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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsBenjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was born on this day in 1706. Happy Birthday Ben!
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
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tinymontgomery
Apr 2012
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GoneOffShore
(17,342 posts)1. Beer is god's way of telling us he loves us and wants us to be happy.
tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)2. I'll drink to that.
lastlib
(23,320 posts)3. It's nature's de-fragging tool.....
Binary--it's easy as 1-10-11!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)4. My favorite founding father.
Wise, funny, a polymath, a philosopher, and an all-round cool guy. to Ben F.!
Scout
(8,624 posts)5. what's the joke? Ben's birthday is January 17...
what am i missing?
tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)6. Whoops, thanks for the catch
This was the day he passed away. Poor attention to detail on my part this time.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)7. /snicker
Happy Death Day, Ben!!!
I do shit like that all the time. My eyes don't work well, anymore, so sometimes words disappear. A few minutes ago, I couldn't figure out why people would go surfing after they got laid. Usually, folks just have a smoke and a nap...or another round. If you have enough energy to surf, you're doing it wrong.