By crazymentalblond - 17/11/2016 11:47 - United States - Havertown
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crazymentalblond
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OP here, when the second classmate made his announcement, everyone went silent (I swear crickets were chirping). He went into a ramble that sounded oddly like "the statue we got it in 1962." It took us all a few minutes to stifle our laughter to correct him. After that, yes someone did inform the first guy he was indeed wrong and told him several reasons why. At least it was a good way to kick off a what was slowly becoming a boring day. And yes I focused on the second guy a little bit more because I myself suck at history so I couldn't judge the first classmate too much. Especially when my previous schools skimmed over a lot of American history. If it wasn't for the books my mom showed me that she had on American history I wouldn't know much other than the basics. The education system I'm in really sucks.
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spawnaverage
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(USA, Pennsylvania) why does this not surprise me
Ok people... the Statue of Liberty was sculpted based on the painting of the Mona Lisa, so he was right.
And designed by the same (French) guy who did the Eiffel Tower.
It was actually designed by Frédéric Bartholdi, but Gustave Eiffel constructed it :)
cootiequeen4444
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where the hell did you read that? no where did it say - for a fact - that the statue of liberty was modeled after the mona lisa. in fact, I don't think that fact is even known. When I did a Google search of the statue of liberty and just the statue of liberty, I didn't even see the mona Lisa mentioned anywhere. when I Googled statue of liberty mona lisa then I got maybe two things maybe suggesting they were related (one seemed like it was joking though). mostly I got images to photoshopped memes. Which makes me think that perhaps OP'S classmate was joking and was referencing the memes. I mean... there is seriously a fuckton of statue of liberties with mona Lisa's gave photoshopped on. I honestly feel a lot of these FMLS (and nearly FMLs) where OP is bitching about another's stupidity is OP take another person too seriously or out of context. I mean people say "they were serious" when telling stories of (potential) morons ALL the bloody time without truly knowing if the person was serious or not. It makes for a better story if the person was serious y'know. However, I was not there so they very well could have been serious. I just wouldn't be surprised if they weren't. Just putting the possibility out there... Plus, as others notes, the more discerning comment is how France never done anything for the US... So the FML is kinda there regardless... just.... wrong.
Lady Liberty's face was based upon the designer's mother's face. Whether it was Bartholdi or Eiffel's mother I am uncertain, though I believe it was Eiffel's mother.
crazymentalblond
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To 54, he was being serious. He stated that he read an article online that said the statue was portrayed after the Mona Lisa. Of course that came up after our first classmate was corrected, because our second classmate was busy trying to find the article again on his phone.
Not a lot, just that they're our oldest ally, gave us the Statue of Liberty, and supported us in our revolution.
Maybe he just had a brain fart. I have those all the time.
Unlucky1232
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What? the French are awesome! they've done quite a lot for america from helping us gain independence to the Louisiana purchase to giving us lady liberty
Someone once asked me if Oxfam helped start World War 3! It makes you wonder how these people even make it through the day.
ViviMage
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The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
crazymentalblond
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I'm still trying to figure out where people are getting this Mona Lisa stuff from!
Uhm.. You know that the Statue of Liberty is just a giant Mona Lisa, don't you? That's ******* fact.
Those damned Frenchies robbed us Brits of our glorious American colonies. There's France's contribution to your history. We sure showed you guys though when we took Canada and beat you in the War of 1812.
crazymentalblond
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Y'all are just upset about us wasting all that tea we dumped. At least you guys seen to have a bed education system than the common core crap we have.
crazymentalblond
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seem* better* God I hate my phone's auto-correct...
That was a disgusting way to behave...
We sure know how to throw a tea party, amirite? Lol.
crazymentalblond
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Just don't let the Mad Hatter know about the tea party. He'd be pissed.
He meant the statue of liberty. He was close.. it was the Canadians.
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They only gave the US their liberty, nothing much really
The French also sent troops to help us in our campaign for independence during the revolutionary war. They have done quite a bit for us.