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Bigmack

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15. Mark Twain did a similar experiment....
Wed Apr 16, 2014, 11:06 PM
Apr 2014

I think the results of yours would be the same...

"Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame, I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days.

When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh -not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court."

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***LETS PLAY A GAME, SHALL WE?*** [View all] yuiyoshida Apr 2014 OP
Rush lets out a fart CFLDem Apr 2014 #1
Interesting yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #11
what size room? warrior1 Apr 2014 #2
no...the room is small... yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #3
It's only 4 hours so that's not that long oneofthe99 Apr 2014 #4
I picked four hours as I thought with their yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #6
No no 'I don't want to change your OP 4 hours is fine oneofthe99 Apr 2014 #8
Great .. yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #9
Within an hour . . . LumosMaxima Apr 2014 #5
good creative answer! yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #7
They would sit around for four hours blaming Obama for their predicament. edbermac Apr 2014 #10
very good~ yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #12
After 4 hours in a room filled with conservatives theres only one possible outcome DJ13 Apr 2014 #13
Together, they summon Satan, who appears MannyGoldstein Apr 2014 #14
^^^ This ^^^ alittlelark Apr 2014 #20
Mark Twain did a similar experiment.... Bigmack Apr 2014 #15
They would be let out and go their ways Duer 157099 Apr 2014 #16
This is probably what would likely happen ... yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #22
A fairy suddenly appears Spirochete Apr 2014 #17
If there was a prize you would surely have won it yuiyoshida Apr 2014 #23
Hannity would Jamaal510 Apr 2014 #18
The bullet ridden bodies are taken to the morgue. The scene is too horrible to describe Zorra Apr 2014 #19
The Aristocrats. nt rrneck Apr 2014 #21
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