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  I wish more scientists we more like Ben Franklin GogoJF <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-22 20:01 -0800
    Re: I wish more scientists we more like Ben Franklin Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 22:31 -0600
      Re: I wish more scientists we more like Ben Franklin Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-01-23 05:23 +0000
        Re: I wish more scientists we more like Ben Franklin benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 02:43 -0500
          Re: I wish more scientists we more like Ben Franklin Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-01-24 01:40 +0000
            Re: I wish more scientists we more like Ben Franklin GogoJF <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-23 20:17 -0800
        Re: I wish more scientists we more like Ben Franklin Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 09:01 -0600
        Re: I wish more scientists we more like Ben Franklin Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 07:11 +0100
      Re: I wish more scientists we more like Ben Franklin "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-01-22 22:17 -0800

#547394 — I wish more scientists we more like Ben Franklin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

He was so cool.

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#547398

On 1/22/16 10:01 PM, GogoJF wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
>
> He was so cool.
>

   Quite the lady's man.


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#547403

On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:31:00 -0600, Sam Wormley wrote:

> 
>    Quite the lady's man.
>

What's this?  Am I dreaming?

Wormley actually has responded to a post using his own paltry
words rather than relying on some copy-and-paste link.

But Wormley still disappoints.  His comment is inappropriate junk.

Ben Franklin is one of the most underrated scientists of all time.
His work, for its time, was quite innovative and advanced.  Not only
did he aid in establishing the authority of early American science
but he also gave the world the now ubiquitous concepts of "positive"
and "negative" charges.

If Ben Franklin were alive today, he would likely say to Wormley:
"Go fly a kite."

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#547431

On 01/23/2016 12:23 AM, Fabian Russell wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:31:00 -0600, Sam Wormley wrote:
>
>>
>>     Quite the lady's man.
>>
>
> What's this?  Am I dreaming?
>
> Wormley actually has responded to a post using his own paltry
> words rather than relying on some copy-and-paste link.
>
> But Wormley still disappoints.  His comment is inappropriate junk.
>
> Ben Franklin is one of the most underrated scientists of all time.
> His work, for its time, was quite innovative and advanced.  Not only
> did he aid in establishing the authority of early American science
> but he also gave the world the now ubiquitous concepts of "positive"
> and "negative" charges.
>
> If Ben Franklin were alive today, he would likely say to Wormley:
> "Go fly a kite."

I just learned that Thomas Jefferson was the creator of what today we 
call the modern archeology. He dug up a river bank and outlined the 
proper methodology for doing so to preserve the information there.

Naturally his ideas were totally ignored until relatively modern times.
(He probably had sex with male birds as well as slaves)

I find the Founding Fathers guys with an AMAZING amount of intelligence 
and ability. Look at the current Broadway play "Hamilton" for yet one 
more example.

Just look at the current crop of "leaders" and compare.
Even worse, look at the examples HERE! Gimme a break!


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#547691

On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 02:43:31 -0500, benj wrote:

> 
> I find the Founding Fathers guys with an AMAZING amount of intelligence 
> and ability. 
> 
> Just look at the current crop of "leaders" and compare.
> 

Exactly.

Contemporary leaders certainly lack, if not the intelligence, the acute
awareness shown by the Founding Fathers regarding the need to always
defend against the incursion of tyranny.  The reason for the Constitution
itself seems lost on the current crop of politicians.

This is why the NSA is given free reign.  Thomas Jefferson would have
bitterly opposed today's political decisions.

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#547715

On Saturday, January 23, 2016 at 7:41:36 PM UTC-6, Fabian Russell wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 02:43:31 -0500, benj wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I find the Founding Fathers guys with an AMAZING amount of intelligence 
> > and ability. 
> > 
> > Just look at the current crop of "leaders" and compare.
> > 
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> Contemporary leaders certainly lack, if not the intelligence, the acute
> awareness shown by the Founding Fathers regarding the need to always
> defend against the incursion of tyranny.  The reason for the Constitution
> itself seems lost on the current crop of politicians.
> 
> This is why the NSA is given free reign.  Thomas Jefferson would have
> bitterly opposed today's political decisions.

I just saw the new Lewis and Clark documentary on PBS which happened in the time of Jefferson's Presidency. Fascinating these founding fathers.

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#547476

On 1/22/16 11:23 PM, Fabian Russell wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:31:00 -0600, Sam Wormley wrote:
>
>>
>>     Quite the lady's man.
>>
>
> What's this?  Am I dreaming?
>
> Wormley actually has responded to a post using his own paltry
> words rather than relying on some copy-and-paste link.
>
> But Wormley still disappoints.  His comment is inappropriate junk.


   Actually it is true that Franklin was quite a lady's man.

   As far as Franklin's scientific contribution, there were a few,
   as noted here:
> http://www.math.tamu.edu/~stecher/489/Ben/science.shtml



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#547722

Dne 23/01/2016 v 06:23 Fabian Russell napsal(a):
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:31:00 -0600, Sam Wormley wrote:
> 
>>
>>    Quite the lady's man.
>>
> 
> What's this?  Am I dreaming?
> 
> Wormley actually has responded to a post using his own paltry
> words rather than relying on some copy-and-paste link.
> 
> But Wormley still disappoints.  His comment is inappropriate junk.
> 
> Ben Franklin is one of the most underrated scientists of all time.
> His work, for its time, was quite innovative and advanced.  Not only
> did he aid in establishing the authority of early American science
> but he also gave the world the now ubiquitous concepts of "positive"
> and "negative" charges.
> 
> If Ben Franklin were alive today, he would likely say to Wormley:
> "Go fly a kite."
> 
Rather to Fabian
"Stop speaking low about others, it makes you smaller."

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Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer )

Knowledge makes great men humble, but small men arrogant.

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#547411

"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>GogoJF wrote:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
>> He was so cool.
>>
"Sam Wormley" wrote:
> Franklin was Quite the lady's man.
> 
hanson wrote:
... & so are YOU, old pal Wormley, since you, the
<http://tinyurl.com/CC-AG-warmed-Wormley> is 
stuck & just can't  get off the fat there, in row two...
Enjoy... and thanks for the laughs... ahahahanson, 


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