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* Adams' morose worry that for all his effort to make America free, his contributions would never be known: |
* Adams' morose worry that for all his effort to make America free, his contributions would never be known: |
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{{quote| '''Franklin''': Don't worry, John. The history books will clean it up.<br /> |
{{quote| '''Franklin''': Don't worry, John. The history books will clean it up.<br /> |
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'''Adams''': It doesn't matter. I won't be in the history books anyway, only you. Franklin did this and Franklin did that and Franklin did some other damn thing. Franklin smote the ground and out sprang... [[George Washington]], fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then electrified him with his miraculous lightning rod and the three of them - Franklin, Washington, and the horse - conducted the entire revolution by themselves.<br /> |
'''Adams''': It doesn't matter. I won't be in the history books anyway, only you. Franklin did this and Franklin did that and Franklin did some other damn thing. Franklin smote the ground and out sprang... [[George Washington]], fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then electrified him with his miraculous lightning rod and the three of them - Franklin, Washington, ''and'' the horse - conducted the entire revolution by themselves.<br /> |
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'''Franklin''': I like it. }} |
'''Franklin''': I like it. }} |
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* Pretty much everything Ben Franklin says. He was pretty much our nation's first [[Deadpan Snarker]]. |
* Pretty much everything Ben Franklin says. He was pretty much our nation's first [[Deadpan Snarker]]. |
Revision as of 12:44, 22 April 2014
- "But Mr. Adams."
- Combined moment of Awesome and Funny: "NEVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! NEVAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
- Also, "Mr. Morris. What in hell goes on in New York?!"
- "Are you calling me a madman, you... you fribble?!" (And the ensuing name-calling and bitch fight.)
- "LAWYER!"
- Made funnier by the fact that Adams actually was a lawyer.
- As was Dickinson.
- Also fribble is an actual word along with piddle, twiddle, pish posh, gay, and queer.
- Combined moment of Awesome and Funny: "NEVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! NEVAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
- Adams' morose worry that for all his effort to make America free, his contributions would never be known:
Franklin: Don't worry, John. The history books will clean it up. |
- Pretty much everything Ben Franklin says. He was pretty much our nation's first Deadpan Snarker.
Franklin: (to arriving delegate Dr. Lyman Hall) "What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen a Great Man before?" |
- For that matter, the New Brunswick dispatch itself.
- "There must be some mistake- I have an aunt who lives in New Brunswick." "You must tell her to keep up the good work!"
- For that matter, the New Brunswick dispatch itself.
- New York abstains.
- Lee's overly-enthusiastic attitude.
- Jefferson's initial failure to write the Declaration.
Adams: Do you mean to tell me that it is not yet finished? |
- "A NEETION OF BRRRRBARIANS!?"
- Adams realizing that Jefferson and his wife were having the 18th century equivalent of a booty call:
Adams: You mean they're going to... in the middle of the afternoon?? |