

Feuilly (the small and yellow one) & Bahorel (the big one)

Courfeyrac

Grantaire

Joly 

Bossuet

@thecoffeetragedy