What goes around comes around

[Mason]

I got this in an email today and thought it was worth passing along. Read and enjoy

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His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."
"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.
"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.
"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of."

And that he did. Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

[gamefreak777]

wow thats cool, and some people don't believe in fate or destiny. I sure do because I'm cool. I believe that major paths are given to us but we have free will and can take it or take a different path.

[Norgus]

Thats pretty cool for what I can only make out to be chainmail :p

[Ifrit]

Very nice story, u sure its true?

[Schutzstaffel]

/me imagines Winston Churchill drowning in a bog.

hehehe..

[MasterOfGravity]

morale mails is the best thing ever.

cool stuff. Maybe some wiggy wihggy about it though

[Megahertzz]

that email is very inspirering it sorta makes you feel good

[Megahertzz]

yeah its a real shame its fake.oh well

[Mason]

Originally posted by Del_Boy
Nice story, fake though of course.
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/fleming.htm

Pfft, you're no fun.

[Dingy]

Originally posted by Del_Boy
Nice story, fake though of course.

maison's right, have fun dude, everything doesn't have to be factually right, you know:p Nice though, it's true, life is a boomerang, MasJ, ring a bell?

[Megahertzz]

i like those urban legends like that!

[Megahertzz]

and yes i fell for it del boy heh heh heh
hey its my 69th post!
ok my immaturity is showing now lol

[Drageuth]

I dun care if it's fake or not. Whoever started the mail didn't have the intend of being completely true to the facts, obviously, since it wouldn't be that hard to find information like this in a biography. What the intent was was to show how a good deed may perhaps benefit you later in life.

[((KvN))]

At least you open to junk email, I wouldn't dare, just incase of a virus. I didn't quite get it though........... someone tell me, man, I'm slow.

[Drageuth]

The father of the guy who invented penicillin saved Winston Churchill's life when he was a kid. In return, Churchill's father offered to pay for the man's son's education. This son later went on to discover penicillin, which later saved Churchill's life when he was critically ill with something.