Thursday, March 6, 2008

The portrait of a president

At school we recently spent some time learning about U.S. Presidents. To cap off the study each student made a torn art picture of a selected Commander in Chief. So basically they had different colored construction paper, a bottle of glue, and their hands to rip the pieces of paper. My favorite turned out to be George W. Bush. The eyebrows are awesome.


One of the most exciting things about this activity is that I learned a lot of new things about the presidents which I'd like to share with you. First of all, many people don't realize that Thomas Jefferson was nothing more than a golden-haired girl with a nose shaped like buttocks.


Abraham Lincoln came from such humble beginnings that he couldn't afford decent dental care and lost all but ten teeth by the age of 23.


We all know that Ronald Reagan was a popular movie actor at one time. Yet what you may not know is that his profile was actually the inspiration for the mask in the horror movie Scream. Another shocking fact about Reagan is that throughout his presidency he often wore a toupee crafted from a thin slice of meatloaf.


William Howard Taft was so obese at 335 pounds that it prevented him from doing normal activities. He couldn't even get off the couch to get a tissue, thereby letting his yellow snot continually stream down his face.


A little known fact about Dwight D. Eisenhower is that he lost a huge chunk of his face after being mauled by a bengal tiger.

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