HISTORIAN: PILGRIMS WERE A LOT LIKE NED FLANDERS
HISTORIAN: PILGRIMS WERE A LOT LIKE NED FLANDERS
DALLAS (Wireless Flash) Heres a shocking revelation: A holiday historian says the Pilgrims were an awful lot like Homer Simpsons annoyingly-cheerful next door neighbor, Ned Flanders. Kevin Orlin Johnson, author of the upcoming book Why Is This A Holiday? (Pangaeus Press), says the Pilgrims were cheerful, kind-hearted and family oriented just like Flanders. He also says the Pilgrims resembled the do-gooder cartoon character in the way they were always concerned about doing the right thing. But the first American settlers were more like Homer Simpson in one respect they looooved beer. Johnson says the average Pilgrim drank several quarts of beer a day and considered it an essential food equal to bread.
Wed 11-21-01