...the true statesman does not despise any wisdom howsoever lowly may be
its origin: in my boyhood I had always saved pennies, and contributed
buttons to the foreign missionary cause. The buttons would answer the
ignorant savage as well as the coin, the coin would answer me better than
buttons; all hands were happy, and nobody hurt.
- *A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court*

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> When somebody=C2=A0begins a statement with "With all due respect," you can
> =
> usually ignore the rest of it.=C2=A0- B. Clay Shannon
>
>       From: Jerry Vorpahl <[log in to unmask]>
>  To: [log in to unmask]
>  Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:35 AM
>  Subject: Clay, With all due respect, you're taking up way too much space
> o=
> n this forum. FYI: It's "Twainiac" not "Twainian".
>   =20
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 8:23 AM Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > What if Twain had been born a century later - same place, but in 1935?
> > Earl=3D
> >
> > y boyhood memories would have been of WWII, and he would still have been
> > re=3D
> >
> > latively young and I assume of draft age during the Vietnam War. Would he
> > h=3D
> >
> > ave dressed like Jimi Hendrix and gone to Woodstock? What would he have
> > wri=3D
> >
> > tten about Watergate?=3D20
> >
> > What about Space travel? Would he have been an early adopter of
> computers=
> ,
> > =3D
> >
> > social media, etc.?
> >
> >
> >
> > Perhaps he would have invested in Apple from the outset and been too
> > distra=3D
> >
> > cted with business matters to write much...
> >
> > If his life span remained the same, he would have died about the time
> > Obama=3D
> >
> >=C2=A0 took office.
> >
> > Of course, it's impossible to know the answers to these things for sure,
> > bu=3D
> >
> > t a Twainian with a talent for alternative history fiction might be able
> > to=3D
> >
> >=C2=A0 come up with some plausible and interesting scenarios.=3DC2=3DA0-
> B=
> . Clay
> > Shan=3D
> >
> > non
> >
> >
>
>
>   =20
>