“The only president of the United States who was never president of the United States,” as the Firesign Theater once called him, was born 302 years ago today (January 17). Hail to one of the most fascinating, down-to-earth, and likable Americans to have trodden the continent in recorded history.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BENJAMAN FRANKLIN!!! *pies with electricity pie*
That should make a spark! (Haw, haw.)
Happy 302nd, Ben!! *Pies* Wow, today a Franklin stove would be right handy
Red-tailed HAWK
y r there so few posts here?
*pies all ppl not here*
3-*cringes* uh, do you think you could actually type out words? so MB isn’t a cell-phone?
*pies Benjamin Franklin* *pies Benjamin Franklin’s son Thomas somebody-or-other who mapped the Gulf Stream*
*pies Ben Franklin*
*pies Ben Franklin as well*
Happy Birthday, O Presidential Should-Have-Been!
3-idk my bff jill!
Ben Franklin is my favorite person in American History. There was an article in Muse about him awhile ago… Maybe I’ll read it today.
8- a kid in my old school was in that commercial.
i think i read book about ben franklin
Happy Belated Birthday Benjamin!
*PIES*
8- I love that article!!!
Happy Birthday Ben!
Happy Birthday, Dr. Franklin!
Spymaster, oceanographer, paleontologist and so much more!
I once wrote a teaser for a Muse fanfiction featuring Ben Franklin prominently. I’ll post it here if anyone’s interested.
14- I’m interested.
Here it is. I might write more on it later, but it’ll probably be on the Muse Fanfiction thread, because Franklin only appears near the beginning.
In a totalitarian, F451-like future world, the last Muser alive steals a time machine and flees to the 18th century, bringing her prized collection of banned Carus Publishing magazines with her. But she is mortally wounded during her escape, and with her dying breath collapses on the doorstep of a certain Philadelphia printer with a predilection for electrical experiments, clutching an armful of back issues of Muse.
The printer sees the dates on the magazines, the strange clothes his deceased visitor is wearing, and (considerably later) discovers the wrecked machine, far beyond any technology in the world at the time, hidden nearby. The clincher is finding an article about himself, and one of his experiments- carried out successfully- that as far as he knows is still in the planning stages. Being a bright sort of chap, he puts two and two together and arrives at the incredible conclusion. In disbelief, he begins to examine the publications.
They are printed in a curiously corrupt form of English, and some of the things they refer to are beyond understanding, but many of the articles are both comprehensible and fascinating. Perusing the vast collection, he gains an understanding of the universe that would astonish any other man of his era.
The printer is, as has been said, no fool, and has heard the rumors spreading like wildfire through backstreets and boarding-houses, as well as the definite confirmations coming from far more reliable sources A revolution is coming, and he considers it his duty to aid his fellow countryman in whatever capacity he can, be it physical- or intellectual…
COME ON NOW!! CHANT!!! FRANKLIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
16-That’s really cool. Is the rest on the Fanfiction thread?
Happy Threeohtwo, Benjamin Franklin!
18- ‘Fraid not. I haven’t written any due to the fact that I’m already working on another Muse fanfic. But this one will appear once that one’s done. I’ve already got some of it plotted out. The main character is a young girl who lives in a radically different 19th-century USA and begins to hear a mysterious voice in her head.
16- Cool beans!
Hapy belated birthday, Ben!
I love the lyrics to songe that he wrote during the Revolutionary War. Has anyone ever heard “The Old soldiers of The King”? Okay, here, I’ll post it here.
The King’s own Regulars (1750, words by Ben Franklin)
Since you all must have singing and won’t be said nay,
How can I refuse when you beg and you pray?
I will sing you a song as the poet might say,
Of king Georges old soldiers that ne’er ran away.
We’re the old soldiers of the king,
and the king’s own regulars.
At Lexington we met with rebels one day,
we got ourselves up in our finest array.
Our heads bid us stand, and our hearts bid us stay.
But our legs were strong minded and took us away.
We’re the old soldiers of the king….etc.
We marched into Princeton with fife and with drums,
With muskets and cannons, with swords and with bombs.
This great expedition cost infinite sums,
but some underpaid doodles they cut us to crumbs.
We’re the old soldiers of the king….etc.
They fought so unfairly, from back of the trees,
If they’d only fought open we’d have beat them with ease.
They can fight with each other that way if they please,
But we don’t have to stand for such tactics as these.
We’re the old soldiers of the king….etc
It’s true that we turned, but that shouldn’t disgrace us,
We did it to show that the foe couldn’t face us.
And they’ve nothing to boast, it’s a very plain case,
Though we lost in the fight we came first in the race.
We’re the old soldiers of the king….etc
Ha ha!
Yes, Ben Franklin was very Muserly. Which will make this fanfic even more fun for me once I complete it.
21- *laughs*
21-Haha, that’s awesome.
HAW HAW! anyway there is this thing on the history channel, it had ben franklin with uh john Hancock i think and they had sparklers and fireworks, ben franklin wrote his name in the air with the sparkler (if you have never done that, you should see how cool it is) very fancy like, then John Hancock, finally george washington set em off!!!! they spelled happy 4th of JULY! of course that was on the 4th of July and they were having this big all day special about the Revolutionary war!!!!!
PEACE AND PIES FOR EVERYONE!
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Over the summer there was this play at the Guthrie called 1776.
HILARIOUS!!! Even though there was singing and dancing (which I normally hate on stage), it was HOURS of LAUGHING SO HARD YOUR GUT ACHES!!!
4- it is one!!!!!!!!
8- “i don’t kiss my best friend forever, jill”? WTF?
27 – No, MB isn’t a chatroom or a cell phone.
And “idk my bff jill” means “I don’t know, my best friend forever, Jill.” It’s off a TV commercial that everyone at my school seems to be quoting lately.
26 – My sister saw that this summer!
16- That is massively SWEET, man.
20- I haven’t heard that phrase except when I was at Tapawingo two summers again, that’s ah-mazing.
Sorry. I had to state my opinions.
Anyway: *using the time travel machine #16 invented..*
**PIES Ben Franklin!**
…Happy Belated Birthday?
I just failed. I read that as 32.