Sometimes 6 pictures aren't worth 265 words in 9 sentences.

Compare this parody of a powerpoint presentation

    http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm

with

    Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
    continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
    proposition that all men are created equal.  Now we are engaged in
    a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so
    conceived and so dedicated can long endure.  We are met on a great
    battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of
    that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their
    lives that that nation might live.  It is altogether fitting and
    proper that we should do this.  But in a larger sense, we cannot
    dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.  The
    brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it
    far above our poor power to add or detract.  The world will little
    note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget
    what they did here.  It is for us the living rather to be
    dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here
    have thus far so nobly advanced.  It is rather for us to be here
    dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these
    honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
    they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly
    resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this
    nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that
    government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not
    perish from the earth.

-- 
Michael R. Wolf
    All mammals learn by playing!
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