Yeah, but it gave me a chance to mouth off.
And then I forgot Ben Franklin!
Anybody who'll fly a kite in a thunderstorm deserves mention.
I visited Cambridge once; Newton to Hawking,
Reg is in good company.
73
H.

"Tdonaly" wrote in message
...
H. wrote,

Uh, Reg, Voltaire wrote "Candide".
Perhaps you were thinking of Volta, the Italian.
And you forgot Maxwell, Cavendish and Faraday.
All brits, all important to this stew.
Plus a host of others all the way back to Greece and before.
And if more here had gotten as far as Gibbs, we could just write down the
DE's and the BC's and be done in a few lines of math.
But it has been virtually entertaining, don't you think?
73 es gud dx om
H.
NQ5H


Reg likes to intentionally put things like that into his posts to
put us all on. If you read much Thackery, who made a good
living at one time writing about English con artists, you'll know
it's a part of the British national character.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH