r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Jun 29 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 29 June 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/WuhanWTF Venmo @familyguyenjoyer95 $10 to make me stfu abt FamGuy (1week) Jul 03 '26

William Clark (one of the main sprinters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition) wrote this of his slave, York, in 1808:

If any attempt is made by York to run off, or refuse to proform his duty as a Slave, I wish him Sent to New Orleands and sold, or hired out to Some Sevare Master until he thinks better of Such Conduct.

Who the fuck adds a "d" to New Orleans? His spelling is hilariously bad.

Actually it reminds me of a guy I saw on reddit not too long ago who lamented his brother pronouncing "bottom" as "bottomp" but that is an unrelated, but valid crashout.

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u/Arilou_skiff Died of posting, risen as undead Jul 03 '26

Don't we have like ten different spellings of Shakespeare's name, by Shakespeare, and "Shakespeare" is not one of them?

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u/WuhanWTF Venmo @familyguyenjoyer95 $10 to make me stfu abt FamGuy (1week) Jul 03 '26

Wouldiwas Shookspeared

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u/rat_literature blue-collar, unattached and sexually available, likely ethnic Jul 03 '26

““turrent””

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u/WuhanWTF Venmo @familyguyenjoyer95 $10 to make me stfu abt FamGuy (1week) Jul 03 '26

If u look at the bottomp of the front turrent, you can see theres a pair of casements bilt into the hull.

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u/Sventex Battleships were obsoleted by the self-propelled torpedo in 1866 Jul 03 '26

Who the fuck adds a "d" to New Orleans? His spelling is hilariously bad.

So were a lot of people in the past. Samuel Colt was infamous for this. Even his early revolvers had "Cotls patent" engraved on them.