...People swim in those waters, maybe a sign ought to be posted stating the condition of the water from the dog feces runoff. As I see it, those that think Bull Creek is a DOG PARK would like to see signs that state "Enter park at your own risk....Dogs at large", or "Swim at your own risk, dog feces contamination in water", or even "Park your car, let your dogs loose...this is a DOG PARK....(we recommend you staying in your car, this place smells, and dog fights occur frequently".

After all these thousands of years, we still don't know how to eat?

Well, I think we do. My eating habits are like my exercise habits. Whenever I'm hungry, I eat--whatever I'm hungry for. I don't care what it's made out of, I really don't. I know the general rules of biochemistry, but I don't apply them in my eating habits because I figure my mouth knows better. And I exercise when I want to do something fun that requires my body. I'd never sit in a room with weights because I wouldn't think that would be fun. These people who sit on indoor bicycles--they ought to make the bicycle at least generate electricity.

That whole obsession with foods reflects the fact that most people don't know much biochemistry, and therefore they don't have any way of assessing the validity of somebody's five or 10 major food groups. The government spent millions of dollars to redefine the food groups, and now they have the food triangle--that whole weird thing.

My five major food groups are grease, sugar, salt, chocolate and alcohol. So a good power-breakfast is a chocolate donut and a margarita, or if I'm in a hurry, a Reese's peanut butter cup and a shot of tequila.

What would you like to eat for your final meal?

In order of time, I should have mentioned before, that having, in 1742, invented an open stove for the better warming of rooms, and at the same time saving fuel, as the fresh air admitted was warmed in entering, I made a present of the model to Mr. Robert Grace, one of my early friends, who, having an iron-furnace, found the casting of the plates for these stoves a profitable thing, as they were growing in demand.

To promote that demand, I wrote and published a pamphlet, entitled "An Account of the new-invented Pennsylvania Fireplaces; wherein their Construction and Manner of Operation is particularly explained; their Advantages above every other Method of warming Rooms demonstrated; and all Objections that have been raised against the Use of them answered and obviated," etc.

This pamphlet had a good effect. Gov'r. Thomas was so pleas'd with the construction of this stove, as described in it, that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending of them for a term of years; but I declin'd it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

An ironmonger in London however, assuming a good deal of my pamphlet, and working it up into his own, and making some small changes in the machine, which rather hurt its operation, got a patent for it there, and made, as I was told, a little fortune by it. And this is not the only instance of patents taken out for my inventions by others, tho' not always with the same success, which I never contested, as having no desire of profiting by patents myself, and hating disputes. The use of these fireplaces in very many houses, both of this and the neighbouring colonies, has been, and is, a great saving of wood to the inhabitants.

-Benjamin Franklin