Hello Miles!

09 Nov 04 05:22, Miles Maxted wrote to Douglas Connor:

 MM> G'morning Douglas,

 MM>> Who's your best President of all time ?   I favour Ben Franklin -
 MM>> a real multi-tasking fellow....
 DC>> I had'nt given it much thought realy.
 DC>> but Franklin was a hands on type person for sure:)
 DC>> he even has a hardware store chain named afer him.
 DC>> as for guts I guess flying a kite in a lightning storm takes
 DC>> some:) eather that or a lack of good sense.

 MM> Mmmmm - and charted the physics of static electricity thereby -
 MM> not to mention inventing lightning conductors. But then there's
 MM> his discovery of franklinite (a natural iron-zinc spinel), his
 MM> bi-focal glasses, a range of catheters and the like - all the
 MM> while able to both head the budding USA government, help compose
 MM> its Constitution and represent the lot abroad in Europe.
Hmmm you definetly know him better than I.
I sometimes wonder what kind of atmospere a tavern or pub that
contained the "founding fathers" would be like.
They were all so different and for the most part only brought
togather by a hatered of the king and his taxes.

 MM> Did you know that he and the French scientist, Lavoisier
 MM> (discoverer of oxygen) were commissioned by the last French
 MM> monarch to determine the truth of Mesmer's claims that magnetism
 MM> affected mammals ?
No.

 MM> And that their experiments proved absolutely that there were no
 MM> such effects,  and have been validated by every repetition of
 MM> their experimental approach every since ?
Ok I can believe a normal amount, but is it possible to test
for the lack of it? or An amount so high that other energys
are canceled out?

 MM> Not that that history or science stops the great magnetic
 MM> bed/bracelet/amulet cons of today....
Yea you can buy them at most any convenience store here.
I've yet to hear of anyone that found they had to wear it or else.

 MM> Not bad for an apprenticed printer and journalist, methinks.
yep


Douglas

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