This Week's Question/Project
This is the second in the continuing series in which I ask a question of the contributors and seek their individual answers in post form over the course of a week, and the first in a continuing series of shamelessly ripping off other humorous enterprises.
This week's project runs from the same vein which has blessed the internet with a seemingly inexhaustible store of "trivia" about history's greatest man, Chuck Norris. So, after the fashion of Conan O'Brien's Chuck Norris fascination, the Chuck Norris fact generator (story here) and other things, like the recurring Bill Brasky sketches on SNL, I ask your life's advisors this:
What are the three most impressive facts you are aware of regarding America's 7th president, Old Hickory, Andrew Jackson?
To get you started, here is one almost certainly true fact about Andrew Jackson, and one whose source may or may not be the beer I'm presently sipping from:
It is true that Andrew Jackson once avoided assassination on the steps of the Capitol, not with the help of the Secret Service (which didn't yet exist) but with the help of his Secret Intolerance for People Trying to Kill Him. Pres. Jackson not only avoided his would-be killer, but he beat the living hell out of the guy with his cane. Right there on his way to make a bill into a law or some such thing.
Also, during the Revolutionary War, Andrew Jackson wanted American Freedom so desperately that, as an 11-year-old boy, he negotiated the treaty with France to help fight the English...
...and signed it in blood.
NB: My current favorite Norris fact: In a fight between Batman and Darth Vader, the winner would be Chuck Norris.
This week's project runs from the same vein which has blessed the internet with a seemingly inexhaustible store of "trivia" about history's greatest man, Chuck Norris. So, after the fashion of Conan O'Brien's Chuck Norris fascination, the Chuck Norris fact generator (story here) and other things, like the recurring Bill Brasky sketches on SNL, I ask your life's advisors this:
What are the three most impressive facts you are aware of regarding America's 7th president, Old Hickory, Andrew Jackson?
To get you started, here is one almost certainly true fact about Andrew Jackson, and one whose source may or may not be the beer I'm presently sipping from:
It is true that Andrew Jackson once avoided assassination on the steps of the Capitol, not with the help of the Secret Service (which didn't yet exist) but with the help of his Secret Intolerance for People Trying to Kill Him. Pres. Jackson not only avoided his would-be killer, but he beat the living hell out of the guy with his cane. Right there on his way to make a bill into a law or some such thing.
Also, during the Revolutionary War, Andrew Jackson wanted American Freedom so desperately that, as an 11-year-old boy, he negotiated the treaty with France to help fight the English...
...and signed it in blood.
NB: My current favorite Norris fact: In a fight between Batman and Darth Vader, the winner would be Chuck Norris.
posted by JLD at 19:03
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