BS: Not true? I don't care!

Subject: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: 3refs
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:20 AM

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog.. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.

There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved
the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and
introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life"

"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.

"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.

"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.

"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like
his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of." And that he did.

Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin.

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name?

Sir Winston Churchill!

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.




Work like you don't need the money.

Love like you've never been hurt.

Dance like nobody's watching.

Sing like nobody's listening.

Live like it's Heaven on Earth.



It's National Friendship Week. Send this to everyone you consider A

FRIEND.

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:29 AM

Hey refferator. We're looking for you in the hockey thread. :~!

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Live each day so that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan says, "Oh NO! S/he's AWAKE!"

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:31 AM

Works for me, refz...

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:32 AM

I know you don't care Ref and its a wonderful story.......complete bullshit of course, but it has charm.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: 3refs
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:11 AM

I kind of came across this by accident, because of the movie "National Treasure".
I was looking for who really first suggested "Daylight Saving Time" and I thought Sir Sanford Fleming did(it was Ben Franklin). No, he(Fleming)invented "Standard Time"

More waisted brain cells, but now their getting down to an amount I can manage somewhat better!

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 11:55 AM

There is a saying which sums up the title of this thread - se non è vero, è ben trovato...

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: Bert
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 12:54 PM

Live each day so that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan says, "Oh NO! S/he's AWAKE!"

I love it WYSYLUV. Made my day.

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 01:10 PM

The story makes a point, and probably there ARE similar ones which are true... unfortunately, Snopes says this one isn't

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: Lox
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:25 PM

It wasn't even Fleming who was responsible for the development of penicilllin ... he just took the credit.

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: Rowan
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:05 PM

Goodonya, Lox! Someone else who remembers Florey.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 08:23 PM

But the thread title is still true!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: EBarnacle
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 04:57 PM

The validity is not in the truth of the tale, it is in the ideals it expresses.

Is that tendentious enough?

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: Lighter
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 05:13 PM

Another phrase for such stories is "pious fraud."

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: Beer
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 05:23 PM

Thanks for the story ref and the title as well. Heard this one a long time ago and it is still a good story. EBarnacle, well said.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 05:45 PM

Aaah, fakelore. Always true; seldom accurate.

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 08:17 PM

And that is the rest of the story
good day

Subject: RE: BS: Not true? I don't care!
From: Beer
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 10:09 PM

You know Donuel, I am sure that is where I first heard the story.
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