I love 'em both. I have to go with Franklin.

They're both crap compared to Yogi.

Ace wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:

Ace wrote:I can't see how this isn't a complete matter of taste.

Isn't everything a matter of taste?

Value Relativist!!!

Is that good or bad?

It's a close race, but I'd have to go with Twain, because he was smart and funny as hell.

Commenting on an opera he'd attended, Twain said, "There were sounds, the likes of which have not been heard since the night the orphanage burned."

excellent thunderdome mon-sewer Sup...

and Ace said it best about it being a matter of taste...and with that i'll give up to Twain...he had a much better flair for being oh-so-quotable...i find him warmer than Franklin...

i admire the hell out of Franklin and his achievements but Twain has an accessability about him...

Twain really resonates with me...

As my old man hails from Louisiana, Missouri--about 45 miles from Hannibal--I have to go with Twain. For the first 15 years of my life, the Ralph Family Reunion was held in Mark Twain State Park. Every year, the kids were rounded up and taken through the very cave that appears in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which was emphasized by the tour guide pointing out various geologic blobs that were supposed to represent "Injun Joe's coffee cup," etc.

Sometime in my teens, they banned alcohol at the park, so the reunion was moved over to the Hannibal Gun Club for a few years before my great aunt Ginny built a house down on Mark Twain Lake, where we have it now.

Besides, are you really gonna put Poor Richard's Almanac up against Life on the Mississippi or Huck Finn. I doubt it.

Ben Franklin is about as good as the best old dude in any sample of about 25,000 people. That's pretty good.

Mark Twain is one the greatest writers in American history.

This is like comparing a solid bar band with Sabbath. Shit isn't close at all.

vockins wrote:Ben Franklin is about as good as the best old dude in any sample of about 25,000 people. That's pretty good.

Yeah, I really admire all those old dudes' experiments with electricity 'n stuff.

Ace wrote:

vockins wrote:Ben Franklin is about as good as the best old dude in any sample of about 25,000 people. That's pretty good.

Yeah, I really admire all those old dudes' experiments with electricity 'n stuff.

If you've got a great Ben Franklin quote about electricity, I'd love to read it.