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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:12 PM
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Why Didn't Ben Franklin Sign the Delecaration?
Another poster made me curious about this.

After all, wasn't he as involved as anyone if not more so at the time?
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:13 PM
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1. Big Ben
Because he was flying his kite!!!
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:15 PM
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3. A Key To Con-Ed Won't Fly
Seriously, I'm curious....
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:15 PM
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2. He DID sign it.
Edited on Wed Sep-10-03 12:19 PM by WoodrowFan
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/
http://www.scsc.k12.ar.us/2000backeast/ENatHist/Members/WarnerL/page_4htm.htm
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:19 PM
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6. My Mistake
I look at that "John Hancock", remember everyone else that had a part in it and forget their names.

God...I sound like a potential Freeper!
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:15 PM
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4. Not sure where you are gettin your info
Ben Ben Franklin most assuredly signed the declaration of Independance.
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Ouabache Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:26 PM
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7. Yep, I saw it in the Musical
1776

He was there singing and danicing with the rest of 'em !!
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:32 PM
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8. Riff Raff
Have you notice how much Franklin looks like Riff Raff in "Rocky Horror"???
(singing)
Let's do, the Revolutionary War, AGAIN!!!
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 06:05 PM
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18. The fount of Founding Father's knowledge!
Lol. (I had no idea he was that limber!)
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:16 PM
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5. He did
Edited on Wed Sep-10-03 12:18 PM by Sequoia
but who can read all those signatures at one glance.
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:36 PM
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9. Thanks All
I need to look at my American History again before I reply to a right-wing post.

:yourock:
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:39 PM
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11. What Post?
You're welcome, but where was the ORIGINAL post??
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:49 PM
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13. Here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=312274

I missed the Musical but I don't get out much and work a lot.
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 01:11 PM
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14. You were the one that posted the erroneous information there also.
You stated the same thing in the thread you referenced. How were you responding to another poster?
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:39 PM
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10. 3rd or 4th grade (early 70s), one of my classmates
asked why Ben Franklin signed it "Benji" (note, this was around 200 years before that damn scruffy dog).

So I knew immediately that this could have been somebody trolling.

Thankfully, it wasn't.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 12:47 PM
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12. Not everybody signed it originally
Edited on Wed Sep-10-03 12:59 PM by Walt Starr
If I'm not mistaken, some even did not sign it during 1776.

Ben did sign it, though.
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 01:16 PM
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15. August 2, 1777
Finally ratified between the 13 Colonies as I recall.

What's the download speed of a guy on a horse traveling across the "New Nation" as compared to the Internet?

What's the "embarrasment" factor of a guy who can't recall facts and figures to counter Right-Wing arguements.

I think I'll lurk and learn for a while....
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youngred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-11-03 10:36 AM
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20. Only 2 people signed it on July 4, 1776
the rest signed it for years and years afterwards (the idea being if you were there you had the right to do it)
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chaumont58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 05:45 PM
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16. Genius Ben said something on the occasion that is still appropriate
"If we do not hang together on this, we shall certainly hang separately."

How truthful, even today.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 06:02 PM
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17. I'm glad to know he did sign it
But if he hadn't signed the Declaration, it was because he was out of town for the big Fourth of July weekend.

{Lame joke stolen wholesale from Stan Freberg, one of the funniest men on the planet.}
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 06:05 PM
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19.  .
Edited on Wed Sep-10-03 06:06 PM by VermontDem2004
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