h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I am not a golfer.
I do not like that sport, I do not like it in a port.
I do not like golf with a sheep, I do not like golf on a hill so steep.

Someone should do an entry on black sheep or sheep, by the way. I can't find one.

I seem to recall Kennedy complaining that Ike left spike marks from his golf spikes all over the floor of the Oval Office.

And I also believe that it was Ike to had the putting/chipping green installed at the White House.

Can you tell I'm re-reading 'First off the tee' which is a history of golfing presidents...

Oh, jeez. They have a book about that?
Honestly, I think they've run out of things to write books about. When I was buying my book on Ike, I saw a book about Ohio Bicentennial Barns. I don't know why anyone would read about that. I'm not even sure what it is.

Alright, it's settled. I shall have to make a section about Golf.
Right now, I rest in an Ohio Bimillenial Home

*strolls back into the thread*

Ya know...why am I here? I know nothing about American presidents!!

Oh I remember!!!

*saves Hyp in a spectacular, daring, heroic type way before riding off with her into the sunset on a fiery charger....before returning because I can't ride horses very well and it made an about-turn*

Would you like us to educate you about American Presidents?
Well, it all started with Peyton Randolph...

AHHHHHHH!!!!

Why do people run from me?

um. I think you answered my question. I have another. I know there was a President Garfield. other than the fact he shares his name with a rather amusing cartoon cat, what's he all about then?

James A Garfield - an Ohioan. He didn't have time to do much, really, because he got shot by someone who wanted an ambassadorship or something to France. I believe he would have been the second Ohioan President to die in office (three would die, Harrison, Garfield and McKinley) and the first to be shot in office (two would be shot, Garfield and McKinley).

Personally, I prefer the cat.

Don't you find it a bit strange that so many Ohio presidents have been targets of assassins? I mean compared to the total number of presidents who have been shot at? There is a message in there somewhere.

One was killed by an anarchist, one was killed because the guy thought that Garfield turned him down for a job. I honestly doubt Garfield knew the guy's name.

So... no. I think they were both just unlucky, or at the wrong place at the wrong time.

You would say that, though, considering your Ohio mania. I think those were just excuses to take the attention away from the real reason......the shooters were tired of so many Ohio presidents.

That may be it, actually. Almost all of the Ohio Presidents were elected 'round the same time. And one New Yorker Prez around that time was named Cleveland, which is... an Ohio city of course.

Anyone feeling educated from this thread?

If they are still awake, I am sure they are gaining a wealth of knowledge. And that is, after all, what I live for - to educate and serve for the good of humanity.

I live to make my entry on my state the number one when you google Ohio

You are a Worthy Buckeye of the loyal Order of the Sons of Ohio.

Jodan - WBLOotSoO.

It is an honor to share cyberspace with you, oh Worthy one.

Didn't the Navy build one of the first air-conditioners for Garfield as he lay there dying?

And wasn't Bell called in to look for the bullet with a magnetometer (which failed because he was lying on a steel spring mattress)?


Hmm...

I don't know about the air conditioner thing, but I've heard that second one, I think.
McKinley had a bullet stuck in him and they couldn't find it so they sealed him up with it inside of him, which killed him. The irony is that McKinley was shot at the Pan-American expo, which showed off Edison's X-Ray machine, which could have found the bullet...
Ohio Presidents have such poor luck...

Why thank you, Hyp. Finally someone recognizes me with an unprouncable acronym

As I said, I live to serve.