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From YouTube: This Day in History - Felix Walker (February 25)

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"History is more or less bunk." - Henry Ford. While Ford had a valid point about living in the present, it's worth looking to the past and learning about Rep. Felix Walker, who in the early 1820's gained a bad reputation of "speaking for Buncombe."

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On februari 25th 1820, Western, North, Carolina representative Felix Walker delivered a rambling congressional speech that was so bad. It would create a new word for nonsense. The speech relating little to the topic at hand and Walker the reputation for speaking performance from then on his opinions were dismissed as buncombe or clunk.

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Almost 100 years later, Henry Ford would say: history is more or less fun. While it is important to live in the present. Perhaps we could all take a lesson from Felix Walker don't get caught speaking bunk.