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TAKE THE CHRIS SHEIL CHALLENGE

Match wits with the hysterical historian! Can you achieve the colossal feat of committing three errors (try for more!) in eight words or less?

Posted by Tim B. on 10/28/2007 at 11:32 AM

  1. Collingwood for Premiers in 2008.

    Posted by Scott W on 2007 10 28 at 11:42 AM • permalink

  2. Nope, that doesn’t work. Damn, it’s harder then it looks.

    Posted by Scott W on 2007 10 28 at 11:43 AM • permalink

  3. Bismarck wasn’t sunk! Kriegsmarine won Narvik! Yamato rules.

    It is hard, but the foray into WW2 naval errata may have done it.

    Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 10 28 at 11:49 AM • permalink

  4. Although, that is not one sentence.

    1890: Hitler was born in Germany near Munich.

    That is fairly staid, though, apart from the cheating with the colon. I’ll have to endeavour to think of one a bit more pithy.

    Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 10 28 at 11:52 AM • permalink

  5. Bush’s unilateral war for oil and Halliburton profits

    Posted by Some0Seppo on 2007 10 28 at 11:56 AM • permalink

  6. Israel’s illegal apartheid wall does not save lives.

    Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 10 28 at 12:00 PM • permalink

  7. Howard voter Sheil always checks facts and spelling.

    Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 10 28 at 12:07 PM • permalink

  8. Dewey defeated Truman, as Gore defeated Bush, 2004.

    Not too grammatical, but three errors nevertheless.

    Posted by miriams ideas on 2007 10 28 at 12:10 PM • permalink

  9. Fisk: a great writer, journalist, and human being.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 28 at 12:15 PM • permalink

  10. “How appropriate it is to have two eminent climate change experts sharing this very important recognition.”

    —Peter Garrett

    16 words, though.

    Posted by m on 2007 10 28 at 12:20 PM • permalink

  11. Vote Rudd: A stronger, wealthier, safer, greater Australia.

    4 in eight words.

    Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 10 28 at 12:26 PM • permalink

  12. Vote Rudd: A stronger, wealthier, safer, greater Australia Indonesia.

    4 5 in eight words. :)

    Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 10 28 at 12:32 PM • permalink

  13. Global warming divides the goblins from the elites.

    Melting ice caps drown the disappearing polar bears.

    Hillary Clinton becomes president, universal health care ensues.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 10 28 at 01:03 PM • permalink

  14. Hugely O/T but funny as hell.  I went to the wikipedia page for the English football club Portsmouth FC.

    In case it gets changed, the first sentence of their page reads:

    “Portsmouth Football Club is a gay English football club based in the naval town of Portsmouth. The club motto is Hello, Sailor! The club is currently owned by the Franco-Russian arms dealer Alexandre Gaydamak.”

    Gotta love wikipedia.

    Posted by David Crawford on 2007 10 28 at 01:04 PM • permalink

  15. Mike Ditka said today on the football pre-game show, “Winston Churchill said, ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself.’” So Chris Sheil is as accomplished a historian as the old Chicago Bears coach.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 10 28 at 01:52 PM • permalink

  16. Sheil, accomplished historian and intellectual, nails it.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 10 28 at 01:56 PM • permalink

  17. Yes, but has Sheil ever won the Superbowl?

    Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 10 28 at 01:57 PM • permalink

  18. Bush stole the presidency, lied us into war.

    Okay, there’s a lot of implied misrepresentations in that.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 10 28 at 01:59 PM • permalink

  19. Yamamoto sank American carriers at Gettysburg in 1776.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 10 28 at 01:59 PM • permalink

  20. Yes, but has Sheil ever won the Superbowl?

    1962 - Sheil kicked walk-off homer for win.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 10 28 at 02:02 PM • permalink

  21. So many great entries. Simon Darkshade’s made me laugh out loud. In fact, so did Dave’s. Hell, they’re all funny.

    Handsome Kevin’s tasty earwax means landslide election victory.

    Posted by paco on 2007 10 28 at 03:30 PM • permalink

  22. O/T, but the Dutch have complained about Gitmo, so U.S. says, Ok, how about you take ‘em?.

    Posted by paco on 2007 10 28 at 03:55 PM • permalink

  23. Howard, Robin Menzies’ treasurer, introduced conscription in 1971.


    1. Howard wasn’t Menzies’ treasurer. 2. Howard didn’t introduce conscription 3. Howard wasn’t in parliament in 1969 (elected 1974). 4. Menzies wasn’t in parliament in 1969 (left 1966); 5 conscription wasn’t introduced in 1969. 6. It’s Robert Menzies

    Take that, Sheil, you amateur. Can’t take all the credit because some academic or senior columnist gave me the idea by suggesting that Howard and Menzies were contemporaries. Who was that?

     


    Can’t claim all the credit

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 10 28 at 04:41 PM • permalink

  24. Gore’s right: Kyoto worked and Monks donated.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 10 28 at 04:47 PM • permalink

  25. “Babe Ruth was a role-model for other early US feminists” - in a history student’s essay at the University of Sydney.

    Posted by Apparatchik on 2007 10 28 at 04:52 PM • permalink

  26. The explorer Gough Whitlam discovered Australia in 1975.

    Posted by mr creosote on 2007 10 28 at 04:53 PM • permalink

  27. Cris Shiel be some fine journalist, great historian…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 10 28 at 04:57 PM • permalink

  28. Chris Shill: young, intelligent, accurate, and ruggedly handsome.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 10 28 at 05:17 PM • permalink

  29. 2008: Newtown wins NFL, Howard sulks, Rudd succinct.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 10 28 at 05:19 PM • permalink

  30. Manning-Clark and Sheil. Honest and accurate historians.

    Posted by BJM on 2007 10 28 at 05:24 PM • permalink

  31. OT

    Another one of those classic climate change alarmist reports on Sunrise just now, this time focusing on the implications to our health. Within a few minutes we hear of increased rates of asthma due to a warmer/wetter world contributing to more plant growth, then increased rates of anxiety and depression from the drought. There were a few other pearls in there, but nothing you haven’t heard before.

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 10 28 at 05:37 PM • permalink

  32. “President” Bu$hitler ate a plastic turkey.

    Posted by Ricardo on 2007 10 28 at 05:56 PM • permalink

  33. Tim, there’s no way anyone can challenge this group with words & win - there is GENIUS here!

    Posted by KC on 2007 10 28 at 05:56 PM • permalink

  34. Yes, but 8 words can change the face of history.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 10 28 at 05:58 PM • permalink

  35. Kevin07: Rudd’s superior policy outguns clever, cunning Howard.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 10 28 at 06:18 PM • permalink

  36. 35, that’s 8 words.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 10 28 at 06:27 PM • permalink

  37. Global + warming +not + a crock but + real.

    Four errors in 7.

    Posted by ann j on 2007 10 28 at 06:45 PM • permalink

  38. O/T, but I thought this was too nice a thing not to pass on.

    Posted by paco on 2007 10 28 at 06:46 PM • permalink

  39. In the olden days when we used to do history in school, I once mixed up WWI and WWII in primary school. But it was more than eight words.

    I never have been good with ‘historical’ dates and stuff.

    The ‘essay’ was never kept for posterity. Thank God!

    Posted by kae on 2007 10 28 at 06:58 PM • permalink

  40. #31
    Dminor, it’s been on ABC every news bulletin! Even obesity is caused by global warmenizing climate change

    Posted by kae on 2007 10 28 at 07:11 PM • permalink

  41. Had sex with with Margo Kingston.

    Okay, it’s one error, but it’s a fucking big one.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 10 28 at 07:24 PM • permalink

  42. #41
    Infidel Tiger’s Pants on Fire. (That’s true!)

    Posted by kae on 2007 10 28 at 07:26 PM • permalink

  43. Bush planned 9-11. Quite a bit packed into 3 words, or 4 words, or 2 words and 2 numbers.

    Posted by Latino on 2007 10 28 at 07:39 PM • permalink

  44. Ted Rall: integrity, accuracy, bravery, unbiased and trustworthy.

    /I think I just tore some sort of hole in reality doing that…

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 10 28 at 07:42 PM • permalink

  45. frollick, even i could never imagine such a sentence.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 10 28 at 07:46 PM • permalink

  46. although thank GOD you didn’t add ‘talented’, because that would probably have caused the sun to supernova.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 10 28 at 07:47 PM • permalink

  47. #36, but there are three mistakes…

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 10 28 at 07:58 PM • permalink

  48. I took the bus to Canberra to have fun.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 10 28 at 08:08 PM • permalink

  49. Overlooking the tortured grammatical construction. From Sheil’s blog post #64. Quote: “loosly, so as to also encompass the predessor,” That’s 2 errors in 8 words. This guy is hot.Post 64

    Posted by Drummie on 2007 10 28 at 08:10 PM • permalink

  50. #41 IT

    You’ve bin stirrin my porrdige IT.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 10 28 at 08:16 PM • permalink

  51. 38 Paco

    Wonderful, thoughtful and heart warming gesture. I wonder how many of our own, especially the left has even thought of something such as.

    Not all Iraqi Muslims despise us…just the “Islamic” ilk. Now if they could just get that through the heads of the ‘silent and fearful’ of their kind.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 10 28 at 08:22 PM • permalink

  52. Dave S.

    Sorry, Yamamoto had nothing to do with that. It was Sitting Bull, Von Ribbentrop and Stalin.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 10 28 at 08:29 PM • permalink

  53. OT, but again I have to give points to ABC’s Chris Uhlman for giving Peter Garrett a roasting on this morning’s AM.  He repeatedly presses Garrett, almost to the point of rudeness, to explain how ratifying Kyoto means anything if China and India aren’t signed on.  There’s also this gem of an exchange:

    CHRIS UHLMANN: Now if we look at what your promises are on this, you promise a 60 per cent reduction on 2000 levels by 2050. Why do you do it on 2000 levels given the Kyoto targets are based on 1990 levels? Isn’t there a fiddle in the numbers there?

    PETER GARRETT: No, look, there’s very little difference in the numbers, Chris.

    Little difference in Australia’s emission figures between 1990 and 2000, eh?  One could draw an interesting conclusion from that.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2007 10 28 at 08:30 PM • permalink

  54. O/T
    Thank God that horrible picture of Imus is gone from the blogad. Nightmare stuff.

    Posted by kae on 2007 10 28 at 09:04 PM • permalink

  55. Cross-dressing Cuban patriot Che died for our sins.

    Posted by TimShell on 2007 10 28 at 09:32 PM • permalink

  56. climate scientist Tim Flannery’s Geothermia- paradise on Earth

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 28 at 09:47 PM • permalink

  57. #55: My personal favorite.

    Posted by paco on 2007 10 28 at 09:51 PM • permalink

  58. self made man Kevin Rudd- future Prime minister

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 28 at 09:52 PM • permalink

  59. Your ABC’s is dedicated to educate, entertain,  inform.

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 28 at 09:56 PM • permalink

  60. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

    Luke 12:48

    More than eight words, and probably outside Sheil’s purview (that means “cognizance”, Chris), but pertinent IMV, in that it boils down to:

    Accuracy.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 10 28 at 10:09 PM • permalink

  61. Fiscal conservative Julia Gillard , stands by her man

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 28 at 10:11 PM • permalink

  62. Gillard’s highly tuned voice brought tears of joy to audience.

    Posted by peter m on 2007 10 28 at 10:52 PM • permalink

  63. #62

    highly tuned voice dulcet tones

    Posted by kae on 2007 10 28 at 10:56 PM • permalink

  64. #62
    and the tears part is right.

    Posted by kae on 2007 10 28 at 10:57 PM • permalink

  65. Jose Offerman, Shortstop, ‘92 Dodgers.

    Posted by Vexorg on 2007 10 28 at 11:07 PM • permalink

  66. That one should be good for 42 errors in six words.  Top that.

    Posted by Vexorg on 2007 10 28 at 11:08 PM • permalink

  67. #66: Inspired!

    Posted by paco on 2007 10 28 at 11:28 PM • permalink

  68. 66.  Sure:

    Lancet.

    About 600,000 errors in 1 word.  Top that!

    Posted by peter m on 2007 10 29 at 12:50 AM • permalink

  69. #68
    Debate is close. You win, peter m.

    Posted by kae on 2007 10 29 at 12:52 AM • permalink

  70. #54, kae.

    Do you think Tim put him there for Halloween?

    Imus looks like (and speaks like) a corpse.  Enough to frighten small children.

    Posted by ann j on 2007 10 29 at 12:53 AM • permalink

  71. #70
    I dunno, but I wish he didn’t.
    Perhaps it was part of his funraising scheme?

    You mean it speaks?

    Posted by kae on 2007 10 29 at 12:58 AM • permalink

  72. #68

    Okee dokee

    Religion of Peace >1 billion

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 10 29 at 01:02 AM • permalink

  73. #72

    Arrrrrgh! Yojimbo!

    Aiiiiieeeeee.

    I can’t take this brinkmanship any more.

    Posted by kae on 2007 10 29 at 01:06 AM • permalink

  74. Moderates want one free democratic secular Palestine state.

    Posted by geoff on 2007 10 29 at 02:02 AM • permalink

  75. I’m claiming that’s fourteen lies errors in eight words.

    Posted by geoff on 2007 10 29 at 02:04 AM • permalink

  76. This is Tim Blare’s unknown blog, the Bleak.

    Posted by Ariun on 2007 10 29 at 02:37 AM • permalink

  77. OK…

    N(a) = 7 x 10^23.

    That’s approximately 9.7785821 x 10^23 errors right there, in one mathematical equation.

    Posted by Vexorg on 2007 10 29 at 03:20 AM • permalink

  78. Doh!  Make that 9.7785821 x 10^22.

    Posted by Vexorg on 2007 10 29 at 03:25 AM • permalink

  79. In London in 1997 I saw: “Diana: born a Princess, died a Saint.” Thast’s two lies and one blasphemy, but not a bad effort.

    Posted by McAnzac on 2007 10 29 at 03:58 AM • permalink

  80. Rudd: statesman, gentleman and gourmet

    Posted by McAnzac on 2007 10 29 at 04:01 AM • permalink

  81. Carter was the best US President in history.
    Kevni Rudd is the sexiest man alive (vomit).
    Bush fed the Navy hot plastic turkey.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 10 29 at 05:12 AM • permalink

  82. Mr Sheil displays immaturity, vulgarity, and a bit of a yellow streak. The last comment I made on his boorishness must have struck a nerve.

    This little fellow is the president of the Evatt foundation, Evatt was man I admire. I pointed out (politely but scathingly) some more of his crass actions and sophomore errors - and he had a large part of the post deleted.

    What a fragile ego the overblown legend-in-his-own-office has. he is certainly worth mockery, but nothing else. Sad, the dregs Australian academe is reduced to recruiting.

    MarkL
    canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2007 10 29 at 05:37 AM • permalink

  83. Genius Gough Whitlam’s ‘Blue Poles’ is a masterpiece

    National living treasure, the ever original Phillip Adams

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 29 at 06:00 AM • permalink

  84. Carlton are the worst team in the AFL.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 10 29 at 06:06 AM • permalink

  85. Bolt has more on Gillard Clerical Service Secret Leftist Plans for Domination.
    Looks like it was photographed rather than photocopied.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 10 29 at 06:55 AM • permalink

  86. All Seppos are innate cricket experts!

    The Yojimbo has never had a spelling malfunction.

    Both probably better than my one billion ROP’ers can’t be wrong.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 10 29 at 09:50 AM • permalink

  87. Nobel Peace Prize.

    Posted by charles austin on 2007 10 29 at 09:07 PM • permalink

  88. Voltaire nailed this a long time ago with his commentary on the Holy Roman Empire.

    Posted by charles austin on 2007 10 29 at 09:17 PM • permalink

  89. MarkL

    Sheil is deranged. They guy is a complete moronic lunatic.

    Posted by ice on 2007 10 29 at 09:51 PM • permalink

  90. Ice, hard to argue.

    For a ‘perfessar and leedinng accademmik’, he also cannot even spell or articulate a sentence at all:

    “#  cs said:

    This far out, in oreder: (1) Howard scrapes; (2) Hung; (3) Rudd scrapes.
    Posted on 29-Oct-07 at 11:25 pm | Permalink “

    at http://clubtroppo.com.au/2007/10/29/your-
    election-predictions-tabulated/#more-4436

    More retard than leftard, perhaps?

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2007 10 30 at 03:36 AM • permalink

  91. 1976: Groucho Marx, generalissimo, liberated Paraguay again.

    5 in 7 is about the best I’ve got to.

    Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 10 30 at 05:04 AM • permalink

  92. If the limit was 10, we could include the ultimate in concluding words: “with Kriegsmarine quail-gibbons”

    Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 10 30 at 05:12 AM • permalink

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