[CTRL] Fwd: 40479.gif

[Colleen Jones]

I remember once my mother waiting to trp me with "boy, have I got some
juicy gosspip for you"......all ears, I would stop in my tracks, and she
would say "well, Benjamin Franklin......"

Before she would finish the sentence, I would be out the door long gone.
But, this I believe is a pearl I found in one of my old friends "bread
and butter books"

"the venerale sage of Philadelphi (the city of Brotherly Love where the
cup runneth over) was responsible for a good hoax.  Using biblical
languge, he wrote "a parable of Brotherly Love".  It was accepted as an
unfamiliar portion of scripture, and this encouraged Ben to try
again...He wrote and printed a story on tolerance, and bound it into his
bible as Genesis 1.  Copies of his 'last chapter of Genesis' are still
in circulation today and avidly sought after as collector/s items."

This one of the reasons I liked Benjamin Franklin, even though he was al
alleged spy, Satanist, member of Hells Fire Club....can you imagine one
of the Elders of the day readidng Genesis 51 on at Sunday services,
while Poor Richard and his Almanac's creator sat in the pew.....

Well, I am going to let my kind and gentle pit bull out to mark her
territory, and continue reading my daily portion of the Bible, Genesis
51.

---

http://www.napsnet.com/food/40479.gif

---