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*NOTE* the following is a rough draft for a Family-Hour Skit you can do in your own home when you have overly-active-youthful-energy-types running wild, hopefully out of doors, since it's now officially summer time -- BUT TOMORROW IS THE FOURTH and no doubt there will be a vast demand for fun BBQ-in-the-park activities for the maddeningly energetic young people we have these days since spending so much time behind a computer screen most days makes for a great urge to burn off some of that hormones -- I mean, steam...TLDR...
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Question asked:  "Why don't you believe the Earth is flat?"

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Answer provided: Reasons, reasons, come to mind--How oft' you've gone and left behind--The clues profuse they'll do in time--But for the pres'nt we share your wine--As droves drive drunk they'll crash the line..............

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My ship never sailed off the edge!

We never even had to adjust course to avoid it (the edge).

None of the other sailors I’ve met have any stories of this either, and believe me...

...BELIEVE YOU ME, thousands of sailors would have tens of thousands of stories about it (Okay, for flattards, that means soldiers with an average of 10 stories each multiplied by a thousand soldiers answers in soldiers SQUARED stories when you keep track of units).

You couldn’t keep a secret like that for long.

The Default Seafaring Battle Tactic would be to drive someone else’s ship off the edge of the earth if you were anywheres near it!

The internet would be clogged with pictures of the edge where another continent is supposed to be, trash would be falling off the edge instead of floating around until it stinks - I mean sinks, people would be getting viking funerals in which their barge is set on fire and sent off the edge (that would be a lot of the pictures, I think), murders would be committed by sending people off the edge, hijacked planes would be flown past the edge if they were near it-this could go on forever ("Which, come to think of it, ain't such a bad idear, since the Chapter is next week all ready," said Bishop F.).

The point is, people are quick to proactively benefit from any guaranteed way of disposing of something they don’t want, and it’s hard to keep them quiet when something like that exists!

Besides that, there are orbiting satellites, airplanes, Physics, and other things I can directly observe to tell me it’s round.

Also my husband is a scientist and he laughs (like this: HE-HE--HA-HA--HO-HO) at the idea that you can convince thousands of people, who disprove each other’s work for a living, to all lie in unison (Now, for our next Exercise in Applied Linguistics, we'll all rehearse saying that entire sentence, Without the Laugh, in one breath. Then twice in one breath. Then, Adding the Laugh... *OUCH*!* WHY'D YOU HIT ME ON THE HAID LIKE THAT?).
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The internet would be clogged with pictures of the edge
The internet would be clogged with pictures of the edge where another continent is supposed to be

Trash would be falling off the edge
Trash would be falling off the edge instead of floating around until it stinks - I mean sinks
(off the edge instead of floating around -and around -and around -and around -.......)

People would be getting Viking Funerals
People would be getting Viking funerals in which their barge is set on fire and sent off the edge
(that would be a lot of the pictures, I think)

murders would be committed
murders would be committed by sending people off the edge,

hijacked planes would be flown
(hijacked planes would be flown past the edge)
((hijacked planes would be flown past the edge if they were))

Hijacked PLANES would be FLOWN PAST the EDGE if they were NEAR it-this could go on forever
(if they were near it-this could go on forever)
((hijacked planes would be flown past the edge if they were near it-this could go on forever))

If they were near it-this could go on forever-this could go on forever-
(this could go on forever this could go on forever)
((Forever - Forever - Forever - Forever - forever - forever ............................))

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(credit and appreciation freely

offered to Winonah Drake )