Posted on 01/17/2006 5:16:05 PM PST by Pharmboy
The English are a rare breed indeed...file this under the same factor that had them bury Charles Darwin at a conspicuous spot in their national cathedral, Westminster Abbey!
A special ping for you, lad...
Happy B-Day Ben. We need more men like you in the world today.
Everyone needs to read the book 1776 its excellent and very telling.
The Washington Family Coat of Arms
(the original family name was D'Wessington; they were Norman/French who came to England in the 13th Century and settled near Newcastle upon Tyne. This is where the logo on the Washington, DC license plate comes from).
Please freepmail me to get ON or OFF this RevWar/Colonial History/Gen. Washington ping list...
BTTT
My family came from Kent,England in 1803 to the US and been here ever since. My loyalties are always with the US but I would also defend my ancestors homeland if need arose.
Where's the Christian outrage?
< /sarc?>
First time I got off the plane in England I felt like I was at home...and all i have is a bit of Scottish blood on my dad's side!
Yes...Ben liked the ladies, no question. But remember (and I am NOT making the case for immorality here) this was before Victorian times and before reborn Christianity took hold in the States. There were many randy men (and women) back then...life--for many--was one big shtupfest back then.
Better a randy Franklin, than John Adams. Adams is the kind of guy who makes me want to show up at family re-unions in a torn suit with two strippers, waving a half empty bottle of Remy...
No question you and I would have rather gone out drinking with Ben. But Adams was of Puritan stock, and had an amazing wife. They were quite happy...as was Franklin.
I had an amazing wife the Bain of my life, old John was P whipped,
Ben was also the "poor kid" out of the bunch...
I wish we had photos.
A link to the photo gallery:
http://www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org/site/sections/about_house/gallery.htm
Thank you, Bunny Slippers, appreciated.
Grrr .. I think I messed up. :(
That of course is if you consider the floor of a side chancel walkway a conspicuous spot.
How appropriate for the failed med school drop-out and the equally unaccomplished theologian, Darwin. I make it a formal practice to wipe my feet on Darwin's grave marker on every one of the many occasions I have had the privilege to visit the Abbey. Each of my children in fact have had the same pleasure as well.
Thankfully, Sir Isaac Newton, a real scientist, is buried and memorialized in an exquisite and conspicuously visible place in full view as one faces the altar on the left.
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