Happy 176th birthday Mark Twain

[bicyclebuilder]

Google has got another theme. Mark Twain's birthday.
Happy birthday Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

[Lazaras]

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Now how do we celebrate this occasion?

[The Squire]

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Now how do we celebrate this occasion?

Do something funny with electricity!

“Yet another excitement awaited Tesla’s visitors at the laboratory. Tesla had been perfecting a mechanical oscillator, a sort of engine that would produce alternating current of a high frequency. The inventor had noticed an interesting effect of the machine: it produced significant vibrations. Tesla wondered if these vibrations might have therapeutic or health benefits, and one day when Mark Twain was at his lab the author asked if he might experience these vibrations himself.

As the story goes, Mr. Twain stood on a platform of the machine while Tesla set the oscillator into operation. Twain was enjoying himself greatly and exclaimed: ‘This gives you vigour and vitality.’ After some time Tesla warned the writer that he should come down, but Twain was having fun and he refused. Tesla again insisted, but Twain stayed on the machine for several minutes more until, suddenly, he exclaimed: ‘Quick, Tesla. Where is it?’ Tesla directed his friend to the restroom. Twain had experienced first hand what had been known to the laboratory workers for some time: the laxative effect of the machine’s vibrations.”

Found here

http://www.teslasociety.com/famousfriends.htm

[Capt. Dirigible]

There's an American academic who visits the library here every couple of years for a week or so of research and he's the dead spit of Mark Twain. Big curly mop of silver-grey hair and a matching walrus moustache! The other staff refer to him as 'Gepetto' but he looks more like Twain! Next time he's in I'm going to ask him if he's ever told of the resemblance. I'm sure, given the (Amercian) academic circles he must move in, that he must have.

[Evelyn Adler]

There's an American academic who visits the library here every couple of years for a week or so of research and he's the dead spit of Mark Twain. Big curly mop of silver-grey hair and a matching walrus moustache! The other staff refer to him as 'Gepetto' but he looks more like Twain! Next time he's in I'm going to ask him if he's ever told of the resemblance. I'm sure, given the (Amercian) academic circles he must move in, that he must have.

Hmm... I wonder if that Tesla machine had unforeseen side effects (other than the hilarious ones), and that Gentlemen doesn't just resemble Mark Twain...

[Capt. Dirigible]

There's an American academic who visits the library here every couple of years for a week or so of research and he's the dead spit of Mark Twain. Big curly mop of silver-grey hair and a matching walrus moustache! The other staff refer to him as 'Gepetto' but he looks more like Twain! Next time he's in I'm going to ask him if he's ever told of the resemblance. I'm sure, given the (Amercian) academic circles he must move in, that he must have.

Hmm... I wonder if that Tesla machine had unforeseen side effects (other than the hilarious ones), and that Gentlemen doesn't just resemble Mark Twain...

Cue 'Twilight Zone' music....

[Lazaras]

I'd like ot think Mr Twain was actually gone for a split moment our time, but in is perspective he had eons of adventures across time and dimensions.


Then had to go potty.

[Guinevere Meander]

Here here!

Now how do we celebrate this occasion?

paint a fence, take a riverboat ride, smoke a pipe, rest in a hammock and enjoy boyhood memories some of us wish we had.

And never forget to look at real life as it passes right in front of our eyes with the greatest scene of humor we can muster.

[walkthebassline]

I find it fascinating that Mark Twain wanted his memoirs sealed for 100 years after his death.