For Stargazer

danktat · #1 (**permalink**) 03-26-2007, 08:05 PM

I did this a few weeks ago and figured you would get a kick out of it. It is taken from one of the many "props" I use as size references in some of my snake pictures....I am sure you will recognize it...lol

Figured I would post that up for you since you always comment on it

JuliusSqueezer · #2 (**permalink**) 03-26-2007, 08:44 PM

Ben Franklin was pretty cool and one of my favorite historical figures. I love him and hate him...here's why.

His role in the American revolution is seldom adequately told mostly because he wasn't here fighting it. He was in France fighting it in a much different way. But his role was as important or possibly more than anyone else that got all the credit. If not for Ben, We would almost certainly have lost the war and would have the queen of England on our money today. Heck...for all we know, we might even be speaking English!

While Washington and Paul Revere and others were doing their thing on the battlefields, Ben Franklin went to France. He was a hero there for inventing electricity. They had Ben Franklin dolls everywhere and all sorts of Ben memorabilia. Women screamed and flocked him like the bloody Beatles rolled into town. He was so popular, that when he went to King Louis to ask for help funding and fighting the British, King Louis eventually caved and went against everything he believed in and helped overthrow another king. I don't believe any other delegate could have ever talked him into this. 90+ % of the guns, cannons and ammunition we fought with in the revolutionary war was from France. They actually had more men fighting on our battlefields than we did too...so remember that the next time you bash France for their war record. Sure we get them out of a lot of crap...but they helped us be who we are now in a very big way.

Why I hate him? Day light savings time was all his idea. ARRRRRRRRRRRGH

hunters327 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-26-2007, 09:55 PM

Nice artwork Dank.

VoodooChile · #4 (**permalink**) 03-26-2007, 09:57 PM

That is a good job!

monkeykoder · #5 (**permalink**) 03-26-2007, 10:47 PM

Like I always say the only war France ever won was the American Revolution...

danktat · #6 (**permalink**) 03-27-2007, 04:48 AM

Not sure that the tattoo was all that deep....lol....just took it off the bill and tattooed it (although the signature came from the constitution). I suppose it is a reasonable forgery considering the medium...lol

Stargazer · #7 (**permalink**) 03-28-2007, 02:12 AM

Well, I don't actually HAVE enough off the green stuff to know which bill he came off of, but I'm guessing it's a hundred, since that's the one your snakes love the best! I think you need a tattoo of Jack Daniels on the other leg though (I think that was another prop?). hee hee

danktat · #8 (**permalink**) 03-28-2007, 03:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Stargazer

Well, I don't actually HAVE enough off the green stuff to know which bill he came off of, but I'm guessing it's a hundred, since that's the one your snakes love the best! I think you need a tattoo of Jack Daniels on the other leg though (I think that was another prop?). hee hee

Lol....I will keep that in mind and maybe one of these days I will get to tattoo a bottle as well...lol...it is popular enough that I am sure I can talk someone into it.

By the way...I am not sure if it was clear but I did not "recieve" that tattoo I "gave" it

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