If someone asked you to take a road trip across the country, you might reply in one of two ways. "Sure, I'll go buy some beef jerky" or "Sorry, mullet's not grown in fully yet." Not so for one Meriweather Lewis in 1803.
According to this timeline of the great Lewis & Clark expedition across the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis, whose first name meant "get ass kicked in school," sent this reply to William Clark, who'd asked for his hand in exploration: "My friend I assure you no man lives with whome I would perfur to undertake Such a Trip &c as your self."
Oh, how sweet. Is that a musket in your pants or are you just happy to spend two years with a guy who, in 1799, had a "manservant" handed down to him by his late father.
These guys made Ernie and Bert look like poker buddies.
Other Web Finds:
• Weird Al Yankovic
Tour Dates — Look out Toledo, Ohio! Weird Al is coming to the Toledo Zoo Amphitheater on June 28. Think I'm kidding?
• Newsweek's The 100 Best High Schools in America — Over a quarter of them are in the New York metropolitan area; a ton in Westchester County. Mine, Pelham (N.Y.), came in at 186 on this complete list of over 800 ranked schools.
• Forty Mistakes Men Have While Having Sex With Women — Mistake No. 1: letting her stay long enough for sobriety to rear its ugly head.
• Sexy Celebrities Without Makeup — I can't even tell if that's Pam Anderson or David Lee Roth.
Kudos for the sex tip article! :)
Posted by gnome-girl at June 11, 2003 1:21 AM