No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger
Substitutes
Like unseen barter
Often make one
Sad
But smarter Burma Shave
1942
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams
Benjamin Franklin in popular culture Part 2 or 2
Franklin is one of the main inventors of Gregory Keyes' The Age of Unreason tetralogy.
A 1992 Saturday Night Live spoof of Quantum Leap, "Founding Fathers", had Franklin traveling through time with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to help modern day Americans with deficit reduction, only to find twentieth century reporters are only interested in scandal and sensationalism.
The science-fiction TV show Voyagers! had the main characters helping Franklin fly his kite in one episode and save his mother from a fictionalized Salem Witch Trial in the next episode.
"Julian McGrath," played by Cole Sprouse and Dylan Sprouse, appears as Franklin in a school play in the Adam Sandler comedy Big Daddy.
Franklin has a small part in the movie Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.
In an episode of the animated Dilbert series, Dilbert's garbageman revives the corpse of Franklin when Dilbert is facing an ethical dilemma regarding the voting process.
The time-travel card game Early American Chrononauts includes a card called Franklin's Kite which players can symbolically acquire from the year 1752.
Stan Freberg's comedic audio recording, Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America:
The Early Years, depicts all of Franklin's accomplishments as having been made by his young apprentice, Myron.
Beavis and Butthead once got into trouble after attempting to fly a kite in a thunderstorm, copying what they saw on an educational show about Franklin. The joke of the show was that the adults were blaming the evils of TV, not realizing the kids were emulating Franklin.
In the realm of Pirates of the Caribbean films "Benny" is taught his famous "key and kite trick" by Jack Sparrow.
The Grateful Dead song "Franklin's Tower" is named for Franklin, according to its author Robert Hunter.
Franklin appears in Fred Saberhagen's "The Frankenstein Papers", and part of the novel is written as letters to Franklin.
In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, McNinja's mentor in medical school was the clone of Franklin. In the story, the clone asks McNinja if he will assist him in a project to grant eternal life.
Often held but never touched, always wet but never rusts, often bites but seldom bit, to use me well you must have wit.
What am I?
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
There's none deceived but he that trusts
1736
"If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
