Benjamin Franklin is 300 years old today!

[Laisrean]

Read about this fascinating founding father here:

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

Oh, and happy Birthday Ben!:blowcandl

[Meadhbh]

And he doesn't look a day over 250.

[Little Billy]

"Benjamin Franklin is 300 years old today!"

...and STILL chasing everything in a skirt!

[Toby Stimpson]

Happy birthday Benjamin...unfortunatly you know what this means...those years of plastic surgery won't keep you from being ignored by the government becasue Im sure the few gold pieces you have in your pocket are now worth nothing...but we can always ship you into a middle income older seniors home where you can live the rest of your life in harmony, while paying your own medical bills and eventually being taken off the resperator...ooo how unlike post Colonial America the US has become *shakes head*.

Tobias

[Derestanne]

Here I am in Philadelphia and this City has gone looney tunes with Franklin's 300th!

Ben Franklin impersonators (many of us here are saying thay can all go fly a Kite), Ben Franklin exhibits, talk about renaming Amtrak 30th Street Station "Ben Franklin Station", tourists all over coming to take pictures, buy cheap trinkets and hang out in philadlephia clubs dressed like colonialists and walking american flags.

Franklin was correct when he said:

"Fish and Visitors stink in three days!"

[omar]

I read the life of old Ben last summer. He got rich writing Poor Richards Almanac & ritered to France & lift his wife here.