Your chance to write for morons.org!
We want to add one new volunteer staff writer each week for the next six weeks. Think you have what it takes to write for morons.org? Find out all about our writer search now!We at morons.org have discovered to our amazement that people were even more stupid in the early part of the twentieth century than they are now. While this comes at first as a shock, it is easily verified by gazing into the best time machine we have access to: weird, old books found buried deep in the morons.org cellar, underneath some old bottles of port.
Posted here you can find excerpts from some of these antique gems of prose. It is our belief that no violation of copyright will take place due simply to the age of the books. Full credit will still be given, of course.
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Because this section was getting totally out of control, we've subdivided it into several sections, by topic:
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