Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:39:48 -0500
From: Eva Whitley <eva.whitley at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Got your vocabulary right here....was: Re: The New
 Yorker on Battlestar Galactica
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

<snippety snip>

>In other news, if by some odd chance you should have occasion to use
>electricity today, or to wear bifocals, take a moment to give thanks
>to Ben Franklin, who turns 300 today.  He's also celebrated as the
>father of cryonics.  And of Daylight Saving Time.  In his spare time,
>he founded the Post Office.
>
Hmmm. I could fire up the stove...no, wait, I left it at my old place.
Oh, well, guess I'll just go fly a kite. (Or walk a mile and a half to
Franklin High School.) --Eva Whitley