[Northkeep] Speaking of Herbs...

[Jennifer Carlson]

Franklin had two things that rise above physical appearance: savvy and money.  If you've ever read his autobiography, you know that he was a public relations master - he once, when looking for a job, walked around with a loaf of bread under his arm and looking like he had somewhere important to go.  Sounds silly, but it made him look like he had a job and was busy, which made him an attractive candidate for employment (it being easier to find a job when you already have one - or look like you do).  After a successful career as a printer, he got the brilliant idea of selling franchises for printing newspapers: for a lump sum and then  percentage, he set up a printer with equipment and training.  He got stinking rich this way.  Think of him as the Bill Gates of the New World.

 

When you possess charm and have a fat wallet, being old, paunchy, bald just don't matter.

 

 

Talana
 
> From: Kevinkeary at aol.com
> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:32:48 -0400
> To: northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Speaking of Herbs...
> 
> I'm aware of all that. The statement I was replying to said "I look at his 
> picture and wonder..." and went on to speculate his 'ladies' needed 
> chemical bolstering to participate. I suggested that he may have once been more 
> attractive than his late-in-life portraits indicate, and counter-snarked that 
> his 'competition' in France might not have been the manliest of men -- and 
> I really expected Facon or JP to object to -that- rude jest...
> No doubt his well-earned reputation, for intellect, wittiness, and, ah, 
> flexibility also helped. But mentioning that would have watered down the dig.
> 
> 
> In a message dated 6/22/2010 9:52:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
> talana1 at hotmail.com writes:
> 
> 
> Um, Kevin, Ben Franklin was what is delicately known as a roue. A 
> Lothario. There was no competition. Once he got to the French court, the 
> noblewomen fell over themselves to be the first to get his coonskin cap off. 
> Franklin was notorious for enjoying what the Good Lord gave him: in fact, his 
> son, the Royal Governor of New Jersey, was not the product of marriage.
> 
> Age, corpulence, and lack of hirsuteness did not stand in his way.
> 
> 
> 
> Jennifer
> 
> Talana died long before Ben Franklin was born, but would have thought he 
> was a hoot.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > From: Kevinkeary at aol.com
> > Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:31:45 -0400
> > To: northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org
> > Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Speaking of Herbs...
> > 
> > Well, I'm sure he wasn't ALWAYS old, fat and bald. The Tengri know *I* 
> > wasn't.
> > And when he was an ambassador, he was competing with French courtiers.
> > Kevin
> > 
> > 
> > In a message dated 6/22/2010 7:24:19 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
> > aoife at cableone.net writes:
> > 
> > Snort! Yep...I look at his picture and wonder. Maybe you just had to 
> > meet him
> > in person. Wonder who took the stuff....him or the ladies?
> > 
> > On Tue Jun 22 21:13 , Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com> sent:
> > >
> > >What you didn't know that brains were sexy? You know Ben Franklin and 
> > all?
> > >
> > >Oh, wait, that's BEING a sage...
> > >
> > >M/D
> > > 
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