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'''A Hundred Years Ago''' was a poem written by [[Rodrick Heffley]] for an essay that [[Mr. Huff]], the history teacher at [[Westmore Middle School]], assigned. When the power went out at the Heffley residence, Rodrick sold this poem, which he wrote in middle school, for $20,000 in "Mom Bucks," or $200 in real money. Unfortunately, this trade had two consequences; the first was that Rodrick failed the essay due to it being a poem, not an essay, and the second was that Greg paid Rodrick in "fake" Mom Bucks- money he stole from a board game at Rowley's house rather than money he earned. [[Susan Heffley|Susan]] found out and immediately punished the two of them for cheating the system.
'''"A Hundred Years Ago"''' is a poem written by [[Rodrick Heffley]] for an essay that [[Mr. Huff]] assigned. In ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid (online)|''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' (online)]]'' and ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules]]'', when the power goes out at the Heffley residence, Rodrick sells this poem to [[Greg Heffley|Greg]] for 20,000 in [[Mom Bucks]]. Greg reviews the assignment on the bus ride to school, noticing that it is a poem and not an essay; he decides to not turn it in.


== Poem ==
==Poem==
[[File:A Hundred Years Ago.jpg|thumb|In the book]]
[[File:See me.png|thumb|In the online version]]
===Book and online version===
Sometimes I sit and wonder<br>
About stuff I don't know<br>
Like what the heck the earth was like<br>
A hundred years ago.


<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">TURING GEARS</span></p>
Did cavemen ride on dinosaurs?<br>
Did flowers even grow?<br>
Well we could guess but that was back<br>
A hundred years ago.


<i>Sometimes I sit and wonder<br />
I wish they built a time machine<br>
How people made gears turn together<br />
And they picked me up to go<br>
And other stuffs that I don't know<br />
To check out what the scene was like<br>
Like who made the first gear who was clever.</i>
A hundred years ago.<br>


<i>Did it take millions of years to complete the invention?<br />
Did giant spiders rule the earth?<br>
Did they even take a break?<br />"Crrrrrrr...TING!" It would sound while they ran.<br />
Were deserts filled with snow?<br>
If I don't take a break from gears, I will have a head-ache!</i>
I wonder what the story was<br>
 
A hundred years ago.
<i>I wish I could interview the ancient Chinese who created them<br />
And see the silver gears that look like small fans<br />
And see them hold hands with their family<br />
</i>As around and around they ran.
 
<i>Gears are cool<br />But sometimes, they make you a fool.<br />
A really, really useful tool </i><i><br />
</i>A really, really useful tool.
 
Written by Maheen Thakur, Tokyo, Japanhttps://sites.google.com/site/thakurmaheenpoemscom/
 
=== In the movie ===
Sometimes I sit and wonder
 
About stuff I do not know
 
 
Like, what the earth was like a hundred years ago
 
 
 
 
Did cavemen ride on dinosaurs?
 
 
Did flowers even grow?
 
 
Did spiders rule the earth?


===Movie version===<br>
Sometimes I sit and wonder<br>
About stuff, I do not know<br>
Like, what the earth was like<br>
A hundred years ago.


Did cavemen ride on dinosaurs?<br>
Did flowers even grow?<br>
Did spiders rule the earth?<br>
Were deserts filled with snow?
Were deserts filled with snow?


There were no books or humans<br>
So how are we to know<br>
What the earth was like<br>
A hundred years ago.


There were no books or humans
[[Category:Poems]]
 
 
So how we're we to know
 
 
What the earth was like a hundred years ago.
 
== Trivia ==
 
*This poem is logically impossible. Rodrick described either scenery that might have happened at the ''beginning'' of the Earth, rather than events that happened in the 1900s, or nonsensical things such as "giant spiders ruling the Earth." It would have made more logical sense if Rodrick had titled this poem "A ''Million'' Years Ago."
*The poem from the movie is slightly different than this one from the book.
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Latest revision as of 06:20, 27 March 2023

"A Hundred Years Ago" is a poem written by Rodrick Heffley for an essay that Mr. Huff assigned. In Diary of a Wimpy Kid (online) and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, when the power goes out at the Heffley residence, Rodrick sells this poem to Greg for 20,000 in Mom Bucks. Greg reviews the assignment on the bus ride to school, noticing that it is a poem and not an essay; he decides to not turn it in.

Poem

In the book
In the online version

Book and online version

Sometimes I sit and wonder
About stuff I don't know
Like what the heck the earth was like
A hundred years ago.

Did cavemen ride on dinosaurs?
Did flowers even grow?
Well we could guess but that was back
A hundred years ago.

I wish they built a time machine
And they picked me up to go
To check out what the scene was like
A hundred years ago.

Did giant spiders rule the earth?
Were deserts filled with snow?
I wonder what the story was
A hundred years ago.

===Movie version===
Sometimes I sit and wonder
About stuff, I do not know
Like, what the earth was like
A hundred years ago.

Did cavemen ride on dinosaurs?
Did flowers even grow?
Did spiders rule the earth?
Were deserts filled with snow?

There were no books or humans
So how are we to know
What the earth was like
A hundred years ago.

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